The 1st African Feminist Forum program
The first Africfan Feminist Forum (AFF) was held from 15-19 November, 2006 at La Palm Royal Beach Hotel in Accra, Ghana. This document includes the welcome note, expected outcome and program conten…
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Between Knowing and Imagining: What Space for Feminism in Scholarship on Africa?
What does it mean to talk about the relationship between knowing and imagining? More than any apparently external frontier, it is the capacity to go beyond what is given, to fantasise, to create ne…
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Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way
In 1999, I was invited to speak at an international conference organized by the “Women Waging Peace Project” at Harvard University’s Kennedy School that attracted participants from some of th…
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Feminists Organising — Strategy, Voice, Power
Across the African continent, and from pre-colonial times to the contemporary era, women have organised to further their interests in social, cultural, political and economic domains (see e.g. Daym…
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Feminine Writing as an Alternative to the Patriarchal Language
In order to understand why and how feminine writing emerged, it is essential to have a knowledge of the system of the patriarchal language and its hegemonic power. One has to have a clear idea of t…
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Addressing Violence Against Women from Critical Feminist Perspectives: Challe…
A major accomplishment of women’s rights scholars and activists has been to make violence against women (VAW) visible. After decades of struggle, in a dramatic turn, VAW has become a highly pol…
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Archives and Collective Memories: Searching for African Women in the Pan-Afri…
In July 1985, Nairobi hosted a meeting of over 14,000 women at the United Nations’ Third World Conference on Women.2 Domestic and international women’s rights activists held a concurrent meet…
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Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday life in an In-Between City. By Caroli…
Set in Johannesburg’s inner city, central business district and adjacent northeast residential suburbs of Berea, Hillbrow and Yeoville, Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday life in an In-Bet…
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Gender-based Violence and Its Associated Effects on Female Students: The Case…
Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most prevalent human rights violations without considering social, economic, age, ethnicity, religion and national boundaries, and which affects the heal…
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In Idi Amin’s Shadow: Women, Gender and Militarism in Uganda. Alicia C Deck…
Like all good feminist works, In Idi Amin’s Shadow starts by refusing conventional wisdom – which is that Idi Amin Dada was a singular and sociopathic man, whose military rule in Uganda therefo…
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