Adolescent Sex and ‘Defilement’ in Malawi Law and Society

During colonisation Malawi received a Western penal code, which included the ‘defilement’ provision, restricting males from sexually accessing girls below a specified age. Countries that main…

Gender and transnational histories of Libya

This series of articles focuses on Libya to investigate how individual and collective identities are imagined, experienced, and narrated in a mobile and interconnected world. Drawing from original …

Debunking Patriarchal Legacy in African Traditional Setting: A Reading of Efo…

This article investigates the critical views of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe on some African traditional customs which deny identity and welfare to women and his literary endeavor to unravel the patriarchal…

Feminist Africa Issue 14. 2010: Rethinking Gender and Violence

Feminist Africa seeks to take stock, as it were, of some contemporary thinking on gender and violence.

Reclaiming Popular Culture to Promote Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment

In order to further promote gender equality and women's empowerment, there is a need for women's rights organisations to adopt strategies that can target a mass base of the population if perception…

Feminist Africa Issue 13. 2009: Body Politics and Citizenship

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Cost of Gender Gaps in the Agricultural Sector: The case of Kenya and Rwanda

This study was to analyze the cost of the gender gap in agriculture in both Kenya and Rwanda.

Gender-based Genre Conventions and the Critical Reception of Buchi Emechetaâ€â€¦

A gendered spatial schema of war – which creates a dichotomy between a masculine battlefront and a feminine home-front – undermines the credibility of women’s participation in battle, impac…

HIV AND WOMEN AT RISK: An analysis of the policy, legal and socio-structural …

The HIV epidemic in South Africa continues to be driven by gender inequalities and harmful gender norms that promote unsafe sex and reduce access to sexual and reproductive health services for wome…

Digi-Blogging Gender Violence: Intersecting Ethnicity, Race, Migration and Gl…

Many of us, as new media researchers and feminists, have struggled with understanding the contexts that frame discourses about women of color and the place of gender studies within global digital c…