Although achieving seed security is quite different from attaining food security, the crisis of food insecurity can be traced to seed insecurity. A discussion of food security, without paying atten…
African women from all walks of life have made substantive contributions to the preparation of the post-2015 development agenda. A lot remains to be done, however, and we want to make sure to go fo…
Full disclosure: I had a serious crush on King and Malcolm X back in the day. I was infatuated by their Black radical voice and political courage. As a high school teen in a predominantly white and…
We welcome our government's commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda. The action agenda of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development and the African Minis…
As an urban feminist geographer with a research interest in African cities, I was initially pleased when the web series, An African City, debuted in 2014. The series was released on YouTube and als…
One critical issue that is highly overlooked in developing regions is the family embeddedness of women entrepreneurs, even though the women in developing countries simultaneously hold several roles…
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 ev…
Toni Morrison explores the complexities of race, gender, and matrilineal influence in Sula. Although much recent feminist criticism has addressed the operations of race and gender in the novel, thi…
Before the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) came power in early 1980, its leaders repeatedly emphasized the party's commitment to improving the position of women in independent Zimbabwe. "For…
Dual method use, use of condoms plus another effective contraceptive method, is important in settings with high rates of unintended pregnancy and HIV infection.We evaluated the association of HIV …