This issue of Feminist Africa reflects on both the impact of COVID-19 on African women and African women’s responses to the pandemic. As a continent, Africa has endured decades of economic, political and social crises. Since the colonial period, the continent has been a primary commodity producer, supplying the world with both mineral resources such as gold, diamonds, coltan, manganese as well as bauxite and agricultural exports such as coffee, tea and cocoa. The prices of primary commodities are very volatile (Ocran and Biekpe, 2007) leading to cyclical economic crises on the continent.
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Editorial
African Women’s Lives in the Time of a Pandemic
– by Akosua K. Darkwah
Features
COVID-19 Recovery and Beyond: An African Feminist Vision for Macroeconomic System Change
– by Wangari Kinoti and Fatimah Kelleher
Negotiating Spaces, Exercising Agency, and Managing Multiple Roles: The Lived Experiences of University of Ghana Women Academics under COVID-19
– by Mjiba Frehiwot, Deborah Atobrah and Irene Appeaning-Addo
Gender Blind Spots in COVID-19 Containment and Mitigation Measures in Burkina Faso and Ghana
– by Akosua K. Darkwah, Dorte Thorsen and Madeleine Wayack Pambè
Standpoint
A Tale of Two Worlds amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: Is a New More Just Economic Order Possible?
– by Leah Eryenyu
In a Conversation
A Female Inventor Ahead of her Time – Akosua K. Darkwah speaks with Veronica Bekoe
Frontlines
Bouncing Back and Developing Elasticity During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Exploring Intergenerational Partnerships and Interventions among Grassroots Women’s Organisations to Address COVID-19-Related Challenges in Rural Western Cape, South Africa
– by Vainola Makan and Wendy Pekeur
The Struggle is Real: Fighting the Sexual and Gender-Based Violence and Femicide Pandemic in time of COVID-19
– by Jean-Pierre
The Response of the Women’s Fund Tanzania Trust During COVID-19
– by Shamillah Wilson
Reviews
A Magnifying Glass and a Fine-tooth Comb: Understanding Girls’ and Young Women’s Sexual Vulnerability by Mzikazi Nduna
– by Peace Kiguwa and Thobeka Nkomo
When the Light is Fire: Maasai Schoolgirls in Contemporary Kenya by Heather D. Switzer
- by Monique Kwachou