This article serves as an introduction to a symposium commemorating the thirty-first anniversary of Darlene Clark Hine’s 1989 essay “Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West: …
Weaving Kenya is a feminist collective formed in 2012 as a staging ground for women’s collaborative and cooperative creativity. In a cyber-space anchored in Nairobi, a group of Weaving women conv…
Contextualising Gender, Peace and Security Post-Cold war global security shifts in the early 1990s created the space for a rethink of the dominant conceptualisations of security. Key questions coul…
2012 has been an eventful year for the African Women's Development Fund (AWDF). AWDF has made in supporting women led initiatives to transform their
Animal milk is an important contributor to women’s dietary diversity, especially among pastoral communities where access to diverse diets is limited. While there have been numerous large-scale …
Women face many barriers in accessing markets for their agricultural products. Collective action (CA) has been identified as a potential option to overcome such barriers and empower them. As such, …
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…
Plants are commonly used during the antenatal stage in pregnancy to manage different ailments in Africa. In Uganda, both medicinal and food plants are used to handle common pregnancy related condit…
Employing a feminist lens that places emphasis on women’s agency South African feminists have challenged the dominant narrative of hapless women who need external saviours to climb out of poverty…
Use of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services is low amongst young people in Senegal. Although the evidence base on young people’s SRH needs is growing, research on access to SRH services …