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Fatoumata Badini Kinda Burkina Faso As feminists, we need to mobilise awareness in women and men to contribute towards a situation where women’s rights are a lived reality. I live in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and I am a Lecturer at the University of Ouagadougou in the Department of Sociology. The courses I teach include Gender and Development Analysis; Gender Education and Society, Research Methodology and Urban and Industrial Sociology. In addition to teaching I also supervise the dissertations and theses of students as well as carry out research and publish articles covering a range of issues related to women’s lives, work, and the impact of urbanization on gender relations. that we make our own struggles and movements visible in such a way that others may find entry points to join us so that we have a louder voice. Finally, we need to work on the African feminist movement itself, to ens W&RF