The African Feminist Collective on Feminist-Informed Policies
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Nurturing a space for African Feminists to leverage their knowledge to respond to historic and contemporary injustices
Feminist foreign policy cannot claim to advance justice while remaining silent on global hierarchies that sustain inequality. And too often, FFP is framed is through Eurocentric lenses that overlook the histories of extraction, intervention, and structural disparities that shape African realities.
October 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Feminist foreign policy cannot claim to advance justice while remaining silent on global hierarchies that sustain inequality. And too often, FFP is framed is through Eurocentric lenses that overlook the histories of extraction, intervention, and structural disparities that shape African realities.
You can’t separate migration from capitalism, racism, and patriarchy. If we want liberation, we need to tear them all down. Borders aren’t broken. They work exactly as designed, to exclude, to discipline, to profit. That’s why we fight for abolition, not reform - @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
You can’t separate migration from capitalism, racism, and patriarchy. If we want liberation, we need to tear them all down. Borders aren’t broken. They work exactly as designed, to exclude, to discipline, to profit. That’s why we fight for abolition, not reform - @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
We can’t fight borders without fighting surveillance. Ethnic & racial categories are weaponized to control movement & citizenship. Tech makes it faster, not fairer - @rosebellk.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We can’t fight borders without fighting surveillance. Ethnic & racial categories are weaponized to control movement & citizenship. Tech makes it faster, not fairer - @rosebellk.bsky.social
Digital economies are the new imperial frontier. You stay trapped where you are, but your labor crosses borders to enrich the global north. This is digital colonization - @rosebellk.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Digital economies are the new imperial frontier. You stay trapped where you are, but your labor crosses borders to enrich the global north. This is digital colonization - @rosebellk.bsky.social
Trump’s Congo deal wasn’t about Congolese people. It was about US control over minerals. Imperial borders move for capital, never for people. They serve the imperial machine, displacing millions while leaders stay complicit - @rosebellk.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Trump’s Congo deal wasn’t about Congolese people. It was about US control over minerals. Imperial borders move for capital, never for people. They serve the imperial machine, displacing millions while leaders stay complicit - @rosebellk.bsky.social
When a convoy tried to deliver aid to Gaza through North Africa, Egypt’s border stopped them. Even in moments of genocide, imperialism dictates who can cross a border, who gets aid, and whose lives matter - @rosebellk.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
When a convoy tried to deliver aid to Gaza through North Africa, Egypt’s border stopped them. Even in moments of genocide, imperialism dictates who can cross a border, who gets aid, and whose lives matter - @rosebellk.bsky.social
The Sahel isn’t just a site of coups, it’s a laboratory for imperial security regimes. EU, US & others arm militias, control movement & experiment with migration containment. Djibouti alone hosts US, China, France, Japan, Italy bases. These bases control our movement - @rosebellk.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The Sahel isn’t just a site of coups, it’s a laboratory for imperial security regimes. EU, US & others arm militias, control movement & experiment with migration containment. Djibouti alone hosts US, China, France, Japan, Italy bases. These bases control our movement - @rosebellk.bsky.social
Queer refugees face double violence, as migrants & for their queerness. Kenya may ‘accept’ queer refugees, but offers no protection. Survival comes with a constant threat. Statelessness is about who’s made visible and who is forced into invisibility - Kedolwa Waziri
July 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Queer refugees face double violence, as migrants & for their queerness. Kenya may ‘accept’ queer refugees, but offers no protection. Survival comes with a constant threat. Statelessness is about who’s made visible and who is forced into invisibility - Kedolwa Waziri
Statelessness isn’t a paperwork glitch. It’s daily erasure. It’s being denied ID, banking, healthcare, digital services.
In Kenya, Nubians & other marginalised people can only access ID services on select days. Statelessness is structured exclusion - Kedolwa Waziri
In Kenya, Nubians & other marginalised people can only access ID services on select days. Statelessness is structured exclusion - Kedolwa Waziri
July 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Statelessness isn’t a paperwork glitch. It’s daily erasure. It’s being denied ID, banking, healthcare, digital services.
