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Because of the nature of the environment in which women have been and are still evolving, they have to face many challenges: * to breathe life into their young voices so as to be heard among male writers and foreign winds * to turn themselves into creative and organised Shivas to lead concurrent family, professional and social lives * to be part and parcel of the living literary history of Côte d'Ivoire and Africa by being studied in academic programmes * to widen their scope of readership beyond geographical boundaries and language barriers. In order to address the situation of women writers in Côte d'Ivoire in a more specific manner I have identified three phases in the following chronological order : Past II : from 1986 to 1995 : more new voices Present : from 1995 to 2000 and onwards : taking on the future and the world |
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