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The Current State and Future of Feminist Organising in Africa

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From the Horn to North Africa, the Sahel, West Africa, Central Africa and Southern Africa, feminist movements are organising through converging crises shaped by militarisation, authoritarianism, extractive economies, climate injustice and widening inequality. While these crises unfold differently across contexts, they are connected through the enduring logics of colonialism, racial capitalism and contemporary geopolitical shifts.

African feminist movements are simultaneously confronting a vicious tightening of patriarchy’s grip through the coordinated forces of antigender and anti-rights movements. These actors are mobilising tirelessly to reverse decades of progress on gender justice, sexual and reproductive rights and bodily autonomy. This is accompanied by deliberate attacks on civic space, escalating violence against women activists and profound shifts in global funding. In responding to overlapping crises, African feminists are drawing on older feminist traditions and building new political infrastructures emerging through mutual aid, digital mobilisation, creative knowledge production, diaspora organising and cross-border solidarity often grounded in decolonial feminist politics. This paper traces how converging
crises are reshaping the terrain of feminist politics while examining the new feminist strategies, solidarities and political imaginaries emerging across Africa.

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Accra, Ghana : African Women\'s Development Fund (AWDF).,
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Feminist Organising in Africa
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