Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia

most powerful women in African politics

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Ngozi Okonjo-Lweala

  Continuing on when I left the last time, I searched for the more female politicians in Africa and came back with two but just a few. 

If male politicians looked at the progress that the above mentioned female politicians have brought to their respective countries then maybe Zimbabwean female politicians would be given a better platform to express themselves. female politicians from Zimbabwe cannot perform on the world stage because back home they are not given a relevant voice to better express themselves, how then can they compete with the above mentioned female politicians. 

The standard newspaper( 22-28 february 2015), published a full page about the Liberians re electing a woman as their president. Ellen Johnson is 77 years old but she got re elected because she ran her country progressive (lhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Johnson_Sirleaf). in that same paper under the opinion column, Ellen Johnson was even compared to some male politicians from this country with the example of Robert Mugabe. the contrast was that were this woman was getting better with age, this man from Zimbabwe was getting worse the more he grew up, and his country was suffering for it. 

according to UN women(http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2013/9/zimbabwe-women-mps-sworn-in), Female politicians in Zimbabwe were told to vacate the most competitive sets in Parliament and to reserve them for men. what this means then that women do not have enough competition in them to stand against men, is that So? why would men tell women such things?

in a way female politicians in Zimbabwe are not meant for the more serious cases, they are supposed to be in the back ground all the time.

But then do male politicians in Zimbabwe not see how some countries like Liberia are progressing because they do  not keep their women in the background.