Welcome to the Evolved Feminist
These are the stories of women who go over and beyond to sow love and respect, to protect happiness and togetherness and who are committed to building a happy and harmonious society.
These are the stories of women making informed choices to build happiness for themselves and harmony in their families, communities and society. It is the story of an architect, a doctor who has placed her career on hold to raise her children. It is the story of a single mom who juggles two jobs to provide for her children, but also takes a day off to spend time with them, to teach them what it is to be a good man, and to be a good woman in society.
It is the story of the matriarch who holds her community together. It is the story of a high-end corporate executive who, despite all her career successes, goes over and beyond to bring happiness to her home. It is the story of a mother who refuses to give up on her son even when the rest of society sees nothing good in him. It is the story of millions of women, who are making informed choices not out of weakness but out of selflessness to build a better society for generations to come. Selflessness is not a weakness and must never be.
I’ve taken a pledge that is founded on gratitude to the feminist movement and is guided by an uncompromising and unwavering desire for happiness and harmony in society.
What informed choices have you made to pursue happiness and foster harmony? Read the stories of other women, take the pledge or tell us your story of being an Evolved Feminist.
Articles
My name is Yango Laura Chumbon. I’ve been married for almost 15 years and blessed with five adorable kids. I graduated from the University of Buea with a BSc in Journalism and Mass Communication and proceeded to the Advanced School of Mass Communications in Yaounde.
My story starts by defining who I am and what I love. My names are Caroline Zoh Akiy Mbi-njifor. I was born, raised, and molded in Cameroon. I moved to South Africa, Johannesburg when I was 22 and have lived here since then. This has truly become my home.
For a long time, I thought my successes and accomplishments would give me all the happiness I needed but I was wrong. My name is Vivian Bih, I am a wife, a mother, a communicator by training and a practicing nurse.
I am Pearl Osa, a 41 year old BComm graduate from the University of Witwatersrand, who, after graduating, cut her teeth in the Banking industry. In my career days, I performed a variety of roles – project management, communications, service management and marketing.
The Pledge of an Evolved Feminist is a personalisation of the ‘The Memorandum of an Evolved Feminist’. In my journey, I questioned, I challenged and sometimes disagreed with basic tenets of the feminist movement. I thought I failed but indeed it was an amazing personal evolution.