The advent and development of the internet has expanded the frontiers of feminist activism. Feminist Africa is itself a prime example of the audacious digital engagements displayed by women’s movements all over the world. Established over 10 years ago with the support of Africa’s resurgent feminist community, Feminist Africa is the continent’s first open-access online scholarly journal, and still the only one dedicated to publishing and promoting independent feminist scholarship as an activist project. Originally envisaged as an online intellectual forum for feminist research and activism, FA also produced a limited print edition to address the limited digital access that the African Gender Institute’s survey of the feminist intellectual community revealed (Radloff 2002).
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Editorial
Feminist engagements with 21st-century
communications technology
– by Jennifer Radloff
Features
Disrupting patriarchy: An examination of the role of
e-technologies in rural Kenya
– by Brenda Nyandiko Sanya
Digital as an enabler: A case study of the Joburg Pride 2012 clash
– by Nyx McLean
Exploring new media technologies among young
South African women
– by Desiree Lewis, Tigist Shewarega Hussen and
Monique van Vuuren
Sinking into oblivion? Ethnographic insights into the place of
radio in the lives of women living in a rural community in Zimbabwe
– by Selina Mudavanhu
Profiles
The Asikana Network
– by Chisenga Muyoya
Digital visual activism: A profile of Inkanyiso
– by Kylie Thomas
In Conversation
Selina Mudavanhu with Maggie Mapondera
Jennifer Radloff with Jan Moolman
Hakima Abbas with Blessol Gathoni
Jane Bennett with Sally-Jean Shackleton
Standpoints
African feminist uprisings: Getting our knickers in knots
– by Sarita Ranchod
Erotics : Sexuality, freedom of expression and online censorship
– by Caroline Tagny and jac SM Kee
Supporting Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Intersex
human rights defenders in the digital age
– by Daniel O Clunaigh
Mobiles for development in Africa: Are we in danger of losing
sight of the bigger picture?
– by Kutoma J Wakunuma
Panty-slapped: Cyberactivism and African feminism join forces
– by Bella Hwang
Digital security as feminist practice
– by Jennifer Radloff
Is the success of M-Pesa empowering Kenyan rural women?
– by Oumy Khairy Ndiaye