Seeking the protection of LGBTI1 rights at the African Commission on Human an…

Over the past four years there has been a steadily growing movement of organising for the protection of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights at the African Commission o…

Intimate Partner Violence, Health Behaviours, and Chronic Physical Illness am…

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Feminism with a Big “F”: Ethics and the Rebirth of African Feminism in Ch…

The 21st century has seen an outpouring of works by African women writers and many of them have been unabashedly feminist. These works have one thing in common: they tell of bodies in pain and th…

Exploring Ideational Metafunction in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water: A Re-eval…

This article aims at applying some of the principles guiding Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to Helon Habila’s Oil On Water (2011). One of the major principles of Systemic Linguistics is that t…

Prosecuting Violence against Women in South African Courts: A Reflection of t…

Introduction: The first author participated in a course related to critical feminist schools of thought while pursuing her doctoral program. Engaging with a scholarly community of feminist research…

Introduction — Academic Freedom in Africa: Between Local Powers and Interna…

This issue re-addresses a recurring but indeed an important theme, that of academic freedom, in Africa. In most African countries, the traditional threats to the exercise of academic freedom, the p…

Biblical Moral Inquest into Tradition of Suspicion of Treachery on African Wo…

The 16 days which South Africa dedicates to the fight against the abuse of women and children every December is a reminder of the effects of gender inequalities in this country. Even though this …

Circumventing obstacles to the implementation of recommendations by the Afric…

The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights was inaugurated on 2 November 1987, with a mandate to promote and protect human rights in Africa. The commemoration of its thirtieth annivers…

Faith, Feminism and Fundamentalisms: Theo Sowa in plenary discussion with Eve…

This discussion of the nexus of religion, fundamentalisms and feminism on the continent took place at the 4th African Feminist Forum in Harare in April 2016.

Factors associated with HIV sero-status in young rural South African women: c…

Background This paper aims to describe factors associated with HIV sero-status in young, rural South African women and the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV. Methods A to…