This profile explores notions of leadership by highlighting the perspectives of six leaders (five women, one man) from diverse backgrounds. They shared with me the challenges and pleasures of being…
Anyone who is passionate about women, gender and development in African contexts needs to interrogate discourses about African sexuality. These discourses have long histories of academic authority …
In this paper I discuss the issues and implications of simultaneously drawing upon Marxist and Postcolonial feminist approaches to organizational theorizing in developing a theoretical/analytical…
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…
Hackers and other geeks have long described their spaces as meritocratic. Geek feminists challenge this belief as a myth. In short, so-called meritocracies reproduce extant members and favor incide…
The human immuno- deficiency virus (HIV) pandemic is still ravaging, after the first case was diagnosed more than twenty years ago. Women are disproportionally affected, in 2008/2009 HIV prevalenc…
This case study takes a personal look at legal action taken against a Zambian hotel in Lusaka during the period 1984–1992 to stop their discrimination against women in access to the hotel. The …
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 …
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…
Ghanaian women’s agitations for economic justice have been a marked feature of their activism since pre-independence nationalist struggles, including the trade blockades of 1917 and 1918. Marke…