{"id":3146,"date":"2013-06-24T17:57:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T17:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2015-08-18T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T12:07:52","slug":"the-women-leading-africa-series-meet-josephine-nzerem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/the-women-leading-africa-series-meet-josephine-nzerem\/","title":{"rendered":"The Women Leading Africa Series: Meet Josephine Nzerem"},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"en\">In 2012, the African Women&#8217;s Development Fund published &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.africlub.net\/awdf\/downloads?dl_page=2\" target=\"_blank\">Women Leading Africa<\/a>&#8216;, a series of conversations with African women leaders in the Arts, Feminist Spaces and Politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">Throughout the work we do, AWDF staff regularly meet inspiring African women leaders from all walks of life. The &#8216;Women Leading Africa&#8217; video series will share videos of inspirational African women who do amazing work in diverse communities. In the video below we introduce Josephine Nzerem, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashoka.org\/fellow\/josephine-nzerem\" target=\"_blank\">Ashoka Fellow <\/a>and also board chair of the Center for Advancement of Development Rights\u00a0 (CEADER), an AWDF grantee partner in Nigeria. In this video she talks about her work around disinheritance, and ensuring rights for widows.<\/span>\n<p><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eWTIIHEAoFw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[251,291,292,293,294,295,76,296],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-african","tag-ashoka","tag-cedear","tag-center-for-advancement-of-development-rights","tag-josephine-nzerem","tag-leader","tag-nigeria","tag-woman"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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