by Penelope Sanyu Introduction Ugandans desire to live in a country where all the citizens can enjoy a produc- tive life with gainful employment, access to education and the right to quality healthcare. This desire is reflected in the national vision, Uganda Vision 2040, and the national vision statement approved by Cabinet in 2007: “A…
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Public-Private Partnerships in the Health Sector Cannot Guarantee Equity in Access to Health: The Initiative for Social and Economic Rights Takes on the Ugandan Government.
Corina Rodriguez Enriquez and Sue Godt speak with Allana Kembabazi of ISER on PPPs and Feminist Struggles. Corina Rodriguez Enriquez and Sue Godt spoke with Allana Kembabazi about the work of the Ugandan NGO Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) to address the growing role of public-private partnerships (PPP) in the country. In a…
The Nawi Afrifem Collective: Bringing a Pan-African Feminist Voice to Macro-Level Economic Narratives in Africa
by Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey Introduction – Nawi Challenging Neoliberal Development in Africa The African continent is a hotbed of macroeconomic policy experiments and changes.These shifts are not occurring by default but are linked to the continent’s experiences with colonialism, coloniality, and imperialism. The legacies have shaped its interaction with the West and other countries in…
African Women in Digital Spaces Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora by Msia Kibona Clark and Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed. Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd, 2023
by Amanda Odoi Social media activism has become a pivotal global tool in recent decades for pushing and extending the feminist agenda, particularly among young feminists. With the widespread availability of smartphones and easy access to social media platforms, users now have access to a plethora of information on subjects ranging from news and gossip…
Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa, edited by Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021.
by Mardiya Siba Yahaya Writing the Self, Re-telling and Positioning Surfacing is an anthology that unravels, expands and rebuilds feminist practices as we know them.The book highlights the realities and thoughts of South African feminists and actively makes use of “writing the self” (Baderoon 2015) as a literary tool, but is not limited to it….
Public-Private Partnership: A Landmark of Mainstream Development Discourse and Why Feminists Should Worry
by Corina Rodriguez Enriquez The mainstream development discourse has located the idea of blended finance as a central element.The key argument is that States do not have sufficient resources to meet the investments needed to promote and sustain development. For this reason, it is necessary to combine different sources of financing, including the private sector…
Land Grabbing: A Big Toll on Women Farmers – a Case Study of Segou Region in Mali
by Asmao Diallo In the wake of multiple crises, including economic instability, food shortage, energy crisis, and climate change, African farmers’ land relationships have under- gone remarkable changes in recent years. These changes in land relationships were initially brought about by the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) of the 1980s imposed by theWorld Bank and the…
Fishmeal Production and the Dispossession of Women in The Gambia
by Fatou H. Jobe This paper examines how large-scale fishmeal processing impacts women’s work in The Gambia. Fishmeal factories use bonga (Ethmalosa fimbriata), a staple fish inThe Gambia, to produce fishmeal for the global aquaculture industry.The Gambian government yearns for FDI in fishmeal factories to industrialise the fisheries sector, increase fisheries contribution to GDP and…
Women Farm Workers in Zimbabwe: The Social Policy Outcomes Two Decades after the Transformative Fast Track Land Reform
by Tom Tom and Resina Banda Women farm workers have so far received limited scholarly attention in Zimbabwe’s agrarian and labour policy literature. This is in a context where a conscious understanding of land reform as a social policy instrument is paltry. Taking women farm workers as the prime focus and using an empirical case…
“That Woman is a Farmer”: Gender and the Changing Character of Commercial Agriculture in Zimbabwe
by Newman Tekwa Female participation in commercial agriculture as part of women’s work in Zimbabwe remains inadequately documented and theorised. In a context of land reform and framed within the Transformative Social Policy framework, this paper seeks to highlight commercial agriculture as a new work role for women that challenges the existing gender system characterising…