literature to articulate how social and biological epidemics are unbiased of economic and social position. More importantly, the author has been able to capture how androcentrism in modern African societies has evolved, and how women unconsciously continue to enable the very system that seeks to oppress them.
Nyathi further unpacks different forms of female friendship and solidarity in cloaked oppressive places. She explores the silent spaces occupied by gender based violence,
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marital rape, choice (dis)ability and HIV/AIDS among middle class and upper class women; women who consider themselves empowered. She cleverly employs popular
There is a thin line between victimhood and empowerment in Nyathi’s book. And she cunningly leaves it to the readers to decide where to draw that line. - WANJIRU WAICHIGO NJOGU Pics from book launch held in 2012. All images in this article courtesy of S. Nyathi
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