Feminist Africa is guided by a profound commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa, and seeks to redress injustice and inequality in its content and design, and by its open-access and …
In this article, I consider how women in the former colony of Southern Rhodesia and contemporary Zimbabwe were and still are defined as “respectable” or “unrespectable”. I go on to draw out…
This article explores the concept of “sexual rights” and what this means in the context of state-sponsored and publicly supported homophobia across the African continent. It explores the grow…
By focusing on relationships among women, I seek to explore the erotics of several arenas in public, private and social life both at the centre and the margins of dominant heteronormative relations…
This article seeks to explore, at a theoretical level, the broad trajectories of recent African feminist engagements with ideas about gender and violence, and argues that while there is evidence of…
In this article, I describe and analyse women’s activism where I have encountered it in these three settings. From the self analysis and personal transformation processes in each setting I reflec…
This article investigates a tension between the theoretical conceptualisation of sexual violence in conflict situations, and the reality of sexual violence. The author puts forth that despite a str…
This article examines the idea of “a better life for all” promised to South Africans in the early post-apartheid era and reveals how deeply troubled it is by sexual politics, gendered power and…