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Haunted Airports and Sexual Anxieties in Nana Nyarko Boateng’s “Swallowing Ice”
Read more: Haunted Airports and Sexual Anxieties in Nana Nyarko Boateng’s “Swallowing Ice”Abstract This essay argues that the airport is an international…
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Africanfuturism and the Reframing of Gender in the Fiction of Nnedi Okorafor
Read more: Africanfuturism and the Reframing of Gender in the Fiction of Nnedi OkoraforAbstract Marvel’s Black Panther movie, released in 2018, sparked renewed…
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Gender and Sexuality in African Futurism
Read more: Gender and Sexuality in African FuturismThis Feminist Africa issue was inspired by my weekly conversations…
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Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture by Simidele Dosekun
Read more: Fashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture by Simidele DosekunFashioning Postfeminism: Spectacular Femininity and Transnational Culture seeks to recentre…
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Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses by Hilary Matfess
Read more: Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses by Hilary MatfessWomen and the War on Boko Haram is a bold…
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“Cinderellas” of Our Mozambique Wish to Speak: A Feminist Perspective on Extractivism
Read more: “Cinderellas” of Our Mozambique Wish to Speak: A Feminist Perspective on ExtractivismAbstract Mozambique is currently undergoing an intense cycle of extractive…
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“I’m not a feisty bitch, I’m a feminist!” Feminism in AWAKE! Women of Africa
Read more: “I’m not a feisty bitch, I’m a feminist!” Feminism in AWAKE! Women of AfricaIntroduction Although being an African, a sex worker and a…
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Rape: A South African Nightmare, by Pumla Dineo Gqola. Johannesburg: MF Books, an imprint of Jacana Media (PTY) Ltd, 2015
Read more: Rape: A South African Nightmare, by Pumla Dineo Gqola. Johannesburg: MF Books, an imprint of Jacana Media (PTY) Ltd, 2015In the two years since the publication of Pumla Gqola’s…