THE Council for Churches in Africa (CCA) says the African culture should be urgently revived as it had been eroded over the years by the love of everything Eurocentric.
Speaking during a Women’s International Conference hosted by the CCA in Bulawayo this week under the theme The Ezer Women Unleashed, president of Ghana’s Asaase Yaa Awakening Centre, Evelyn Warlson Annan, bemoaned the loss of African culture in women.
“For so many years, the perspective of African culture in nature in our women has been deserted because we have adopted a lot of European’s thoughts and ideologies,” she said.
“Over the years, we have lost everything that we could identify as the way of grooming in nature in our African women.”
Global Women of Victory president Victoria Mulube from Lusaka, Zambia, said this is one way of empowering African women.
“We want to put in the women the God-given potential to realise the God-given potential in their life so that they can know how to handle their homes,” Mulube said. “When you empower a woman, you are empowering the entire nation, the entire Africa.”
CCA Zimbabwe Women’s Fellowship president Faith Blessing also shared her insights, saying: “This is an annual event which happens every year. So we have just unleashed it here in Zimbabwe as the first international conference in the country.”
The conference, attended by delegates from different parts of the world, was aimed at empowering women at different levels in society on understanding the role of a woman, among other things.
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