Journée international de la femme 2017 par les élèves du lycée français Fustel de Coulanges de Yaoundé - Cameroun

1. MIRIAM MAKEBA
« MAMA AFRICA »

2. HOW DID MIRIAM MAKEBA SMASH THE
GLASS CEILING AND DEBUNK THE MYTH
OF FEMALE INFERIORITY?

3. THE GLASS CEILING
• WOMEN CAN’T REACH SELF-FULLFILLMENT BECAUSE OF
THE METAPHORICAL GLASS CEILING ABOVE THEM
• THAT INVISIBLE BARRIER PREVENTS THEM FROM
GETTING TO UPPER-LEVEL POSITIONS
Glass ceiling
Self
fullfillment/
Advancement

4. BREAKING
THROUGH/SMASHING
THE GLASS CEILING

5. THE MYTH OF FEMALE
INFERIORITY
• TOO MUCH THINGS TO CARRY:
CHILDREN, …
• DIFFICULT PATH
• MEN DON’T HAVE
CONSTRAINTS
• EASY PATH

6. TO DEBUNK THE
MYTH OF FEMALE
INFERIORITY

7. MIRIAM
MAKEBA

8. SINGER, WRITER, ACTIVIST
•SOUTH AFRICAN SINGER AND POLITICAL ACTIVIST
•THREE DECADES CAREER
•POWERFUL VOICE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST APARTHEID
•FOUGHT AGAINST AIDS
•“MOTHER AFRICA”/ “THE EMPRESS OF AFRICAN SONG”

9. HER MUSIC, HER CAREER
•1950S: THE BLACK MANHATTAN BROTHERS AND THE SKYLARKS
•1956: PATA PATA
•COME BACK, AFRICA 1959=> EXILE
•1960: MIRIAM MAKEBA
•1960: HARRY BELAFONTE
•« THE CLICK SONG », « MALAIKA »
•1981: MET AND WORKED WITH PAUL SIMON
•1990: HOME, SWEET HOME
•

10. Harry BELAFONTE Paul SIMON

12. HER FIGHTS

13. AN ANTI-APARTHEID ACTIVIST
•COME BACK, AFRICA 1959
•1963: TESTIFIED AGAINST APARTHEID BEFORE THE UNITED NATIONS
•AN EVENING WITH BELAFONTE/MAKEBA
•1975: ADDRESS TO THE UNITED NATIONS
•1987: GRACELAND TOUR
•1988: FREE NELSON MANDELA CONCERT
•1990: NELSON MANDELA 70TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE CONCERT

14. SHE SMASHED THE GLASS
CEILING AND DEBUNKED THE
MYTH OF FEMALE
INFERIORITY
•MUSICAL POINT OF VIEW
•POLITICAL ACTIVISM
POINT OF VIEW
•ICONIC POINT OF VIEW