KADIFF UPDATES

  PRINCESS ZAINAB AHMAD KADIFF DIRECTOR REFLECT ON WOMEN'S DAY AS KADUNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY *INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2021*  *Significance of International women's Day* International women's Day, commemorated on March 8th of every year, it's earmarked to celebrate womanhood and recognise her achievements without regard to devisions- national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic, or political. It is a day to acknowledge and make people aware of women's rights and gender equality, parity, and call to action for accelerating women's equality.  *ORIGIN* It was actually started by the socialist party in the United states in 1909 and was observed in Newyork, but it wasn't until Clara Zetkin, a German feminist, pushed for it to be a holiday in 1910 that it really took off across Europe and since then, it became an important day for women around the world. *PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES* International women's D

  AMAZONS AND ART : WOMEN IN THE WORLD OF LITERATURE, MUSIC, FILM AND ART BY ISRAEL KASHIM AUDU  Though the 21st-century has often been referred to as the age of women-empowerment when every crusader against patriarchal norms is applauded, representation of female emancipation, be it in films and serials or in literature, often assume distorted forms. The depiction of women in media and literature seems to be aimed more at satisfying the subconscious male voyeuristic desires than at how the females have become modernised enough to take on the world.  Importantly, this is not a novel phenomenon. With the powerful men looking down upon their female counterparts merely as submissive sexual objects. Women have been consistently stereotyped as unintelligent human beings who are expected to serve in kitchens, follow the directions of their male and female in-laws, act as caring mothers to children, and ensure, on the peril of unpopularity, that servants did their tasks ‘correctly’. Even in E