Influencing Gender-Responsive Policies and Laws: A Practitioner Brief for Afr…

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Our Voices: Mapping the Needs of LBQ Women and Trans People in Ghana RESEARCH…

In 2016, activists and organisations from West and Central Africa met with COC Netherlands during the Changing Faces, Changing Spaces Conference (CFCS) held in Kenya to discuss and exchange best pr…

‘A proper woman, in the African tradition’: The construction of gender an…

This article discusses how Wangari Maathai’s life experiences narrated in her autobiography Unbowed offers an opportunity for discussing the contradictions surrounding the perception, place and i…

Models in the construction of female identity in Nigerian postcolonial litera…

Gendered identity in Africa has for centuries been a hotbed of ideological and narrative contestations. While colonial constructions of the African female were generally essentialist and negative i…

Gender Equality and Labour Law: Protecting Working Mothers, Girls and Female …

Labour law in Tanzania, deriving their legitimacy from the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania 1977 which prohibits gender based discrimination and guarantees equality between men and w…

Love, sex and gender: missing in African child and youth studies

In African childhood studies, ideas about love, sex and gender are often ignored. Despite love’s overarching presence children and young people are often written about as loveless. The study of A…

Feminist Africa 22 Feminists Organising — Strategy, Voice, Power

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 …

Bringing Gender Dimensions Back from Obscurity: Governance, Peace and Securit…

Attempts to address the gender dimensions of governance, peace and security in Africa are often plagued by several undermining tendencies. This paper discusses this disconnect between policy, schol…

Emerging gender issues as correlates to sustainable vocational agriculture ed…

This study examined emerging gender issues as correlates to sustainable vocational agriculture education in Taraba State, Nigeria. Four specific objectives and research questions guided the study. …

Strengthening gender research to improve Girls' and Women's education in Africa

As gender equality and women's empowerment are key to development efforts, research that seeks to influence these efforts must necessarily be gender sensitive and must shed light on the realities,c…