International Efforts on Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM), sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital cutting, isa harmful cultural practice without any known health benefit. Its short-term and long-term…

Gender, Farmwork, and Women's Migration from Lesotho to the New South Africa

On a observe ces dix dernikres annees une importante augmentation du nombre des femmes venues d'etats voisins emigrer en Afrique du sud. La spdcificite and le caractere profondement fiminin de ce m…

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…