The Young Women's Leadership Institute (YWLI) is a feminist centre of excellence for young women's leadership:
• We are the driving force that motivates and sets precedence to anchor transformative leadership in young women.
• We lead in creating spaces, through unconventional feminist platforms, to embrace and collaborate with embryonic groups.
• We are a centre of knowledge regarding the rights of young women in Africa and the Diaspora.
We carry out our mission by:
• Equipping young women with feminist leadership skills;
• Creating spaces that facilitate young women to lead social change;
• Sharing information and resources to build the leadership capacities of young women
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Kenya post March 4th 2013: The face of a re-ethnicized nation
After the March 4th elections we now know the type of people some of us really are. Our voting patterns hinted at being people with a tribal inclination. It is no wonder then that politicians would talk of consolidating the Luhya, Kalenjin or Kikuyu vote. Coalitions banked on an ethnic support base and this tendency is what has given Kenyan politics its ethnic character. Now, for a country that has 42 plus tribes with some as large as millions and others in their thousands one is left wondering if these smaller tribes will ever rise to the helm of leadership in the country. It can be argued that we may always have a group that will always be in leadership. Political analyst Mutahi Ngunyi read our tribal tendencies and came up with the infamous Tyranny of [tribal] Numbers analysis.
My Internship at YWLI
When I got the email informing me that my application for internship at Young Women’s Leadership Institute was successful, I was overjoyed! This was going to be an exciting 6-month journey of getting to learn more about feminism and women issues. Some of my friends asked why I was leaving my job to become an intern but I knew what I wanted. YWLI was offering me a chance to learn and grow as well as utilize my skills. I told myself I’d worry about unemployment and job security later on.
During the induction I was taken through the Feminist Internship Curriculum. I have been an intern before but I have never experienced such a well-structured internship. The curriculum is a six-month guide to successful internship at YWLI.
