My Final Thoughts
As this is my last post, I think it is important to reflect on the journey which I have been on with my blog, what I have learnt and what the future looks like for women’s development in Africa. The aim of this blog was to look not just at water and gender in Africa, but also pay close attention to power relations at every level in different areas. As I started this blog, I will also end it by prefacing that one of the most important goals was to remove the stereotypes of Africa as one homogenous place. Africa in fact is a continent filled with a wealth of culture, landscapes and socio-economic backgrounds. There is no one size fits all solution when looking at a problem as wide gender and water. What works in one area or country will not necessarily work in another and in order to come up with solutions we need to embrace these complexities. Source: IFAD on Twitter In terms of women’s access to water, there is still a long way to go. Physically there is enough water for everyone to