Authentic African News » Deaths (Obituaries)
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Kehinde Lijadu, 71, Outspoken Nigerian Songwriter, Is Dead
As the Lijadu Sisters, she and her identical twin, Taiwo, sang about injustice and hope and had a string of hit records in the 1970s. -
Bogaletch Gebre, Foe of Female Genital Mutilation, Dies at 66
Called the woman who began the rebellion of Ethiopian women, she helped drastically reduce the barbaric practice that she suffered and that had cost her sisters life.