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Africa, Featured
June 9, 2026
In the Name of the African Family: Sovereignty, Power and Who Gets to Define Africa

There is something deeply important happening across Africa today. The return of the language of Sovereignty. After decades of externally prescribed development models, unequal trade arrangements, military dependencies, and cultural domination, Africans…

AfricanFeminism June 9, 2026
Featured, Somalia
June 7, 2026
Open Letter to the Somalia National Pavilion Organizers and the Three Exhibiting Artists

Find Portuguese version below/ Veja a versão em português abaixo     “Gudineey imaadan goyseen haddii uusan gabalkey kugu jirin.” – Maahmaah (Somali Proverb) The axe could not fell the tree if…

AfricanFeminism June 7, 2026
Advocacy, Africa, Featured
May 30, 2026
Africa Runs on the Invisible Subsidy of Women’s Time

African women’s exhaustion under the weight of care responsibilities has long been labelled as resilience. Across many communities, the ability to “hold things together” is treated less as evidence of systemic strain…

AfricanFeminism May 30, 2026
Advocacy, Featured
May 25, 2026
The Architects of Survival: Defending the Dream of a Liberated Continent

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights – a binding treaty between the member states of the African Union which guarantees individual and collective rights – was born from a radical…

AfricanFeminism May 25, 2026
Featured, Uganda
May 17, 2026
Two Years After Uganda’s Anti- Homosexuality Law, Women Jailed and Living in Fear

When Uganda passed the  Anti Homosexuality Act of 2023, activists warned that the law would be used to marginalise a disadvantaged community further. In the months that followed, Ugandan officials claimed first…

AfricanFeminism May 17, 2026
Agency, Featured, Feminist funding
April 20, 2026
Feminist Sororité in Precarious Times for Movement-led Organising

How we enter, relate, build trust, and move resources within contemporary philanthropic structures is not abstract; it is deeply material. This is about power, proximity, and integrity, especially for African feminists who…

AfricanFeminism April 20, 2026
Featured, Queer Africa, Senegal, Solidarity
April 15, 2026
Déclaration de solidarité face à l’intensification des attaques contre les personnes LGBTIQ au Sénégal

English below/ en anglais ci-dessous Déclaration de solidarité face à l’intensification des attaques contre les personnes LGBTIQ au Sénégal à travers une législation punitive, des violences cautionnées par l’État et des détentions arbitraires Nous…

AfricanFeminism April 15, 2026
Africa, Featured, Olympics, Sports
March 27, 2026
Bodies in Doubt: Olympics New Sex Testing Policy Revives Troubling Biopolicing and Racial Logics

On March 26, 2026, after an executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released a 10-page policy: “Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport.” This policy…

Rosebell Kagumire March 27, 2026
Africa, Featured, Reparations, Transatlantic slave trade
March 24, 2026
Ghana Must Recognise That True Pan-African Justice Rejects Anti-Gender Fundamentalism

Ghana holds a key symbolic and political role in Pan-African unity and liberation. From the historic African unity conferences of the 1950s and 1960s to its continued symbolic weight in global Black…

AfricanFeminism March 24, 2026
Featured, Queer Africa, Senegal
March 23, 2026
Autopsy of a Deadly System: How Senegal Made Targets of Its Queer Citizens

Two days after the passing of the new, stringent anti-queer law in Senegal, 17-year-old Malick Ndiaye was killed. Ndiaye, a drummer, was approached by a group of teenagers between 13 and 15…

AfricanFeminism March 23, 2026
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