Strong University Girls

A university-the place to be for whosoever intends to to pursue his or her studies in higher education.

After decades of intense fights taken up by human rights activists and other civil society organizations, in a die hard  African traditional context, the girl child’s social status is gradually but steadily gaining recognition.  Changing from the general belief of [a household commodity to a person  with reasoning faculties just like the boy child].

Thank goodness for all those who fought this fight. Be it in the domain of traditional beliefs, religious doctrines, or political will. Now, the girl child can continue schooling up to her doctorate degree if she feels like it.

Unfortunately, for our sisters who continue schooling up to the university level, these girls find themselves confronted to a very de-grading, immoral and non-professional practice which in effect is sexual harassment. University lecturers who are prompt to having body pleasures with their young and beautiful female students go on to sanction these brilliant girls works with remarks and points that do not reflect their true intelligence.

When the girls try to inquire on the poor marking done by their lecturer, she is now put before the real intensions of this lecturer. Intensions which essentially consists in having sex with the young woman. No less, no more. Given that most of these university lecturers are already married men.

This is how female students who are in their master’s and doctorate degree programs, who for their mémoires need  a supervisor [a university lecturer] to guide them through till their defense face intense sexual harassment. These supervisors use phrases like :

-if you accept, i make you have your diploma.

-You cannot succeed without me… etc

It took the courage and bravery of a young university female student who recorded the phone call one of these bad lecturers did to intimidate her. She later sent this recorded phone call to a radio station which eventually spread the news like wild fire. The academic institution’s authorities were caught short. But still, they had to sanction this bad lecturer.

The truth is, this young woman’s case is just one that eventually went public. If not, there are thousands of young girls who are sexually harassed by their lecturers and who give-in for fear of academic failure.

Our project is to create a journal in our university and eventually represented in all universities in our country. A journal with complete autonomy with respect to any university authority. A journal run and headed by girls themselves university students  and therefore closer to their fellow university mates. All these to develop a safe heaven for young brilliant university female students. May they undergo their studies without any extra-curricular strings attached to it.