Oral History Mandisa - questions

 I often find while doing Wikipedia articles that people are in need of extensive oral history types of documentation. I think that it is important that people are a part of the creation of their source documentation.


When I first started doing Wikipedia articles, and learning about people and talking with people I would write a list of questions specific to that person. Many of the people I wrote articles about in the beginning were Elders. Many things about their life and history they had not thought about or talked about in years.


I created this list for Mandisa Monakali. 


Your childhood


Growing up


Your parents influences


Thoughts about the community you grew up in.


Influences


Your thoughts about life and struggle


Being a mother


Your passions


Your loves


Your community involvements


Your country involvements


Your global involvements


Your UN involvements


Family


The struggle as you see it.


The African Diaspora


The West


Agriculture


Projects that mean the most to you.


The future for women


Unity and women


Women's relationships to each other


Women's relationships to men


The work that needs to be done.


The work that is being done.


Your accomplishments.


Your community accomplishments


Apartheid 


The wounds not healed


Education for children


Education for youth


Education for women


Education for men


Education for communities


The elderly


Empowerment


Health


Your thoughts on feminism and African women.


Your thoughts on advocacy.


Your thoughts on violence against women.


Man's inhumanity to men


Women's inhumanity to women


Your thoughts on war


Your thoughts on peace


Your thoughts on the environment


Your thoughts on democracy


United Nations instruments


What makes you happy.


What would progress look like for you.


I found a list of credible S African bloggers. We can submit source material answered questions (data).


Talk about people you have worked with and known so that their stories can be told thru your story.


Your work with the youth, the rural women and urban women.


Male female relationships that work and do not work.







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