About Feminist Africa
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Join Our Team: Programme Officer
Read more: Join Our Team: Programme OfficerFeminist Africa, a gender studies journal hosted at the Institute…
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Words to follow and honour: Dr. Sethunya Tshepho Mosime
Read more: Words to follow and honour: Dr. Sethunya Tshepho MosimeWhen Sethunya walked into a room, the light changed. Not…
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Tribute to Dr Sethunya Tshepho Mosime
Read more: Tribute to Dr Sethunya Tshepho MosimeDr. Sethunya Tshepho Mosime—a beloved scholar, teacher, advisor, feminist, friend,…
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Wordoc Seminar Series
Read more: Wordoc Seminar SeriesWhen ‘She’ is the Crook: Feminized corruption and women’s political…
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Feminist Internationalism and Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization
Read more: Feminist Internationalism and Resistance to Neoliberal GlobalizationProfessor Sylvia Tamale is a leading African feminist and scholar.…
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Digitalisation AI and Feminist Futures Conference Programme
Read more: Digitalisation AI and Feminist Futures Conference ProgrammeDigitalisation AI and Feminist Futures Conference Programme
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The End SARS Women’s Coalition: Exploring the Persistence of Women’s Movements through Feminist Generations
Read more: The End SARS Women’s Coalition: Exploring the Persistence of Women’s Movements through Feminist GenerationsAbstract This article situates the #EndSARS women’s activism within the…
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African Women’s Lives in the Time of a Pandemic
Read more: African Women’s Lives in the Time of a PandemicThis issue of Feminist Africa reflects on both the impact…
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Feminist Africa 2020: Gender and Rural Livelihoods, Volume 2, Issue 2
Read more: Feminist Africa 2020: Gender and Rural Livelihoods, Volume 2, Issue 2Guest Editor Ekua BiritwumNumerous studies have sought to unravel the…
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Feminist Africa 2020 – Volume 2, Issue 1: Resistance to Extractivism and the Search for Alternatives
Read more: Feminist Africa 2020 – Volume 2, Issue 1: Resistance to Extractivism and the Search for AlternativesInternational public and private sector players are currently exhibiting considerable…
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Tribute: Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf and Her ‘Jihad’ of the Heart (December 1952–September 2015)
Read more: Tribute: Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf and Her ‘Jihad’ of the Heart (December 1952–September 2015)Born December 2, 1952 in Kano, Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf passed…
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Dreadlocks as a Symbol of Resistance: Performance and Reflexivity
Read more: Dreadlocks as a Symbol of Resistance: Performance and ReflexivityPerformance auto-ethnography, an interdisciplinary qualitative research praxis, combines auto-ethnography and…
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The weave as an ‘unhappy’ technology of black femininity
Read more: The weave as an ‘unhappy’ technology of black femininityBlack women everywhere seem to be in weaves these days.…
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The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World. Edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano for DAWN. London: Zed Books, 2014
Read more: The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World. Edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano for DAWN. London: Zed Books, 2014DAWN – Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era…
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Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Postapartheid. By Gabeba Baderoon. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2014.
Read more: Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Postapartheid. By Gabeba Baderoon. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2014.Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Postapartheid is a pioneering study…
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Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. By Tanisha C. Ford. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2015
Read more: Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. By Tanisha C. Ford. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2015Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of…
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Profile: ‘Keep Your Eyes off My Thighs’: A Feminist Analysis of Uganda’s ‘Miniskirt Law’
Read more: Profile: ‘Keep Your Eyes off My Thighs’: A Feminist Analysis of Uganda’s ‘Miniskirt Law’Introduction On February 6, 2014, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed…
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Doing Beauty as African Feminists: A Conversation between Aleya Kassam, Fatma Emam, Valérie Bah and Yewande Omotoso
Read more: Doing Beauty as African Feminists: A Conversation between Aleya Kassam, Fatma Emam, Valérie Bah and Yewande OmotosoFour feminists from different parts of the continent converse, electronically,…
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Skimpy Fashion and Sexuality in Sheebah Karungi’s Performances
Read more: Skimpy Fashion and Sexuality in Sheebah Karungi’s PerformancesMyriad factors determine people’s choice of dress for any particular…
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“These Girls’ Fashion is Sick!”: An African City and the Geography of Sartorial Worldliness
Read more: “These Girls’ Fashion is Sick!”: An African City and the Geography of Sartorial WorldlinessThey are the noble savages, staring out from coffee table…
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Contesting Beauty: Black Lesbians on the Stage
Read more: Contesting Beauty: Black Lesbians on the StageIntroduction The 1995 publication, Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives…
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African Women Do Not Look Good in Wigs: Gender, Beauty Rituals and Cultural Identity in Anglophone Cameroon, 1961-1972
Read more: African Women Do Not Look Good in Wigs: Gender, Beauty Rituals and Cultural Identity in Anglophone Cameroon, 1961-1972“Nebuchadnezzar lived in the bush and his nails became so…
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The politics of fashion and beauty in Africa
Read more: The politics of fashion and beauty in AfricaFrom wigs and weaves to skin-bleaching to the clothes that…
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Contributors
Read more: ContributorsKehinde Awofeso is a former banker, an artist and a…