This study seeks to examine and analyze the different ways in which African women leaders in their respective capacities in civil society, political parties and in government/State institutions h…
he Leadership and Governance programme is based on our knowledge of the persistent challenges of African women’s organisations with issues related to resource mobilisation, communications, govern…
This article focuses on the Anti-Eviction Campaign (AEC) in Cape Town, South Africa, which is part of the larger anti-privatization movement, mobilized by disadvantaged township residents to asse…
Isis-WICCE has trained about one thousand two hundred women from twenty nine countries. Utilizing this number the organization continues to facilitate and strengthen the activities of the trained w…
This issue of the African Women's Journal explores both the individual and collective experiences of the past, aspiring or current women in power/politics. The articles speak to some of the persist…
While the use of affirmative action to increase women’s political participation in societies where socio-cultural factors militate against women’s political interests, popular measures do not g…
This paper examines the myth and reality of Women in politics and the attendant core issues. In the process, the historical dimension and/or, backdrop of Women’s political actions and inactions w…
This publication breaks the silence regarding women's sexuality. Governments, women's rights activists and other social movements, often fail to understand the connection between sex work, forced e…
This publication makes a set of observations which, in part, explain the absence of a qualitative shift towards gender equality in these fields. it also offers some proposals for relocating gender …
The discourse of the wobbly state of the Nigerian nation is aptly captured in literary works. Previous studies on literary texts about the Nigerian state have largely identified bad leadership and …