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Leading Cameroonian presidential candidate Edith Kah Walla has been profiled in the prestigious weekly International magazine Newsweek. The edition of September 26th 2011 features stories of women who are winning in various walks of life across the globe. The front page has Brazil's wildly popular president, Dilma Rousseff.
For decades, Newsweek has served as an avant-garde publication that is a harbinger of political and socio-economic trends. Having a Cameroonian in the news magazine is a rare occurrence, and highlights how meaningful change affecting the lives of thousands, can come from one individual, in this case, Edith Kah Walla.
The Newsweek article furthermore, ranks countries and their friendliness to women. There are the best places to be a woman such as Canada which comes in third, and then the bottom of the barrel,with countries like Chad ranking as the worst place to be a woman in 2011. Cameroon comes a close number seventeen, sandwiched between Cote d'Ivoire (16) and the Central African Republic (18).
The amazing story about this article by Newsweek is that notwithstanding all the odds against her, Kah Walla still succeeds in going against convention and is running for president of her country - Cameroon.
Other women profiled include the Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, and the President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla.
Elevating Kah Walla to the world stage is an honor for Cameroon and surely, a good sign if she were to win the presidential election. History will note that for once in Cameroon, a woman stood against the might of the ruling Cameroon people's Democratic Movement (CPDM) party-State machinery. May other women follow her lead when they go to the ballot on October 9th.
Leading Cameroonian presidential candidate Edith Kah Walla has been profiled in the prestigious weekly International magazine Newsweek. The edition of September 26th 2011 features stories of women who are winning in various walks of life across the globe. The front page has Brazil's wildly popular president, Dilma Rousseff.
For decades, Newsweek has served as an avant-garde publication that is a harbinger of political and socio-economic trends. Having a Cameroonian in the news magazine is a rare occurrence, and highlights how meaningful change affecting the lives of thousands, can come from one individual, in this case, Edith Kah Walla.
The Newsweek article furthermore, ranks countries and their friendliness to women. There are the best places to be a woman such as Canada which comes in third, and then the bottom of the barrel,with countries like Chad ranking as the worst place to be a woman in 2011. Cameroon comes a close number seventeen, sandwiched between Cote d'Ivoire (16) and the Central African Republic (18).
The amazing story about this article by Newsweek is that notwithstanding all the odds against her, Kah Walla still succeeds in going against convention and is running for president of her country - Cameroon.
Other women profiled include the Prime Minister of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra, Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, and the President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla.
Elevating Kah Walla to the world stage is an honor for Cameroon and surely, a good sign if she were to win the presidential election. History will note that for once in Cameroon, a woman stood against the might of the ruling Cameroon people's Democratic Movement (CPDM) party-State machinery. May other women follow her lead when they go to the ballot on October 9th.
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