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As you know "A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous" -Coco Chanel
So lemme tell you tales of our legendary classy women;
Once upon a time,
She lived as if she had nothing, yet she possessed everything
At the point of man's peril, she was there to deliver them
She gave unto them a beacon
A beacon of hope
That hope was man's salvation - Call her Mary
Again when the Empire of Ashanti was under attack,
When fearless warriors cowered in the face of war,
it was I, Yaa Asantewaa, who led the redemption fight
Efo accords me 'Nana Yaa Kyeretwie'
Call me a Mother, a Nun & a Saint from Calcutta but before all that -I am a woman
The woman Mother Teresa
I seem to remember a fair maiden carrying a lamp
She sailed through rooms of wailing soldiers
With each touch she nursed back to life
The souls of half dead men
Men who had heard nothing but the battle sounds of Cremean war
Men who had seen nothing but ghosts of the dead
They knew no peace
Till her touch brought peace
She was a 'Night -Angel'
I bear the accolade "Africa's first female president" to have fought unemployment, national debt, and Ebola.
You'd understand why I earned 2011 Nobel Peace Prize -Sirleaf Johnson
From biblical Esther, Mary & Ruth to Yaa Asantewaa, Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie,Ellen Johnson Sirleaf- common denominator is "we are WOMEN"
Before that we were "girls" with dreams, today we stand tall as 'WOMEN with VISION'
To the everyday African woman, the modern day Ghanaian woman & the cosmopolitan woman
AYEKOO! to us as strong women: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them - Unknown
If you disagree, which I doubt, then listen to Nelson Mandela " Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression"
#Each4Equal
#IWD2020
#WetheWomen; Brave &Bold, Brawn &Beauty
#SDG
#GenerationEquality
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