The first article in our series was written by Crystal Simeoni from the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), convenors of the African Feminist Macroeconomics Academy. T…
"The third African Feminist Forum (AFF) was held from October 21st-24th 2010 in Dakar, Senegal, co-hosted by the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) and the Groupe de Recherche sur les Femmes e…
"The third African Feminist Forum (AFF) was held from October 21st-24th 2010 in Dakar, Senegal, co-hosted by the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) and the Groupe de Recherche sur les Femmes e…
Despite many years of struggles to get out of the malaise of underdevelopment, the African continent is still trapped in conditions that dehumanize and marginalize a large segment of the population…
This article discusses how Wangari Maathai’s life experiences narrated in her autobiography Unbowed offers an opportunity for discussing the contradictions surrounding the perception, place and i…
Gendered identity in Africa has for centuries been a hotbed of ideological and narrative contestations. While colonial constructions of the African female were generally essentialist and negative i…