The launch of Feminist Africa marks a critical moment in the continental history of gender politics. Three decades after the development industry first began to respond to the international resurgence of women’s movements, African gender politics have become increasingly complex and contradictory. Feminism, as a movement that is both global and local, leaves little untouched….
Category: Feminist Africa Issue 1 – Intellectual Politics
The contributors to this launch issue of Feminist Africa have been drawn from across the continent to present critical analyses of the gender politics of African academies. They take our understanding far beyond the easy option of blaming the victims of institutionalised subordination. What they have to say challenges leaders and policy-makers to support the emergence of a new, transformed and transformative academy in which African women and men can gather to learn from one another, to grow, to prepare themselves to contribute their creative energies, their ideas and their talents to the transformation of the African continent, against all the odds. A luta continua!
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…