Fourth African Feminist Forum 2016: Voice, Power and Soul
The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) hosted the fourth regional African Feminist Forum (AFF) in Harare, Zimbabwe from 10-12 April 2016 under the theme, African Feminism: Voice, Power and Sou…
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Women's World: Tracing 'Feminist Peace' from Beijing to MDGs and Beyond
"Since 1996, Isis WICCE has demonstrated an impressive alternative to the world's limited responses to situations of armed conflict particularly in addressing women's dire needs. The organization …
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Think Tank 4 on Strengthening Women Leaders' Base Camp
"In this report, we start by exploring the journeys of Isis-WICCE and UAF-Africa as they work with women across the continent. We learn about their achievements in supporting and unleashing the pot…
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The Joys, Hurts and Traumas of the Women's Movement
"Friendship in the women's movement has been enriching, nurturing, sustaining and life giving. The movement has provided emotional support, loyalty and comradeship. But at the same time, many women…
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African Women: Voicing Feminisms and Democratic Futures
"The need to support the cause of feminism and social justice in Africa has never been stronger than it is under the present condition of chronic neocolonialism. News about modern Africa today shou…
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African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocati…
This paper examines some of the problems and dilemmas that African women scholars face in U.S. academic institutions: how such experiences inform the nature of their relationships with colleagues a…
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Women Nationalists in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Ghana and Zimbabwe: Ca…
Nation and nationalism have been associated with masculinity. Nations and states are often envisioned through heroic narratives. According to these narratives, nations are formed through the blood …
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Wrestling with Standpoint theory... Some Thoughts on Standpoint and African F…
This essay attempts to probe the theory of standpoint feminism, and the charge of epistemic privilege associated with the theory. Standpoint theory itself can be seen to have emerged in the context…
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Putting them in their place: “respectable” and “unrespectable” women …
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…
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Ama Ata Aidoo’s Woman-Centred Pan- Africanism: A reading of selected works
This paper examines the pan-African perspective that informs Ama Ata Aidoo’s body of work. It situates the author’s work within the seemingly male-dominated pan-African discourse of the 1960s a…
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