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Dr. Nana Pratt's Story Part 2. From Personal to National: The War and the Women's Movement in Sierra Leone
The Second part of Dr. Nana Pratt's conversation with me focuses on the evolution of the Sierra Leone Women Movement as she recalls it
She starts her narrative with her attendance at a workshop on Women Organizing for Change as perhaps when the idea for organizing as a collective first started for her.
She explains that women had been organising to address tensions during elections in the seventies and eighties and identifies key organizations like The YWCA in which women were active as educationalists.
Dr. Pratt describes the structures of the organizations and groups as well as some of the women in leadership. The main tool of operations by the women's groups was advocacy with the authorities and the international community to change public policy and action. The description and dynamics between and among the Women's groups is fascinating and explains why women were such good influencers of decisions by successive Governments before, during and after the conflict in Sierra Leone. She concludes part two with how rebels started to target activist women, leading her to flee Sierra Leone in a dangerous barge and travelled to the Gambia and what that journey was like.
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By Black Noize IncThe Second part of Dr. Nana Pratt's conversation with me focuses on the evolution of the Sierra Leone Women Movement as she recalls it
She starts her narrative with her attendance at a workshop on Women Organizing for Change as perhaps when the idea for organizing as a collective first started for her.
She explains that women had been organising to address tensions during elections in the seventies and eighties and identifies key organizations like The YWCA in which women were active as educationalists.
Dr. Pratt describes the structures of the organizations and groups as well as some of the women in leadership. The main tool of operations by the women's groups was advocacy with the authorities and the international community to change public policy and action. The description and dynamics between and among the Women's groups is fascinating and explains why women were such good influencers of decisions by successive Governments before, during and after the conflict in Sierra Leone. She concludes part two with how rebels started to target activist women, leading her to flee Sierra Leone in a dangerous barge and travelled to the Gambia and what that journey was like.