Deadline for Abstracts: 30th September, 2024 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: contact@feministafrica.net (and copy) info@feministafrica.net Issue Editors: Dorothy Takyiakwaa and Faisal Garba Muhammed Introduction Introduction How do gender and class intersect with the experience of mobility in a political and economic climate where the physical mobility of ordinary Africans is viewed as a problem to be confronted and…
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Call for Papers: Reclaiming Women’s Play: Gender, Wellbeing and the Changing African Play Cultures
Deadline for Abstracts: 30th June, 2024 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: contact@feministafrica.net (and copy) info@feministafrica.net Issue Editors: Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, Deborah Atobrah and Penelope Sanyu Introduction In her book “Play Like a Feminist”, Shira Chess (2020)urges women to spend more time playing, as a tool of radical disruption against not only sexism but against all other intersectional…
CLOSED: Call for abstracts for a panel submission to the African Humanities Association
We are no longer accepting submissions. Deadline for Submissions Abstract: 26th April 2023 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: Dr. Dorothy Takyiakwaa (dtakyiakwaa@ucc.edu.gh) We invite abstract submissions (300 words) for a panel submission for oral (in person or online)presentation at the African Humanities Association Inaugural Conference taking place from 27thNovember to 29th November…
CLOSED: Call for Paper Submissions: Pan-African Feminist Popular Education in Global Africa: Resisting and Building Locally and Globally through Liberatory Transformative Education.
We are no longer accepting submissions. Deadline for Submissions Abstract: 6th March 2023 Extended abstract: 2nd May 2023 Full paper: 30th June 2023 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: contact@feministafrica.net Issue Editors: Mjiba Frehiwot and Asanda Benya This special issue proposes to look at and highlight pan-African feminist popular education in global Africa….
CLOSED: Call for Paper Submissions: African Women Workers in a Changing World
We are no longer accepting submissions. Deadline for Submissions: 31st December, 2021 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: info@feministafrica.net Guest Editor: Akosua Keseboa Darkwah African women have long been noted as active participants in the economic spheres of their respective countries. Across the continent, written records from the nineteenth century, make it clear…
Call for Paper Submissions: African Women’s Lives in the time of a Pandemic
The year 2020 will go down in history as the year when the whole world was dramatically altered in quite substantial ways. Unlike our previous experiences with pandemics such as the Spanish flu of a century
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…
Call for Submissions: Feminist Africa 2021: Gender and Sexuality in African Futurism -Volume 2, Issue 2
Deadline for Submissions: 1st September 2020All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: info@feministafrica.net Guest Editor: Jacqueline-Bethel MougouéHow does the African Futurist genre (re)imagine gender norms, sexual identities, and issues of feminism on the continent? This special issue will explore questions of gender and sexuality in“African Futurism,” a term that has gained currency since Nigerian-American…