Feminism in Africa and African Women’s Writing

Feminism developed out of the discontents of women in the West. Although African women, over the ages, have always been sensitive to all forms of discrimination within the African society, the emer…

Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture

This special issue comes at a time when the Egyptian nation is facing deep divisions about the notion and definition of revolution. The articles here aim to look at the 2011 revolution and the ce…

Urinary tract disease prevalence amongst pregnant women in South-eastern Nigeria

This study is based on the prevalence of Urinary Tract Disease (UTIs) amongst pregnant women in Nigeria attending antenatal clinics at hospitals. Factors that predispose an individual to UTI. List…

Can Africana Women Truly Embrace Ecological Feminism?

My starting point in this essay is that, if it can be ascertained that there is something called Black African feminism (which represents the interests of some Black African women) as claimed by fe…

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.

Genital mycoplasmas in women attending the Yaoundé University Teaching Hospi…

Genital mycoplasmas are implicated in pelvic inflammatory diseases, puerperal infection, septic abortions, low birth weight, nongonococcal urethritis and prostatitis as well as spontaneous abor…

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.

Women’s Civic-Political Participation Towards an Equitable and Humane Democ…

The kind of governance that Nigerians experienced since the pre-independence period has been criticized for, among other reasons, having been characterized by low-level citizen participation. Key…