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LEARNING HOW TO LIVE IN PEACE AFTER WAR

Mohammed Saliba, known as Pacon, one of the men living on the streets of Monrovia, Liberia, carries the stigma of being considered a "zogo".

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Cry Like a Boy takes you on a journey to five African countries to meet the men who are challenging gender stereotypes

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Meet the African musicians who bring our Cry Like a Boy podcast to life with their fusion of Afro beats, pop and jazz.

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SURVIVING THE MIGRATION “ADVENTURE”

Police officers patrol near a migrant camp in Calais, northern France, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021.

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Cry Like a Boy is an original Euronews series and podcast that explores how the pressure to be ‘a man’ can harm families and entire societies.

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RISKING LIVES TO PUT BREAD ON THE TABLE

People pass by an AIDS Healthcare Foundation awareness billboard in Maputsoe, Lesotho, on January 31, 2020.

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Motoana Tlali, former Lesotho miner, died of pneumonia at 68 few weeks after the recording of this video

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BEING GAY IN THE FORMER GAY CAPITAL OF AFRICA

Sao Vicente in Cape Verde

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Cry Like a Boy, episode 8.

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Episode 7 of Cry Like a Boy.

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Makhtar Aidar is a Nijaayu Gox or male doula in Pikine Ouest, Senegal.

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REDEEMING VIOLENT HUSBANDS

Yves Kami playing Iyengenge for Euronews.

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An Abatangamuco meeting in Colline Kiremera.

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VIEWS

A curated selection of op-eds penned by African researchers, opinion leaders and artists reflecting on gender inequality and gender roles

Dominant masculine ideals in Senegal can be harmful but there are also opportunities for re-invention.

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"We should have the courage to raise boys as girls to achieve gender equality."

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Dr Amon Ashaba Mwiine is a lecturer at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University.

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Critical reflections on the everyday processes of ‘becoming a man’

"As the writer Gadra Kilomba says, the black woman is the other of the other, that is, the white woman."

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Lorenzo Gasparrini is an Italian philosopher and feminist

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RETHINKING MASCULINITY

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This programme was funded by the European Journalism Centre, through the European Development Journalism Grants programme.
This fund is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.