Nego‐Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way

In this article I will explore, among other issues, the intertwining of the colonial moment, the politics of fieldwork, and the politics of representation in feminist scholarship and development st…

Towards a Transformative, Feminist Approach to Trauma in Africa: Perspectives…

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Reconciling Arabo-Islamic culture and feminist consciousness in North African…

This article sets out to explore the theme of silence and voice in selected short stories by two North African women writers, Alifa Rifaat and Assia Djebar. In their representations of women’s li…

“I’m not a feisty bitch, I’m a feminist!” Feminism in AWAKE! Women of…

Although being an African, a sex worker and a feminist are often considered to be incongruent identities, in certain embodiments they intersect and inform each other. This Profile highlights what…

Reclaiming the Streets: Investigating Female Experience of Cinematic Urban Vi…

The spatial ideologies and narrative tropes of gendered victimhood, which are designed to induce fear and anxiety, are routinely employed to govern and restrict female access to and experience of…

Plasticity and Programming: Feminism and the Epigenetic Imaginary

The “living being does not simply perform a program,” writes French feminist philosopher Catherine Malabou in a 2016 Critical Inquiry essay on the new science of epigenetics (435). Epigenetic…

Feminism in Africa and African Women’s Writing

Feminism developed out of the discontents of women in the West. Although African women, over the ages, have always been sensitive to all forms of discrimination within the African society, the emer…

Can Africana Women Truly Embrace Ecological Feminism?

My starting point in this essay is that, if it can be ascertained that there is something called Black African feminism (which represents the interests of some Black African women) as claimed by fe…

Validating Woman's Knowledge and Experience: A Case Study of Women's Experien…

"This paper aims at demonstrating that women’s experiences and knowledge about food security are critical in order to create all inclusive and more comprehensive policies not only in food s…

The Merits and Limits of a Gendered Epistemology: Muslim Women and the Politi…

At their essence, feminist epistemologies argue that traditional male epistemologies have systematically removed the voice of women from knowledge production, effectively barring women from being…