Feminist Africa

Category: Tributes

Tribute to Everjoice Jeketa Win (1965-2025)

by Ennie Chipembere Dear EJ It’s been some time since you left us, and your absence is deeply felt. Finding the words to express this grief has not been easy, but I hope this first public letter honours your legacy without dwelling in sorrow. What endures is your profound impact, your influence, your memories, and…

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Tribute to Professor Benedicta “Bene” Madunagu (1947-2024)

by Iheoma Obibi and Solumfeechi Odinkalu Professor Benedicta “Bene” Madunagu shaped African feminist organising for more than five decades. Her work brought together scholarship, political education, socialist analysis and practical movement building. She lived her feminism as a daily discipline, not an identity. She approached ideas as tools for change and saw organising as the…

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Remembering Everjoice Jeketa Win (EJ)

This issue focuses on pan-African feminist popular education in Global Africa as a liberatory force for women. Our intention is to contribute to the documentation of both historical and contemporary practices of pan-African feminist popular education.

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For Sethunya and the Legacy She Left Us:

For Feminist Africa, a pan-African Journal and knowledge community for research, dialogue, and strategy, Sethunya was more than a colleague. She was part of the first cohort of Associate Editors who played a crucial role in strengthening the journal’s capacity and solidarity. Her vision and commitment were instrumental in shaping the current phase of Feminist Africa. At the time of her passing, she was co-editing an important forthcoming Issue on “Decolonising Play”—a project that reimagined play not as a mere pastime, but as a powerful form of resistance, a learning tool, and a method of healing.

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Join Our Team: Programme Officer

Feminist Africa, a gender studies journal hosted at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, is seeking to hire a Programme Officer for its office starting 1st July 2025.

Type of contract: Part-time

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Words to follow and honour: Dr. Sethunya Tshepho Mosime

When Sethunya walked into a room, the light changed. Not simply because of the way in which the people already there tended to greet her uproariously, with joy and welcome, but because of the energies she embodied: beautiful, fight-back, engaged and extraordinary energies, energies which encompassed everybody, energies that were not
afraid.

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Tribute to Dr Sethunya Tshepho Mosime 

Dr. Sethunya Tshepho Mosime—a beloved scholar, teacher, advisor, feminist, friend, and comrade—passed away on December 10th, 2024. A senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Botswana, her sudden passing has left our community in grief. We extend our deepest condolences to her family.

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Tribute to Professor Ama Ata Aidoo

From Takyiwaa Manuh Dear Ama, It has not been easy trying to compose a goodbye message to you. Kinna had called, I had visited you in hospital and knew that you were gravely ill. And then she called again early that morning, and my heart sank as I answered the phone. Where do I begin?…

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