Poverty Is A Woman Issue In Africa

Poverty has been in existence for decades ago before I was given birth and is considered as a way of life, in the same way blood is flowing in our body's vein. In Sub Saharan Africa, women poverty increases due to the nature of the people's culture and tradition and the lack of wheel power on the part of their governments to make laws or rather enforces the laws made as regard to such culture and tradition of the people that contribute in increasing poverty. More so, the issue of privatizations of government companies that provide social services to the citizens as direct by IMF and World Bank increases the suffering of the poor. The study uses documentary source of data in collecting data. The paper concludes that poverty in women is a serious problem which must to be address or reduced to the bearest minimum most especially the issues of lack of income, access to land and properties, opportunities by the governments and international communities. Poor governance as results of fraud and corruption in most African countries contribute in draining their resource and deny the citizens access to social services that will reduce their suffering and poverty.