Welcome to Feminist Africa

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.

Current Issue

Feminist Africa 2026, Volume 7, Issue 1“Twenty Years of the African Feminist Forum”

by Sylvia Tamale We often hear the provocative remark: “the feminist movement is dead!” If feminism were truly dead, we would not see a global, ultra-conservative movement rising specifically to undo five decades of feminist achievements. Incubated by the crises of neoliberalism and imperialism and evolving into a new “hyper-imperialism,” ...

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Contents

Editorial
Alive and Growing: Twenty Years of the African Feminist Forum
– by Sylvia Tamale

Features

The Dynamics of Birthing a Continental Feminist Movement: From Zanzibar to Accra
– by Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi

The Challenge of Reimagining Our Culture: A Feminist Perspective
– by Fatou Sow

Standpoints

Pan-African Feminism in the Age of Neo-Imperial Apo-Collapse
– by Nancy Kachingwe

In Conversation

“Let the Steam Rise and the Truths Bubble as We Stir the Pot!”: Reflections of the Pioneer AFF Working Group
– Hope Chigudu moderates an online conversation among members. of the pioneer AFF Working Group

From the Feminist Charter to Beyoncé and Radical Optimism: Reflections of Younger African Feminists
– Jackline Kemigisa moderates an online conversation between young(er) African feminists

Profiles

The Uganda Feminist Forum: Single Sticks that Formed an Unbreakable Bundle
– by Sarah Mukasa

Somewhere We Can Talk: A Profile of the Young Feminist Collective
– by Maame Akua Kyerewaa-Marfo and Maame Adwoa Amoa-Marfo

Reflections on the African Feminist Ancestors Project: A Collaboration between the African Feminist Forum and Black Women Radicals
– by Jaimee A. Swift

Poems

A Toast to My Women
– by Wana Udobang

on spiders and ghosts
– by vangile gantsho

Time for Divorce
– by Coumba Toure

Reviews

African Feminist Praxis: Cartographies of Liberatory Worldmaking by Jessica Horn
– by Lamyaâ Achary

Tributes

Tribute to Professor Benedicta “Bene” Madunagu (1947-2024)
– by  Iheoma Obibi and Solumfeechi Odinkalu

Tribute to Everjoice Jeketa Win (1965-2025)
– by  Ennie Chipembere

Contributors

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