Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) and the Programme Officer on the Feminist Africa Project at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She also teaches Gender courses at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (CEGENSA), Institute of African Studies (IAS) and…
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About Feminist Africa
Cutting-edge, informative and provocative African scholarship attuned to feminist agendas.
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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.
Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent. By prioritising intellectual rigor, the journal seeks to challenge the technocratic fragmentation resulting from donor-driven and narrowly developmentalist work on gender in Africa. It also encourages innovation in terms of style and subject-matter as well as design and lay-out. It promotes dialogue by stimulating experimentation as well as new ways of engaging with text for readers.
Abena Kyere
Abena Kyere holds a Ph.D in African Studies. She is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, University of Ghana. Abena’s research interest is broadly in women and religion and women and popular culture. Her research is rooted in understanding the positioning of women in both religion and popular culture and…
Titilope Ajayi
Titilope is a PhD Candidate in International Affairs at the University of Ghana, studying gender and activism within the Boko Haram conflict., She is a three-time fellow of the Social Sciences Research Council, specialising in gender, conflict, security, and civil society. Over the past 15 years, she has conducted research and advocacy on these topics…
Raising the Veil — A Tribute to Bi Kidude (circa 1910-2013)
By Vicensia Shule We met Bi Kidude in 2003 in Zanzibar, when we were at the planning meeting for the African Feminist Congress. She liked to smoke and drink in public. She liked to sing in public. She also liked to straddle her drum and gyrate her hips as she beat that drum. She said…