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Shamima Muslim: Why not you?
When I received the call to make a statement here today, I was initially stunned, then excited, and then really anxious. I asked myself, why me?
But then I asked myself, why not me?
I am a veil-wearing Muslim woman from one of the smallest regions in Ghana; the Upper West, among one of the smallest ethnic groups in the country, the Wala. In many ways, I am a minority of a minority.
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In many spaces I’ve been in, I am often the exception and hardly the norm.
But that has never held me back. The more down the ladder I appear to be, the higher up the ladder I have always aspired to reach. I became one of the first from my immediate family to attain a university education and one of the first, or perhaps, the only woman from my community to have had a primetime voice on radio and television.
My exposure and impact helped inspire many young women, particularly, Muslim girls across the country to pursue a career in media and journalism.
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