Posted
on August 27, 2015
Once
upon a time, in 1977, the President of Guinea, in Africa, created a
new law
that all agricultural products (mostly food) had to be delivered to huge state-run cooperatives, which would then sell the food.
In
other words, people could no longer sell the food they grew in
traditional markets!
That
was going to ruin many people with small farms, and all the vendors
in the markets.
Many
of these people who were sure to be hurt by the new law were women.
And the women decided they were not going to take follow the new law!
The
market women protested the law. Protest is good, and protesting
unjust laws is very, very good. Unfortunately, the protest turned
into a riot – and riots hurt people and possessions, which is bad!
Still the protests, which spread all around the country, did end up
forcing the president to change the law and to make small-scale
trading (buying and selling) legal again.
According
to several sources, women's organizations in Guinea hold
demonstrations and marches every August 27 to remind themselves that
they have power and can exert influence.
The
nation of Guinea has a ton of problems, but here are a few of the
beauties of the country:
Mount
Nimba
Cape
Verga
the
Grande Mosquee, in Guinea's capital city of Conakry
Islands
called Iles de Los
To
learn more about Guinea, check out this earlier post.
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