The 60th gathering of All African Peoples was recently hosted by the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana under the theme “Revisiting the 1958 All-African People’s Conference – The Unfinished Business of Liberation and Transformation”. For four days researchers, unionists, scholars, political activists and students met to discuss Pan-Africanism today, challenges of African peoples…
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During the #16DaysOfActivism, it is critical to recognize the profound ways in which gender based violence affects women and girls. Beyond that, it is also important to amplify the experiences of women and girls in their diversity and understand that women are affected differently depending on their experiences and situations. December 3 marks the International…
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain. Liberty Hyde Bailey That was what pioneer Ethiopian feminists and those who fought…
Two years after completing my undergraduates degree I finally decided to start studying for my masters. Far away from home in Mekelle, Ethiopia. If your a young woman and living away from home for the very first time, you sort of have to relearn some of your feminist values in the new context. Let’s start…
Rape culture is real. It’s not just about sex. It’s huge and it stinks. No, it’s not just a myth, it’s more than a conspiracy theory being purported by angry, sex-starved feminists. It’s real and we need to start having serious conversations about the topic, and actively call out rapists and rape apologist for who…
Feminist First By Mercy Eni I am a feminist first Excuse me sir, you heard me? Yes, you mister with the litter of disdain you throw my way At my hair kinky as it gets, my face when that acne breaks, my shirt, my pants Armored in your spick and span, suit and tie Betrayed…
This was a question I was faced with recently at a session with women rights activists and gender equality advocates regarding feminism and what it means to be running a ‘feminist organization’. Frankly this was one question I have never considered and critically examined as a feminist, whose choices, actions and pretty much everything, have…
She sat in the corner, on the small wooden chair that steadily held her weight in life, and would be kicked out from under her heavy frame welcoming her to the mysterious land of the dead. This small wooden chair that had been a participant in so many of the events leading up to this…
Fem*i*nism -the case of South Sudan, where the act of fem*i*nism has existed way before I was born but has not been called out– Fem*i*nism. Women in South Sudan have been practicing feminism though they have not called it out loud! Now the question we should be asking ourselves is why don’t we declare “I am a…
…. I speak on behalf of women the world over, who suffer from a male-imposed system of exploitation. Women who struggle and who proclaim with us that the slave who is not able to take charge of his own revolt deserves no pity for his lot. This harbours illusions in the dubious generosity of a…
A few months ago, a feminist writer and friend wrote an article explaining the crisis Africa is currently facing. A crisis that is robbing our adolescent girls of a bright future – teenage pregnancy. This, in addition to numerous reports we hear every day across the continent indicate that indeed this is a crisis. The…
