Category: About Feminist Africa

Abena Takyiwa Yeboah is the Programme Officer on the Feminist Africa Project at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.

Dinnah Nabwire has 12 years of work experience supporting intervention designs for sexual and reproductive health, violence prevention, mental health and psychosocial support programmes targeting women and children in development, humanitarian, and post-conflict settings. She has served in knowledge management, policy, advocacy, research, learning and communications capacities in national, regional and international organisations with physical placement…

Sethunya Mosime is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Botswana. She has a multidisciplinary background in Sociology, Political Science, Social Anthropology, Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. Her research and teaching interests are around the rights of political and social minorities across ethnicity, gender and sexuality,…

Asanda Benya is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. Her work focuses on the intersection of gender, class and race. She teaches in and convenes the Industrial Sociology stream. She has published in labour and feminist journals in areas of women in mining, gender and the extractive industries,…

Deborah Atobrah holds an MPhil and a PhD in African Studies from the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Dr Atobrah is a fellow of Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health’s prestigious Takemi Program in Global Health. She is also a Catalyst Fellow at the Centre of African Studies at the University of…

Sanyu Penelope is a lawyer, weaver, creator, designer, nurturer, writer, and scholar who is committed to the questions of how to create spaces for learning, beauty, and healing in the world and how to stand in solidarity with those who need it. She is an artist, mover, activist, organiser, and co-operator.  She is passionate about…

Sharon Adetutu Omotoso, a feminist philosopher, is currently a Senior Research Fellow (Gender/Media Studies) at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, where she heads the Institute’s Women’s Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC). Dr Omotoso is Director at the Centre for Applied Ethics and Political Communication in Africa (CAEPOCOM AFRICA), an alumna of the…

Mjiba Frehiwot is a Research Fellow in the History and Politics Section of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana. Her teaching, research, and advocacy interests are in the areas of Pan-African Political Thought, African Diaspora, Cultural and Political Identity, Made in Africa Evaluation, and the Decolonisation of knowledge production in Global…

Amanda Odoi is a feminist, development practitioner, gender, and social justice advocate, and an academic. Amanda is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation (CEGRAD), University of Cape Coast, where she engages in research, advocacy training, and teaching activities on women’s and gender issues for the university community and external…

Sylvia Ohene Marfo is a food studies scholar and holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Ghana. Her research interest includes but is not limited to the Sociology of food and agriculture and Anthropology of food and eating, especially constructing ethnic identity through foodways. She has extensive qualitative research experience in girls’ education,…