Women Characters in the Novels of Ken Walibora: Victims or Winners?

Ken Walibora, one of the most well-known and promising authors in the new generation of Swahili writers in Kenya, may well be considered as a male-centric writer, since his novels published from 19…

Health and Reproductive Rights Portfolio: A look back at the last 14 years of…

The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) has funded women led initiatives and organizations that have prioritized certain issues under the Health and Reproductive Rights (HRR) theme in 26 Africa…

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 they…

The Millennium Development Goals (MD Goal 3) Brochure

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Recognition Survey Report- 2014

The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) conducted a Grantee Recognition Survey in May, 2014 to collect information on the recognition and influence attained by grantee partners and stakeholder …

Africa's Quest for Food Security

This history of urban agriculture in Africa dates to the colonial era when farming flourished in urban areas, largely to meet consumption needs of bureaucrats, settlers, and other elites. Urban agr…

To a Different Degree": Student Reflections on Gender and Women's Studies

This piece is therefore informed by a panel presentation of student experiences of GWS at particular South African institutions. Barabra Boswell shared her insights of GWS at the University of the …

Use of Effective Family Planning Methods and Frequency of Sex among HIV-infec…

Background: Frequency of sex, contraceptive use and HIV infection are key determinants of fertility. Use of an effective family planning (EFP) method (injectable, oral, intra-uterine contraceptive…

African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocati…

This paper examines some of the problems and dilemmas that African women scholars face in U.S. academic institutions: how such experiences inform the nature of their relationships with colleagues a…

Wrestling with Standpoint theory... Some Thoughts on Standpoint and African F…

This essay attempts to probe the theory of standpoint feminism, and the charge of epistemic privilege associated with the theory. Standpoint theory itself can be seen to have emerged in the context…