Podcasts - Cry like a boy

From Burundi to Senegal, from Liberia to Lesotho, travel with us across Africa to discover the stories of men buckling under the pressure to conform to traditional male gender roles, and those who step up and become part of the solution.

Follow our journey (with all episodes) and stay tuned and share your stories with the hashtag #CryLikeaBoy

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Read the full script of the episodes

Adama Dieng, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide.

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UN Adama Dieng: 'Men, too, have been victims of rape during genocides'

Dominant masculine ideals in Senegal can be harmful but there are also opportunities for re-invention.

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Male returnees challenge the stigma of deportation | View

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Podcast | Liberia’s army of peace: The women who stood up to warlords

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Podcast | The women who redefined the frontline in Liberia's civil war

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Podcast | Liberia's invisible war wound: from warrior to black sheep

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Podcast | Liberia’s civil war: the soldiers who battled masculinity

Cry Like a Boy: Videos

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Liberia’s Ebola gravediggers still live with trauma six years on

Fatoumata is weighing flour at a baking class in Conakry, Guinea.

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Women who risk Europe’s migration routes face stigma back in Guinea

Motoana Tlali, former Lesotho miner, died of pneumonia at 68 few weeks after the recording of this video

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Meet the man who stopped at nothing to feed his family in Lesotho

The journalists and producers: Marta Rodríguez Martínez, Naira Davlashyan, Lillo Montalto Monella, Arwa Barkallah.
Do you want to get in touch? Email us at CryLikeBoy(at)euronews.com

This programme was funded by the European Journalism Centre, through the European Development Journalism Grants programme.
This fund is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.