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…
Category: About Feminist Africa
Sharon Adetutu Omotoso
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
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 (PhD)
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
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,…
Faustina Obeng Adomaa
Faustina Obeng Adomaa is a gender enthusiast and critical geographer whose work is at the intersection of micro- and macro- level agrarian changes, social relations, and economic structures. She is particularly interested in the politics of global agriculture commodity chains, and climate change, and their ramifications on local agrarian livelihoods, land and labour relations, food security,…
Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong
Adwoa Yeboah Gyapong is a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), Erasmus University Rotterdam, where she obtained her PhD in Development Studies. Her area of interest is the political economy of development, particularly contestations around land, labour and food. Her research is situated in critical perspectives on differentiation, particularly gender, age, and class dynamics…
Dorothy Takyiakwaa
Dorothy Takyiakwaa is a Lecturer in Gender Studies and Urban Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Cape Coast. She is also Researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation, University of Cape Coast. Dorothy has a PhD in Urban Sociology from the University of Cape Coast where her theses…
Belinda Smith
Belinda Smith is interested in gender issues that concern domestic violence, access to education, girls’ empowerment, and body image. She is especially curious about beauty practices that pursue an ideal of a unified femininity resulting in the cultural homogenization of women’s appearance as well as their lives. In this vein, women are classified according to whether or not they conform to the idealized body within their society….
Feminist Africa 2020: Gender and Rural Livelihoods, Volume 2, Issue 2
Guest Editor Ekua BiritwumNumerous studies have sought to unravel the social and economic dynamics of rural women’s constraints in accessing and controlling productive resources in agriculture. A focus largely informed by the high prevalence of poverty amongst rural women. At the policy level there have been several interventions to overcome resource access constraints to boost…