by Olivia Burton AbstractIn South Africa, the existing system continues to preserve unequal gendered citizenship rights based on colonial and apartheid hierarchies. Despite a rightsbased legal platform, the state reproduces racism, xenophobia, and patriarchy, creating a multitude of vulnerabilities for Black migrant women. The COVID19 pandemic and related restrictions have deepened global inequality, heightening the…
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Theorising Gender, Class, and Mobility in Africa: Hegemony, Critiques, and Feminist Interventions
by Faisal Garba and Dorothy Takyiakwaa AbstractDominant migration scholarship has framed African mobility as an empirical anomaly to be explained through theories developed elsewhere, rather than as a starting point for theorising migration itself. This article argues that feminist development frameworks, including Women in Development, Women and Development, and Gender and Development, reproduce the same…
Editorial: Gender, Class, and Mobility from the 1980s”
by Dorothy Takyiakwaa and Faisal Garba How do gender and class intersect with the experience of mobility? While movement from one geographical location to another and the aspiration to move from one social position to the next are intrinsic to social life, state structures, the market, and related practices of assigning different values and opportunities…
Feminist Africa 2026, Volume 7, Issue 2 “Gender, Class, and Mobility from the 1980s”
How do gender and class intersect with the experience of mobility? While movement from one geographical location to another and the aspiration to move from one social position to the next are intrinsic to social life, state structures, the market, and related practices of assigning different values and opportunities to groups and individuals view the…
Tribute to Everjoice Jeketa Win (1965-2025)
by Ennie Chipembere Dear EJ It’s been some time since you left us, and your absence is deeply felt. Finding the words to express this grief has not been easy, but I hope this first public letter honours your legacy without dwelling in sorrow. What endures is your profound impact, your influence, your memories, and…
Tribute to Professor Benedicta “Bene” Madunagu (1947-2024)
by Iheoma Obibi and Solumfeechi Odinkalu Professor Benedicta “Bene” Madunagu shaped African feminist organising for more than five decades. Her work brought together scholarship, political education, socialist analysis and practical movement building. She lived her feminism as a daily discipline, not an identity. She approached ideas as tools for change and saw organising as the…
African Feminist Praxis: Cartographies of Liberatory Worldmaking. by Jessica Horn
by Lamyaâ Achary Situating the Book African Feminist Praxis intervenes in African feminist knowledge production, not through a single, linear argument, but by means of an assemblage of feminist praxis, memory, and world-making. The book examines how African feminisms are lived, transmitted, remembered, and sustained across time and generations, particularly in contexts shaped by colonial…
Time for Divorce
by Coumba Toure I am AfricaA woman in a forced marriageDemanding divorceFed up with being raped, exploitedI am standing angryThrough the vibrancy of my youthStone in handHunger in the bellyFire at the mouthMy heart defying death on land and in the seasAnd, in my dreams, the unreasonable desire to be the best and to be…
on spiders and ghosts
by vangile gantsho there is a spider on my hand red tiny spider many tiny spiders on my hand on my arm all over my body i enter the water to wash them away without frightening them they do not leave my skin the stories of great men are found in books and painted on…
A Toast to My Women
by Wana Udobang Here is a toast to the womenWho sat us around the moonAnd gave us the secrets to the galaxyWho chanted poems to squeeze rain out of the clouds Invented coding from divinationDistorted the lines between juju and technology Cooked black magic in cauldronsand spawned brown girls who could flyCreated calligraphy with cassava…