With the abundance of male superheroes giving young boys a male reference in the animation they are exposed to, an Ethiopian social enterprise has set out to address the dearth of female super heroines by creating its own animation show. Tibeb Girls is an action-drama show about three young girls who use superpowers to fight the…
Photo by Lydia Harper Growing up, there was a song we skipped to. It went along the lines of “when will you marry? January, February, March…” This song reminds me of how family, acquaintances, and strangers are eager to get a wedding date from single women. Being in my late twenties, I haven’t escaped these…
This piece is the first of an ongoing series talking to fierce African feminists that inspire us. In this piece, we talk African Feminism with Jessica Horn from Uganda. Jessica currently works as the Director of Programmes for African Women’s Development Fund and acts as the AWDF liaison with the AFF Working Group.
Grace Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s first lady is accused of assaulting Ms Engel, a 20year old South African model, with an extension cord after finding her in a hotel with her sons, Robert Jnr, 25, and Chatunga 21. Ms. Engels shared pictures of her wounded face on Twitter and said that Mrs. Mugabe’s guards looked on and…
One day, I will tell these tales to my daughter. Tales of glass ceilings, shattered by brave women. Women who wield pens and bright minds, courage and the strongest will. Women who would have ridden in on horse backs with shouts of defiance proudly drawing their swords against centuries of entrenched patriarchy if this were…
“ There was nothing like a trip to the gynaecologist, to make one feel just a little violated” ~ Darynda Jones I gave birth to my children through a caesarean section (CS). The first one wasn’t a planned CS, so I had to try labor first making it worse; then to be invaded in many…
I want to share a story of a young woman that I met years ago. I have not had the courage to tell her story yet, so please bear with me as I squeeze out the details. Know that she has haunted me in my dreams and in my waking hours since I have met…
Meseret shares with AF how some of her choices caused her to lose hope in life but her saving grace was reclaiming hope one again.
Known in her inner circle for her brutal honesty, and perhaps feared by the outer circle for this, AfricanFeminism asked Nahusenay Girma a.ka. Nahu, to share HERstory of living honesty.
Excelling in a corporate career that had the potential to elevate her even more positionally, Ciku shares with us how she broke out of the mould of social expectations towards designing and walking her own path.
Betty and I met on July 1st. I was returning from a graduation ceremony that took place in the morning and planned to meet a friend later in the afternoon so needed to get my boots polished. The rainy season is upon Addis, which means peak business for shoe shine boys. And so i assumed…
In this HERstory Kidist Nerke from SNNPR – southern part of Ethiopia shares with us how and why she made her way to Addis Ababa. I think about making difficult decisions in the future but I don’t think I’ve ever done anything of which people didn’t approve. If I had to think about it, I’d…
