Emerging Echoes

Emerging Echoes

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Complete Mon, Oct 30, 20236m

Poetry

Tagsafrica empowerment female femaledignity feminism

"Emerging Echoes" is a poetry collection that shines a light on the struggles and triumphs of women and girls, especially in Africa. Through a blend of lamentation and hope, the poems explore the realities of gender-based violence, inequality, and injustice. Each verse is a call for change, for a world where women and girls are treated with dignity and respect. Equality the say, Equality the word says Where is it?Or am i blind. Look around you, The woman is being abused The girl child is being victimised The year before it was rape and gender based violence. Last year it was teenage pregnancies and the blesser syndrome . Now it is drug abuse and immorality. The collection is more of a lamentation for equality,justice,respect,love and peace.

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