Feminist Africa Writing Workshop, 6 October - 9 October 2025, Kampala, Uganda
Submission deadline: 30th April 2025
Feminist Africa is a continental Gender Studies Journal that was established in 2002 at the African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town. Following the Yiri Consensus of 2018, the journal moved homes to the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. For over twenty years it has provided a cutting-edge platform designed for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy for postcolonial feminism. Feminist Africa is a transformative, anti-imperialist and anti-colonial scholarly journal that works by “building skills as it grows” through a suite of collaborative training interventions, internships and workshops.
In this spirit, Feminist Africa seeks to provide Africa-based early career researchers working on feminist/gender analysis in the social sciences with the space and intellectual community to transform a draft paper into a publishable journal piece. The need for such a workshop comes from the observation that although there is significant feminist research being conducted especially at graduate level, much of it remains unpublished and therefore its visibility and impact is minimal beyond the thesis. One way of intervening in the basic research-to-publication pipeline in order to enhance production of feminist knowledge is by bridging the training and mentorship gap in the writing process. In this regard, the 4-day writing workshop is designed to provide early career scholars with a grounded understanding of feminist methodologies, gender analysis and academic writing. The ultimate objective is to deepen the footprint and impact of feminist research and publications done by early career researchers in Africa.
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