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My Sister Is Not Too Heavy: Building strong movements in Kenya

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Nyambura Ngugi reflects on the AWID 2005 Forum discussions in general and around the video ‘My Sister Is Not Too Heavy: Building strong movements’. The video is about the values and strategies that Kenyan women activists feel are required to build a strong women's movement.

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  1. The Women's Movement refers to a collective of individual feminist activists; grassroots women's rights activists; community-based organizations; women's rights organizations; women's groups and others who work toward the equality of women.

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  • Msimang, S (2003) ‘HIV/AIDS, Globalization and the International Women's Movement’, Gender and Development 11(1): 109–113

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Ngugi, N. My Sister Is Not Too Heavy: Building strong movements in Kenya. Development 49, 124–126 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100214

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