Two Tier Development: Women in Africa

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…

Women's movements and feminist activism

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…

Examining Diffusion to Understand the how of SASA!, a Violence Against Women …

Background: A growing number of complex public health interventions combine mass media with communitybased “change agents” and/or mobilisation efforts acting at multiple levels. While impact e…

Effect of HIV status on fertility intention and contraceptive use among women…

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Like Mother, Like Daughter: The Intergenerational Link Between Mother Activis…

The concept of motherhood is often paired with notions of nurturing and caretaking, but it is rarely seen in the context of activism or social and political change. Thus, by researching the relat…

Analysing the Monitoring Mechanisms of the African Women’s Protocol at the …

The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa was adopted under article 66 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights to supplement …

Are we There Yet? Perspectives on Women and Leadership

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Women and Noncommunicable Diseases in Africa: Mapping the scale, actors, and …

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a pan-African, women-led, grant-making foundation supporting African women’s organisations working at local, national, and regional level to promo…

Women Leading Africa: Conversations with Inspirational African Women

Leymah Gbowee, the Liberian Nobel Peace Prize laureate, told a story at AWDF’s 15th anniversary event. She had made a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo with a number of fellow Nobel Prize …

Feminism and Contemporary Culture in South Africa

This project1 was born out of the rapidly shifting cultural geographies of post-apartheid South Africa where the position of women illuminates critical issues about how the political and social str…