In 2005 the African Union (AU) officially recognised a role for the African diaspora in the future of continental Africa. That same year it adopted The African Protocol on Women, a document which seeks to enhance women’s human rights across the Union. These official actions by a body representing the vision of a more unified Africa marks a new stage in a history of uneven, ambivalent but ever present interactions, conversations and collaborations between Africa and its diaspora as well as a renewed commitment to gender equity on the continent.
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Editorial
Editorial
- by Rhoda Reddocka
Features
The relevance of black feminist scholarship: a Caribbean prespective
- by Violet Eudine Barriteau
A feminist review of the idea of Africa in Caribbean family studies
- by Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley
Racial and gender inequality in Latin America: Afro-descendent women respond
- by Helen I. Safa
"Co-di-fi-cation": Black women, leadership and political power
- by Carole Boyce Davies
Standpoints
The trek for a sense of belonging
- by Annecka Leolyn Marshall
Fashioning women for a brave new world: gender, ethnicity and literary represenation
- by Paula Morgan
Tribute
A tribute to Coretta Scott King: 1927-2006
- by Simidele Dosekun
Profile
A triangular trade in gender and visuality: the making of a cross-cultural image-base
- by Patricia Mohammed
Reviews
Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis
- reviewed by Elizabeth Crespo-Kebler
Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel edited by Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw
- reviewed by Danai S. Mupotsa
Tropical Fish: Stories out of Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
- reviewed by Barbara Boswell
Taking to the streets for renewal and rejunvenation: Lavagem do Bonfim 2006
- by Gillian Marcelle