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Africa: Violence against women by women
Dec 7 2006, Pooja

While women in Africa are very much oppressed, a housemaid’s condition is even more wretched one.

Wanja is an orphan and lives with her distant aunt. However, she does all the household chores much like a house cleaner than a relative.

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