Cherie Blair has been criticised for claiming that rape is the first sexual experience of ‘most African ladies’.
Cherie was speaking in an event, entitled ‘the leadership lecture’ which was attended by around 100 people and took place on March 20, and was hailed as “very popular” by the school.
But an audience member accused the wife of former prime minister Tony Blair of making unsubstantiated claims.
“No one seemed to react and I was shocked because I felt like she was in a position of authority and should take responsibility for saying things like that without any evidence to support it,” she said.
It is reported that when contacted the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, said Mrs Blair’s comment referred “to the women she had met and heard directly from in the initial years of the Foundation’s work rather than a specific research piece”.
Surely are our African women that insulted?
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