by Carmeliza Rosário Editorial This Feminist Africa issue challenges dominant gender epistemologies through grounded African perspectives. The outcome of a panel convened at the 2022 World Women’s Conference in Maputo, the issue interrogates the coloniality embedded in global gender discourse and offers decolonial, relational alternatives rooted in local linguistic contexts, kinship structures, and socio- historical…
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Feminist Africa 2025, Volume 6, Issue 1 “Violence, Gender, Power ”
The theorisation of exploitative and dangerous systems such as patriarchy or colonialism has long been energised by the complex and evolving connections among gender, violence, and power. Research and activism that acknowledge such connections point to ways in which these systems often create normalised conditions of vulnerability, especially for people gendered within the “feminine.” Such…
Feminist Africa 2024, Volume 5, Issue 2 (2024) “Rethinking African Feminisms in the ‘New’ Normal”
Introduction: Shedding the old Since the turn of the century, the world has changed radically, making it unrecog- nisable to activists who came of age in the 20th century.Yuval Harari’s provocative book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, lays out current global historical, political, technological, religious, and ecological crises plus numerous other issues of interest….
Feminist Africa Volume 5, Issue 1 (2024) Africa’s 21st Century Feminist Struggles: Terrains, Formations and Politics
This issue of FA reflects on Africa’s 21st century feminist struggles and movements, paying particular attention to the continuities and changes in terrains, organisational formations, politics, and strategies. The issue is inspired by the visibility of young feminist leadership in recent and ongoing struggles for decolonisation, democratisation, economic justice, and emancipation such as the uprisings…
Feminist Africa Volume 4, Issue 2 (2023) Public-Private Partnerships and Development in Africa: Feminist Contestations
Feminism has long been incorporating economic issues into its agenda. This is evident from the pioneering work of those who analysed the gender dimension in development debates1, to the pioneering voices from the Global South that pointed out the risks of the marketisation of governance (Taylor 2000), to the current discussions on the challenges that…
Feminist Africa Volume 3, Issue 2 (2022): Revisiting Gender in Rural Livelihoods and Development Interventions
This issue of Feminist Africa revisits rural women and agricultural livelihoods, focusing on the persistence of contexts that compromise their ability to benefit from development interventions. An accumulation of studies over the years have set out to unravel the hindering factors. Some such studies, premised on the economic efficiency argument, push for greater attention to…
Feminist Africa Volume 4, Issue 1 (2023) African Women Workers in a Changing World
This issue on African women workers in a changing world discusses several themes that have long been the concern of feminist scholars with an interest in women’s work: transnational capitalism and its implications for women’s productive activities, the debilitating impact of land tenure arrangements in Africa on women’s productive and reproductive responsibilities, as well as…
Feminist Africa Volume 3, Issue 2 (2022) Revisiting Gender in Rural Livelihoods and Development Interventions
This issue of Feminist Africa revisits rural women and agricultural livelihoods, focusing on the persistence of contexts that compromise their ability to benefit from development interventions. An accumulation of studies over the years have set out to unravel the hindering factors. Some such studies, premised on the economic efficiency argument, push for greater attention to…
Gendered Tensions in Rural Livelihoods and Development Interventions
By Akua Opokua Britwum This issue of Feminist Africa revisits rural women and agricultural livelihoods, focusing on the persistence of contexts that compromise their ability to benefit from development interventions. An accumulation of studies over the years have set out to unravel the hindering factors. Some such studies, premised on the economic efficiency argument, push…
Feminist Africa, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2022): African Women’s Lives in the Time of a Pandemic
This issue of Feminist Africa reflects on both the impact of COVID-19 on African women and African women’s responses to the pandemic. As a continent, Africa has endured decades of economic, political and social crises. Since the colonial period, the continent has been a primary commodity producer, supplying the world with both mineral resources such…