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    BBC News Africa‏Verified account @BBCAfrica Oct 23

    "When you’re not able to carry your pregnancy to term, you become less of a woman." These women are challenging some beliefs about womanhood. What does being a woman mean to you?pic.twitter.com/TUdpIbz5xp

    'Childlessness does not define me'
    Three women spoke on our women's discussion programme #TheSheWord about what womanhood means to them.
    7:40 AM - 23 Oct 2018
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    12 replies 132 retweets 189 likes
      1. Ruby  👑‏ @lifesoulcool Oct 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Being born a female is woman enough.

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      1. Shomi Schmurda‏ @Shomicita Oct 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        This is so beautiful and a much needed initiative - well done to these brave women for speaking out and encouraging others 💙💙.

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      2. David Ongaki‏ @Mogaiz Oct 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @missNjambi

        Women should sire children for the society to have the next generation... if all women make a choice not to have children... congratulations to them the homo sapiens will be extinct.

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      3. kuuuuuuddddaaa‏ @TimbaKudakwashe Oct 23
        Replying to @Mogaiz @BBCAfrica @missNjambi

        You must be superman because that leap was of truly fictional proportions.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      1. Mubabela Ndaye‏ @MubabelaN Oct 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica @kinshasaweb

        Is this issue affecting only black women ?

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      1. Mary O‏ @maryodeke Oct 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Beauty and Strength . A woman is a nurturer, an embodiment of God.

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      2. stop the sob‏ @crashingthepos Oct 24
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Ooh fuck me ati less of a woman with the bitching &sabotage i've had 2options 2either stress eat or lose my shit i chose the former Idg a flying fuck how i look,having a child is having to take care of someone who's fully dependant on you those who think not having

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      3. stop the sob‏ @crashingthepos Oct 24
        Replying to @crashingthepos @BBCAfrica

        One is a waste should mind their lives.i'll probably not get to 60 and you think not having a kid is something that Worries me least of my worries not having a child is neither here nor there what with living it in this shit world full of shitty people!

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      1. Seth‏ @Seth53729497 Oct 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Yeah, they are women

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      1. ezra barook‏ @ezrabarook Oct 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Here we go! More Eurocentricism dressed and presented as African...smh

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      1. ashiraftwalibkuba‏ @ashiraftwalibk1 Oct 23
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        Ok

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      1. ((2020PresidentialCandidate))‏ @Mindset2Africa Oct 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Not true koraaaaa

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      1. Blessed child‏ @serwaa_amoako Oct 23
        Replying to @BBCAfrica

        Keep smiling. You are truly a woman

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