Women's Agency and the State: The Kenyan Experience

The 80s and 90s, (highlighted as the decade as some of the most significant for women's organising globally), were for us in Kenya the dark days of the Moi dictatorship. There were …

Struggles over Land, Livelihood, and Future Possibilities: Reframing Displace…

In this article, I use feminist political ecology to reframe displacement with the intention of revealing its multiscalar, micropolitical, and differentiated dimensions. Rebecca Elmhirst writes, …

Intellectual Politics and Radical Feminist Praxis

Writing a piece on the politics of becoming intellectual - something that so many African women are terrified of - made me realise what a rare opportunity I had been presented with to say some of t…

On Transnational Feminist Solidarity: The Case of Angela Davis in Egypt

In the early 1970s Angela Davis, one of the most visible faces in US Marxist and feminist activism, visited Egypt. The result of the trip was not only a fascinating account of her experiences, pu…

Self-Saving Princess: Feminism and Post-Play Narrative Modding

This paper explores and investigates the myriad of ways that video game narratives get modded post-play for feminist purposes (intentionally and unintentionally). We will look at modding through cu…

Achieving Transformative Feminist Leadership : A Toolkit for Organisations an…

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Empowerment, Resistance, and the Birth Control Pill: A Feminist Analysis of C…

The vast majority of literature on the use of contraception focuses on its frequently documented connection to socioeconomic development. Thus, contraception has become a favored programmatic eleme…

Conceptualizing Gender: The Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and…

In this paper, my objective is to interrogate gender and allied concepts based on African cultural experiences and epistemologies. The focus here is on the nuclear family system, which is a specif…

Disrupting Orthodoxies in Economic Development — An African Feminist Perspe…

In recent years, women’s economic empowerment (WEE) has been the focus of perhaps the most intensive spotlight to date within the international development global arena. The creation of the UN …

Not One, Not Two: Toward an Ontology of Pregnancy

Basic understandings of subjectivity are derived from principles of masculine embodiment such as discreteness. But pregnancy challenges such understandings because it represents a sort of splitti…