Empowerment of Women in Africa
Women play a key role in their support for their families and communities to achieve food, the role of income, improve rural livelihoods and attention to the family. They contribute to the agriculture and rural businesses and supporting the local economy and globally. Thus, a woman is an effective element in pursuit towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. However, every day woman facing in various parts of the world, continuing structural barriers prevent the full enjoyment of their human rights, and undermine their efforts to improve their lives and the lives of those around them.
There are some elements leads to those situations for example education, economics, religion, culture and tradition.

To begin with, The debate surrounding the impact of different facets of Africa’s triple heritage and as a result of traditional African religion, Christianity and Islam, a woman has been re-surged on the status of African. The role and place of Man in every religion is very well predetermined in the main religious of the world mostly Christianity and Islam however this role and place of woman leaves a lot to be desired.

In most areas, low representation of women in politics and decision-making circles progress has been made in the field of political representation
For women since 1995, and included Africa and large parts of Asia, where the cases appeared with a clear increase in the presence of women in parliaments. Rwanda has achieved, surprisingly, significant gains in this area, where women now represent 56% of the parliament, compared to 17% in 1995. 28 As at the global level, there is still a gap in women's access to power, and integrated into the decision-making circles and leadership at all levels, including the village councils. The information available from Asia for the year 2010 that the women there represented between 0.2% (Bangladesh) and 7% (Cambodia) heads of village councils, while representing between 1.6% (Sri Lanka) and 31% (Pakistan) elected representatives in village councils. 1-

Africa's traditional community was not as reasonable to women as we would like to believe. Generally they were used and managed like personal property of men, oppressed, exploited and degraded. Women In Africa often have been addressed as "second -class" as represented in many Africa sayings and proverbs. In most of these proverbs, females are known as stoves, large wooden stirring spoons, cows, old cooking pots, fields and fires and even pets usually with a disparagement meaning. "Woman is the devil's tail", "Is the lady regarded person?", “Does lady talk in public?", "When are you going to make me a babe?"
In some cases for example people think and believe that it is unworthy to teach girls and let them go to school because later she will get married and no more are part of the family members. Also some of them are forced to get married to men only because of a big dowry or sometimes after husband dead, the woman should marry for one of his brothers. This is all because a woman is passive in the traditional societies. (The role of women in the Church in Africa)

All human beings are the same and have equal rights and dignity. Also they should act toward each other in a spirit of one family such us brotherhood and sisterhood. This is supported by the holy bible when mentioned that in Gal. 3:28 "All baptized in Christ, you have all clothed yourselves in Christ and there are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, but all of you are in Christ Jesus". "And you are all brothers and sisters" Matt. 23:8. However, the reality is very far from the theory. All times, cultures, religions, places, churches do not give enough way or role in the society to women to be a leader or behave like a man. Most of the work of the society and in the church women’s do and at the same time she should hold most of the leadership and not the opposite. For example, Mbum women in Chad they are not allowed to eat eggs, chicken or game meat. In Kenya Luo women were banned to eat chicken, eggs, milk, sheep, rabbit.
(The role of women in the Church in Africa)

Actually It has been noted that most Islamic nations, such as the Philippines, Bangladesh, and Malawi, have had females as chief executive, pm or head of govt than European nations. This is interesting given that European nations have avowed sex equal rights guidelines. However, it is worth noting that the Islamic woman leader in the aforementioned nations did not increase to power on their own but inherited those positions bequeathed them by their father or family members or their relatives. These modern improvements do not nullify the point that those who presented Islam in African-American were perturbed by the active part and exposure of females in the public sector when they first came to the continent. This describes why they shifted quickly to significantly modify these tasks and change the place of females in Africa society based on Islamic doctrine. without a doubt, the religious experts who also more than doubled as group of society as they worked to protect Islamic truth in African-American were all men.
(The Impact of Religion on Women Empowerment as a Millennium Development Goal in Africa)