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Tanzanian woman presented as a man for 10 years so she could work a mine
- k-mcgrady 9y agoNB: Despite the click bait headline it's an interesting article on succeeding as an entrepreneur in difficult circumstances. Edit: Post title has been updated (thankfully), I originally had the article title.
- Aardwolf 9y agoShe is awesome. I thought from the title the story would end badly for her, but it ended awesomely.
- MisterPC 9y agoYeah. Is it correct to say that the only reason she could prove her innocence from the rape charge though is that she at that point revealed she was a women?
- carlmungz 9y agoAgreed. It's an amazing story.
- return0 9y agoOr as any struggling, but strong human being.
- tomhoward 9y agoAgreed, though it's also worth noting the article does a poor job of conveying an accurate sense of time. As you read it you assume it's a recent story, and then suddenly the year 2001 is mentioned but nothing more. So unless you click through to the podcast, you can't get a good sense of when it happened and how long for.
- wahern 9y agoRecent is relative. I've had the same initial response to learning that a story is 10 or 20 years old (or more). But I think that reflects more our presumptions, cultural context, and age, than it does a deficiency in reporting. Unless Tanzania has experienced a significant and pertinent cultural shift since then, the year 2001 could be just as recent as yesterday as far as it concerns subject matter context. Also, it's not like the year is buried 10 pages in. It's midway through a relatively short article. It's just as likely the writer put the year in the middle of the story out of artist license than as a way to obscure the timeline.
- js2 9y agoWomen disguising themselves as men to do "men's work" is probably as old as time. Here's documentation of women doing so to fight in the US Civil War: https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/women-in-the-civil-war-1.html https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1993/spring/w... http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-fought-in-the-civil-war-1402680/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-women-who-fought-i...
- cm2012 9y agoI had no idea miners could actually hit the jackpot like she did and find enough gems to become rich with.
- cjsthompson 9y agoWhich shows that this isn't at all about being an "entrepreneur". An entrepreneur would be an exploiter which is already rich enough to pay for other people (as low as possible of course) to dig for gems which he then confiscates as his property to get even richer whilst doing nowhere near as much work as those who do the digging.