In Kenya, Nubians & other marginalised people can only access ID services on select days. Statelessness is structured exclusion - Kedolwa Waziri
In Kenya, Nubians & other marginalised people can only access ID services on select days. Statelessness is structured exclusion - Kedolwa Waziri
Black existence is resistance. Haiti’s survival, a nation born from Black rebellion, threatens white supremacist order. That’s why it’s destabilised. That’s why migration is policed.
- Guerline Jozef
- Guerline Jozef
July 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Black existence is resistance. Haiti’s survival, a nation born from Black rebellion, threatens white supremacist order. That’s why it’s destabilised. That’s why migration is policed.
- Guerline Jozef
- Guerline Jozef
Borders = money + race + power. Citizenship won’t save you if you’re Black. Ask Khaby Lame, an Italian citizen deported from the US because of his Blackness. The passport mattered less than his skin - Guerline Jozef
July 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Borders = money + race + power. Citizenship won’t save you if you’re Black. Ask Khaby Lame, an Italian citizen deported from the US because of his Blackness. The passport mattered less than his skin - Guerline Jozef
In 2025, white South Africans claiming refugee status in the US shows how migration systems uphold anti-Blackness. Borders were made to exclude Black, Brown & poor people, while others move freely - Guerline Jozef
July 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
In 2025, white South Africans claiming refugee status in the US shows how migration systems uphold anti-Blackness. Borders were made to exclude Black, Brown & poor people, while others move freely - Guerline Jozef
We must pay attention not only to migration policies and practices, but to the discourses and knowledge systems that justify them. How we talk about migration shapes whose humanity is recognised - @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
We must pay attention not only to migration policies and practices, but to the discourses and knowledge systems that justify them. How we talk about migration shapes whose humanity is recognised - @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
Even citizenship isn’t protection. Black and Brown people from the Global South, even with legal status in the Global North, are policed, profiled, and treated as perpetual outsiders - @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Even citizenship isn’t protection. Black and Brown people from the Global South, even with legal status in the Global North, are policed, profiled, and treated as perpetual outsiders - @tonihaastrup.bsky.social
Reposted by The African Feminist Collective on Feminist-Informed Policies
“Developing the broadband infrastructure is equivalent to the construction of imperial railways in the nineteenth century in order to facilitate the colonization of Africa.”- Prof Sylvia Tamale, decolonization and Afro-feminism
May 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
“Developing the broadband infrastructure is equivalent to the construction of imperial railways in the nineteenth century in order to facilitate the colonization of Africa.”- Prof Sylvia Tamale, decolonization and Afro-feminism
Reposted by The African Feminist Collective on Feminist-Informed Policies
Thank you. That’s a quote from Prof. Sylvia Tamale- Digitization has become the new “civilizing” mission and the latest framework for rationalizing the new mode of colonization…”
May 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Thank you. That’s a quote from Prof. Sylvia Tamale- Digitization has become the new “civilizing” mission and the latest framework for rationalizing the new mode of colonization…”
🧏🏾♀️ African states and tech corporations collude in surveillance and suppression and yet communities lack control over platforms, content, and data governance, increasing vulnerability to exploitation and erasure.
May 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🧏🏾♀️ African states and tech corporations collude in surveillance and suppression and yet communities lack control over platforms, content, and data governance, increasing vulnerability to exploitation and erasure.
🧏🏾♀️ Disinformation campaigns (e.g., glorification of authoritarian leaders, manipulated perceptions of conflict zones) distort collective consciousness and undermine organizing
May 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🧏🏾♀️ Disinformation campaigns (e.g., glorification of authoritarian leaders, manipulated perceptions of conflict zones) distort collective consciousness and undermine organizing
🧏🏾♀️ African users are at the mercy of unregulated algorithms that fuel rage, division, and hate, particularly targeting LGBTQ+ communities, women, and migrants.
May 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🧏🏾♀️ African users are at the mercy of unregulated algorithms that fuel rage, division, and hate, particularly targeting LGBTQ+ communities, women, and migrants.
🧏🏾♀️ Digital platforms are extractive and neocolonial, mirroring the railways of the 19th century that enabled resource pillaging.
May 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🧏🏾♀️ Digital platforms are extractive and neocolonial, mirroring the railways of the 19th century that enabled resource pillaging.