Fifteen years since the launch of the first issue on Intellectual Politics in 2002, this special editorial marks the end of the first stage in Feminist Africa’s life. The shared founding principle behind FA is the understanding that building strong and independent feminist movements is necessary for the liberation of our continent. Movement-building demands the mobilisation of multiple energies that work to demystify, resist and overcome the sex- and gender-based oppressions at work in our lives and communities, and in the institutions we inhabit.
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Editorial
Special Editorial: The Power of Feminist Pan-African Intellect
– by Amina Mama
Editorial: Feminists Organising — Strategy, Voice, Power
– by Charmaine Pereira
Features
Reflections on Feminist Organising in Angola
– by Âurea Mouzinho and Sizaltina Cutaia
Inaugural Lecture
Nudity, Protest and the Law in Uganda
– by Sylvia Tamale
Standpoint
Feminist Reflections on the Rhodes Must Fall Movement
– by Kealeboga Ramaru
Tributes
Raising the Veil — A Tribute to Bi Kidude (circa 1910-2013)
– by Vicensia Shule
Elaine Rosa Salo (1962-2016) – An Appreciation
– by Terri Barnes
Tribute to Aminata Diaw Cissé: 1959-2017
– by Fatou Sow
Critical Reflections
Finding Spirit in the Work — Ukuthwasa
– by Namanzi Choongo Mweene Chinyama
Navigating Checkpoints: The Journey of the Liberia Feminist Forum
– by Korto Williams
Disrupting Orthodoxies in Economic Development — An African Feminist Perspective
– by Fatimah Kelleher
(Writing) On the Wide Margin
– by Varyanne Sika
Flipping Prisms: Feminist Creative Synergy Amps Up in Accra
– by Sionne Rameah Neely
Profiles
Female in Nigeria: Profile
– by Ayodele Olofintuade
Women Organising in Ghana: The Network for Women’s Rights (NETRIGHT) and NGO Networking for Policy Intervention
– by Akua Britwum
“I’m not a feisty bitch, I’m a feminist!” Feminism in AWAKE! Women of Africa
– by Ntokozo Yingwana
Poem
the revolution is a woman
– by Toni Stuart
Reviews
Rape: A South African Nightmare, by Pumla Dineo Gqola. Johannesburg: MF Books, an imprint of Jacana Media (PTY) Ltd, 2015
– by Jane Bennett
Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism, by Karima Bennoune. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2015
– by Charmaine Pereira
Beauty of the Heart: The Life and Times of Charlotte Mannya Maxeke, by Zubeida Jaffer. Cape Town: ZJ Books, 2016
– by Gabeba Baderoon
Collective Amnesia, by Koleka Putuma. Cape Town: Uhlanga, 2017
– by Uhuru Phalafala