By Sionne Rameah Neely Progressively over the last decade, feminist creative organising in Accra has taken shape through collectives and projects working to amplify visibility and provide affirming space for women and women’s stories in public spheres. This rise in visibility and inclusive spaces has taken place through a myriad of cultural events, occurring throughout…
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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…