Published as a novel in 1973 and released as a film in 1974, Ousmane Sembene’s Xala offers his readers as well as his audience the most detailed display of one of his prominent themes: the role o…
This paper is based on personal stories as told by Kenyan women. The stories were compiled by the author in 2001 and 2002 when interviewing Kenyans on their views regarding the new constitution. Th…
This paper is based on personal stories as told by Kenyan women. The stories were compiled by the author in 2001 and 2002when interviewing Kenyans on their views regarding the new constitution. T…
This paper examines contemporary struggles over same-sex marriage in the daily lives of black lesbian- and gay-identified South Africans. Based primarily on 21 in-depth interviews with such South…
Child marriage are commonly used to refer to young people below the legal consent-giving age being forced into marriage. As forced marriages are often unofficial and undocumented, specific and reli…
This paper is guided by the feminist theoretical perspective which argues that if you want to know about women, you should start with women, for they know.
By harmful practices, we mean all practices done deliberately by men on the body or the psyche of other human beings for no therapeutic purpose, but rather for cultural or socio-conventional motive…
Child marriage has continued to be one of the major factors affecting the achievement of development indices and targets in Uganda.This report presents the findings of the study on Child Marriage a…
We hypothesise that the prospects of gender revolution (GR) is rising in Nigeria and may be swaying marriage timing and fertility. The 1990 and 2013 NDHS data and 45 in-depth interviews were anal…
The ethics of feminist research and activism undertaken by global Northerners operating in the global South has been a topic of ongoing debate for a number of years.1 Research or commentary underta…