A cross section of women activists in Enugu have expressed shock over the demise of Winnie Mandela, the South African anti-apartheid activist and former wife of late President Nelson Mandela.
Some of the women who spoke on her death said that the continent has lost a great fighter of African freedom.
A onetime UN Rapporteur on Human trafficking, Prof Joy Ezeilo described late Winnie as an `astute activist who fought the Apartheid Government to a standstill’ under the African National Congress (ANC) banner.
Ezeilo who is also the Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, said that Winnie popularly known as Mama Afrika, held forte all through the incarceration of late Nelson Mandela.
“She was a frontline feminist and Pan Africanist who led the emancipation struggle…
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