Gender represents a confounding social construction within the multiple-layering of relative disenfranchisement in the Sub-Saharan context of poverty. Class and race play a significant role in the …
In this article, we identify African countries with a similar development level based on selected women’s development indicators. To assess the development levels, we used the following indicator…
Igbo language belongs to the Igbo sub-group within Benue-kwa in the new west Benue Congo (Williamson & Blench, 2000). It is chiefly spoken in the South-Eastern geo-political zone of Nigeria. In the…
This paper explores of the diverse ways through which organised religion, personal spiritual convictions, culture and the law shape, challenge and potentially transform the sexualities of African p…
It is impossible to describe the depth of the ugliness, rage, revulsion, disgust and malevolence exhibited by the vocal homophobic public. The few voices in support of homosexual rights were drowne…
Over the last two decades the contributions and achievements as well as failures of women’s movements and women’s activism have been well documented in manuscripts that have specifically focu…
The eradication of poverty and sustainable development cannot be achieved without a focus on social transformations that empower the most marginalized. A transformation goal on gender equality need…
The research findings reveal that the majority of the governments in the ICGLR have made great strides to fulfil their commitments to prevent SGBV, punish perpetrators and support survivors as stat…
All too often the lives of LGBTI people in the East Africa are characterized by isolation, the burden of stigma, discrimination and violation. But they are very much normal human lives with everyda…
Anyone who is passionate about women, gender and development in African contexts needs to interrogate discourses about African sexuality. These discourses have long histories of academic authority …