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Feminist Africa is a continental gender studies journal that provides a forum for progressive and cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue.
Remembering Dr. Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, beloved scholar and senior lecturer at the University of Botswana. Founding Associate Editor of Feminist Africa & co-editor of the upcoming “Decolonising Play” Issue. Read the tribute: feministafrica.net/2025/03/11/f...
August 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In this book review, Asanda-Jonas Benya explores a book that documents four decades of critical engagement at SWOP in South Africa. The chapters reflect on how partnerships between scholars and movements shaped research, theory, and public action.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:22 AM
#WriterSpotlight Meet Ana Baloi—writer, trainer, and champion for young women. At MUVA, she leads sessions on gender and entrepreneurship and helped write a powerful e-book on Paulo Freire’s legacy in 2022. Read more: feministafrica.net/wp-content/u...
July 16, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Ololade Faniyi reviews Naked Agency by Naminata Diabate, which explores how African women use disrobing as political resistance. Diabate reframes this as naked agency, rejecting reductive terms and centering women’s own meanings.
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Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa by Naminata Diabete. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020. - Feminist Africa
Feminism has long been incorporating economic issues into its agenda.This is evident from the pioneering work of those who analysed the gender dimension in development debates, to the pioneering voice...
https://feministafrica.net/2025/03/12/naked-agency-genital-cursing-and-biopolitics-in-africa-by-naminata-157-diabete-durham-and-london-duke-university-press-2020/"
July 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Meet Towards a Feminist Consciousness: a pan-African queer feminist collective dismantling colonial and patriarchal systems to create alternative feminist knowledge.

Learn about their mission:
feministafrica.net/2025/03/13/p...
June 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
To change the world, we must change ourselves. A new conversation on a feminist popular education retreat for the team at Purposeful, exploring why internal political grounding is vital for social justice work. Led by Dr. R Bangura & Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli. feministafrica.net/2025/03/13/r...
June 23, 2025 at 8:27 AM
A powerful look at feminist praxis on the ground. In Asanda-Jonas Benya's interview with Eileen Manka Tabuwe Akwo, we get a glimpse into how the women of SNWOT are using critical dialogue and direct advocacy to mediate the devastating conflict in Cameroon: feministafrica.net/2025/03/13/w...
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June 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
In Mozambique, Pan-African feminism thrives via MUVA. They use Freirean popular education (feminist lens!) to train facilitators, empowering women economically & amplifying their voices against patriarchy. Real transformative learning.
Read more: feministafrica.net/2025/03/13/c...
Cultivating Seeds of Transformation: Reflections on Feminist Popular Education from Mozambique - Feminist Africa
Feminism has long been incorporating economic issues into its agenda.This is evident from the pioneering work of those who analysed the gender dimension in development debates, to the pioneering voice...
https://feministafrica.net/2025/03/13/cultivating-seeds-of-transformation-reflections-on-feminist-popular-education-from-mozambique/"
May 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Mubarak Tukur explores how Gambo Sawaba & the NEPU Women's Wing championed women's education in Northern. Nigeria, resisting exclusion & building on Nana Asma'u's legacy. Read full article here: feministafrica.net/2025/03/13/f...
April 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
African women have a powerful history in grassroots education against oppression, often unacknowledged. This piece advocates for a pan-African feminist approach to truly inclusive education.
Read the full paper: feministafrica.net/2025/03/13/p...
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April 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
#ProfileHighlight: Dr. Korka Sall is the Academic Director of the Minnesota Studies in International Development, MSID-Senegal. She thrives in creating spaces of dialogue for African women to fight gender inequality. Read more about her: feministafrica.net/2025/01/23/k...
April 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Starting off our first post with a big announcement!
🚨New Issue Alert: FA Vol 5, Issue 3, "Pan-African Feminist Popular Education," is out now. Huge thanks to editors Mjiba Frehiwot and Asanda Jonas-Benya fellow at
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Read it here: feministafrica.net/latest-issue/
March 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM