By Charmaine PereiraThe focus of Feminist Africa 22 – “Feminists Organising” – implies a vision, a sense of alternative possibilities of greater social justice alongside the liberation of women from all sources of oppression, and collective feminist energies being mobilised to bring about change in this direction. How have feminists in Africa organised and what…
Author: Charmaine Pereira
Charmaine Pereira is a feminist scholar-activist living and working in Abuja, Nigeria. She edited FA special issue 22 on the theme of ‘Feminists Organising – Strategy, Voice, Power’. Her research and writing addresses themes such as feminist thought and practice, the gender and sexual politics of violence, women organising and the state. She is the author of Gender in the Making of the Nigerian University System (James Currey/Partnership for Higher Education in Africa, 2007) and editor of Changing Narratives of Sexuality: Contestations, Compliance and Women’s Empowerment (Zed, 2014). Pereira has been an active force in the coalition pushing for the passage of the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015, and is currently Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Legislative Advocacy Coalition on Violence Against Women (LACVAW).