Welcome to Feminist Africa’s thematic focus on sexualities. This issue provides us with the opportunity to continue some of the debates initiated by Patricia MacFadden, Charmaine Pereira and Sylvia Tamale in an earlier issue (see Feminist Africa 2). In keeping with Feminist Africa’s intellectual development agenda, the present issue also provides a platform for new…
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Feminist Africa Issue 4. 2005: Women Mobilised
This issue of Feminist Africa 4: Women Mobilised presents new theorisations of postcolonial gender politics. The contributors document and critically reflect on contemporary gender struggles in a number of key arenas. Needless to say, for every example that is discussed in the following pages, many more have been omitted, about which a few points are…
Feminist Africa Issue 2. 2003: Changing Cultures
The challenge that this presents is for innovativeness in contesting discourses, practices and identities that police our rights, freedoms and desires. Contributions to this issue explore these courageous interventions by showing how creative writers have struggled with language, as the key repository and instrument of our cultures, to re-envisage how we see ourselves and our…
Feminist Africa Issue 1. 2002: Intellectual Politics
Feminist Africa begins with a focus on “Intellectual Politics”, so that we can begin by bringing critical feminist perspectives to bear on the institutional terrain that is formally responsible for African knowledge production, namely our institutions of higher learning. Higher education and research organisations in Africa have proved so resistant to feminist intellectual work that…