About Feminist Africa
Cutting-edge, Informative and Provocative African Scholarship Attuned to Feminist Agendas.
This is a publication of the Institute of African Studies and the University of Ghana. For enquiries, please e-mail us.
Feminist Africa is a continental gender studies journal produced by the community of feminist scholars. It provides a platform for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy. Feminist Africa attends to the complex and diverse dynamics of creativity and resistance that have emerged in postcolonial Africa, and the manner in which these are shaped by the shifting global geopolitical configurations of power.
Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent. By prioritising intellectual rigor, the journal seeks to challenge the technocratic fragmentation resulting from donor-driven and narrowly developmentalist work on gender in Africa.
It also encourages innovation in terms of style and subject-matter as well as design and layout. It promotes dialogue by stimulating experimentation as well as new ways of engaging with text for readers.
Feminist Africa is an open access journal that is free for both readers and authors. There is no Article Processing Charge (APC) or fees of any kind for articles accepted for publication.
Managing Editor
Dzodzi Tsikata
A Research Professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana. Her teaching, research, and advocacy focus on the areas of gender and development policies and practices, the gendered political economy of agrarian change, and informal labor relations and working conditions. Her publications include the co-edited book, Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora (with Cheryl Rodriguez and Akosua Adomako Ampofo). LexingtonBooks, 2015, and (with Ruth Hall and Ian Scoones) “Africa’s Land Rush: Implications for Rural Livelihoods and Agrarian Change” (Boydell and Brewer Ltd; 2015). She is a member of the editorial collective of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy and Feminist Economics. She is the immediate past president of CODESRIA.
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Feminist Africa Editorial Policy and Style Guide
Our Editorial Policy and Style Guide provides essential guidelines for contributors seeking to engage with the journal’s mission of advancing feminist knowledge production across the African continent. As a leading platform for critical feminist scholarship and activism, Feminist Africa curates submissions through periodic thematic calls, ensuring alignment with its commitment to feminist politics and rigorous gender analysis. This guide outlines the editorial policies, submission procedures, and stylistic expectations necessary for authors to contribute effectively to ongoing dialogues on social, political, and cultural transformation in Africa.