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,…
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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…
Feminist Africa 2020 – Volume 2, Issue 1: Resistance to Extractivism and the Search for Alternatives
International public and private sector players are currently exhibiting considerable predatory interest in Africa, viewing the continent as a source of vast natural resources as well as potential markets. This is happening at a time when deepening fractures and inequalities within African countries, increasing immiseration and soaring unemployment characterise living conditions across the continent. Growth…
Edwina Ashie-Nikoi
Edwina Ashie-Nikoi is an archivist and historian of the African Diaspora with particular interest in the ways peoples of African descent choose to document themselves. Among other aspects, her research interrogates the gendered dimensions of how experiences of subjugation and oppression are remembered and represented. Dr. Ashie-Nikoi holds a PhD in History from New York…
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…
Amina Mama
Amina Mama is a Nigerian/British feminist researcher, academic & consultant whose professional career spans European, African and U.S. institutions. She has dedicated much of her time to creating institutional spaces for strengthening radical intellectual work, teaching, research and publication, and film. Her major publications include Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995), co-edited…
Dzodzi Tsikata
Dzodzi Tsikata is Research Professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies (IAS) at the University of Ghana. Her teaching, research and advocacy are in the areas of gender and development policies and practices; the gendered political economy of agrarian change; and informal labour relations and conditions of work. Her publications include the co-edited…