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TOP 7 FEMALE DICTATORS AND DESPOTS

There is this saying that goes "what a man can do, a woman can do it better". Not true in all cases but one can see where they are coming from. Anytime we hear the word "dictator" we think of the likes of Adolf Hitler, Idi Amin, Josef Stalin, Benito Mussolini etc, we always tend to forget the women. Why? I don't know. Luckily y'all have me(you're welcome). These women helped shaped history even though it cost the lives of thousands of people. 7. AGRIPPINA  Born in AD 15 in Rome,Agrippina the Younger was the great granddaughter of Roman Emperor Augustus and sister of the Emperor Caligula. In AD 39, Caligula exiled her for conspiring against him, but he allowed her to return to Rome in AD 41. In AD 49, Agrippina saw her main chance and seized it. Poisoning her second husband, Passienus Crispus, she married her uncle, the Emperor Claudius, by then an old and feeble man, and effectively took control. Agrippina soon bullied Claudius into adopting her son Nero...

THE NEGATIVE CONNOTATION OF THE WORD "FEMINISM"

  I have to be sincere, this article has got to be one of the hardest for me to write. I don't even know how to start but i have to start from somewhere. Anyone who knows me knows how i have always advocated for equal rights, its safe to say i was a feminist. For those who don't know, a feminist is a person who believes in the political, economic and social equality of the sexes. Now most people would probably ask 'why don't you just call yourself an equalist'? Feminists are equalists but you have to state the problem which is women being oppressed and emasculated, sounds kinda perfect right? That was the real intention of the movement, but like every movement they are always a group of people who take it to the extremes. Recently, i have been on a journey of self realization and actualization which entails getting to know my creator more, knowing what i really stand for and what i believe in. For almost a decade, i have identified as a feminist and have dedicated a...