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Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa by Naminata Diabete. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020.
Read more: Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa by Naminata Diabete. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020.“At the time when I was naked, I felt so…
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Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa, edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021
Read more: Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa, edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021Writing the Self, Re-telling and Positioning Surfacing is an anthology…
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“That Woman is a Farmer”: Gender and the Changing Character of Commercial Agriculture in Zimbabwe
Read more: “That Woman is a Farmer”: Gender and the Changing Character of Commercial Agriculture in ZimbabweFemale participation in commercial agriculture as part of women’s work…
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A Magnifying Glass and A Fine-Tooth Comb: Understanding Girls’ and Young Women’s Sexual Vulnerability, by Mzikazi Nduna. Pretoria: CSA&G Press, Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, University of Pretoria, 2020.
Read more: A Magnifying Glass and A Fine-Tooth Comb: Understanding Girls’ and Young Women’s Sexual Vulnerability, by Mzikazi Nduna. Pretoria: CSA&G Press, Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender, University of Pretoria, 2020.While reading this monograph, one could not help but be…
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Challenging Gender Orders? Small Ruminant Husbandry Interventions in Ghana’s Upper West Region
Read more: Challenging Gender Orders? Small Ruminant Husbandry Interventions in Ghana’s Upper West RegionThe popularity of development interventions as a tool for women’s…
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The Struggle is Real: Fighting the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Pandemic in the time of COVID-19
Read more: The Struggle is Real: Fighting the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Pandemic in the time of COVID-19The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified women’s multiple vulnerabilities. The economy…
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Intimate Archives: Rethinking Gender Studies in Africa – Srila Roy and Caio Simões De Araújo speak with Simidele Dosekun, Oluwakemi Balogun, and Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Read more: Intimate Archives: Rethinking Gender Studies in Africa – Srila Roy and Caio Simões De Araújo speak with Simidele Dosekun, Oluwakemi Balogun, and Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta MougouéOn 14 April 2021, the Governing Intimacies: Sexualities, Gender and…
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When the Lagoons Remember: An Afroqueer Futurist Reading of “Blue Ecologies of Agitation”
Read more: When the Lagoons Remember: An Afroqueer Futurist Reading of “Blue Ecologies of Agitation”Abstract In this essay, I conduct an afroqueer futurist reading…
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“One Foot on the Other Side”: An Africanfuturist Reading of Irenosen Okojie’s Butterfly Fish (2015) and Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018)
Read more: “One Foot on the Other Side”: An Africanfuturist Reading of Irenosen Okojie’s Butterfly Fish (2015) and Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater (2018)Abstract This essay argues that Africanfuturism is present in a…