by Bashiratu Kamal Ghana, my country of birth, has a population of about 30 million out of which 51% are women. The majority of these women in the workforce (85%) can be found in the informal economy. This situation is not unique to Ghana. According to an International Labour Organization (ILO) survey conducted in 2015,…
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Wangari Maathai, by Tabitha Kanogo. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020
-by Patricia Kameri-Mbote Reviewing this book is an honour for me.The subject –Wangari Maathai – is a woman I knew personally and admired greatly. She and I shared a cup of tea and buns at an international symposium that she had officially opened as an Assistant Minister for environment law on the morning of the…
African Women Workers in a Changing World
By Akosua K. Darkwah This special 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…
Navigating Checkpoints: The Journey of the Liberia Feminist Forum
By Korto Williams In August 1990, I stood at a checkpoint somewhere in Liberia, not ready to die. I was 20. Checkpoints were sad, brutal, dehumanising. This was not the first checkpoint we had navigated, my siblings and I, carrying our paralysed mother in a wheelbarrow. We had walked from one of the neighbourhoods close…
Finding Spirit in the Work — Ukuthwasa
By Namanzi Choongo Mweene Chinyama To think collectively with other feminists about the power of healing and what it might mean for our movement-building and organising is both a privilege and a necessity. As we continue to ask ourselves, “How are women organising across the continent in subversive and radical ways? How are we learning…
(Writing) On the Wide Margin
By Varyanne Sika Feminist thought and imagination are permeating the work of some scholars but this influence, among the present generation of scholars, remains relatively rare. (Pereira, 2002: 27) The Wide Margin (TWM) is a digital journal of feminist thinking on matters thought to be important by its writers, who are of African descent. The…
Flipping Prisms: Feminist Creative Synergy Amps Up in Accra
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…