Welcome to Feminist Africa 9, the second of two issues dedicated to Rethinking Universities, in which we continue the work first begun in FA1 to present and develop feminist perspectives on Africa’s institutions of higher learning. The feature articles cover a range of countries, and we are especially pleased to bring work from Francophone Africa to this issue.
As we write this editorial from Cape Town in November 2007, feminist activists and scholars around South Africa are shaking their heads over the news that the ANC Women’s League has chosen as their “preferred candidate” for the ANC presidency a man who embodies at best the conservative traditions of southern African patriarchy, and at worst its most cynically misogynist aspects.
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Editorial
Editorial
- Teresa Barnes and Amina Mama
Features
Sewing machines and computers? Seeing gender in institutional and intellectual cultures at the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar, Senegal
- by Aminata Diaw
Lost in liberalism: A case study of the disappearance of the gender agenda at a South African university
- by Lesley Shackleton
"Feeling the disconnect": Teaching sexualities and gender in South African higher education
- by Jane Bennett and Vasu Reddy
Challenging gender inequality in higher education: attitudes and perceptions of teaching staff and administrators at the Univesity of Buea, Cameroon
- by Joyce B. Mbongo Endeley and Margaret Nchang Ngaling
Profiles
Trajectory of the Institute of Gender Studies at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
- by Emebet Mulugeta
"Reclaiming the P...Word": a refelection on an original feminist drama production at the University of the Western Cape
- by Mary Hames
Poem
Salt River
- by Teresa Barnes
In Conversation
As a woman [in politics], you have to work twice as hard as the average man:
Zukiswa Mqolomba speaks with Awino Okech
Reviews
Change and Transformation in Ghana's Publicy-funded Universities: A Study of Experiences, Lessons and Opportunities. Takyiwaa Manuh, Sulley Garba and Joseph Budu. Oxford:
and Gender in the Making of Nigerian University System. Charmaine Pereira. Oxford: James Currey; Ibadan: Heinemann Educational Books, 2007
- reviewed by Amina Mama
"The African University in the 21st Century", South African Journal of Higher Education 19, Special theme issue, 2005
- reviewed by Zethu Cakata
Academic Mothers. Venitha Pillay. Pretoria: Unisa Press, Stoke-on-Trent: Trentham Books, 2007
- reviewed by Uma Dhupelia Mesthrie
Women in South African History: Basus'iimbodoko,bawel'imilambo/ They remove boulders and cross rivers.
Nomboniso Gasa, ed.Cape Town: Human Sceinces Reserach Council Press, 2007
- reviewed by Teresa Barnes