by Dzodzi Tsikata
On 9 March 2025, a day after International Women’s Day, Everjoice Jeketa Win, best known as EJ, became an ancestor, leaving us heartbroken and in deep mourning. EJ, a much-loved comrade, sister and friend to many, nurtured a generation of feminist activists and did so very much in her time with us to advance the feminist causes of African women. This colossal loss could not have come at a worse time for the feminist causes EJ spent her entire professional life defending in national, African and global spaces—at the Women’s Action Group, Women in Law and Development in Africa, ActionAid, Association for Women’s Rights in Development, the African Feminist Forum and JASS (Just Associates).
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