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Advocacy, Featured, Rights in Retreat, Rwanda
4 days ago
Laws and Resurgent Cultural Claims: Rwanda’s Decency Policing Erodes Women’s Freedoms

There’s been an online uproar after Rwandan National Police spokesperson ACP Rutikanga Boniface announced on public television that public indecency will be punished. On August 29, police officers threatened to beat young…

AfricanFeminism September 10, 2026
Advocacy, Featured, Namibia
2 weeks ago
The “Rape Tournament”: Online Humour and Normalisation of Rape Culture in Namibia

Between April 2024 and February 2025, Namibia recorded 4,405 cases of gender-based violence (GBV), of which 1,345 were cases of rape. These figures may not reflect the actual prevalence, as many incidents,…

AfricanFeminism August 31, 2026
Featured
3 weeks ago
Recentering African Feminist Epistemologies: A Community of Practice to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence

Over the past year, Liberation Alliance Africa has sustained the Building Knowledge Bridges Community of Practice on Recentering African Feminist Epistemologies to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence. This Community of Practice…

AfricanFeminism August 21, 2026
Featured, Senegal, Sports
2 months ago
Senegal’s World Cup Exit: The Price of National Honor and Women’s Safety

The reigning African champions were eliminated from the 2026 FIFA World Cup on 1 July, beaten 3-2 by Belgium in extra time in the Round of 32. The Lions of Teranga had…

AfricanFeminism July 22, 2026
Africa, Featured, The Gambia
June 30, 2026
Danger of Symbolic Leadership as The Gambia Ratifies AU Convention on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls

The problem with being first is that it can make movement look like progress. The Gambia has become the first African Union member state to ratify the African Union Convention on Ending…

AfricanFeminism June 30, 2026
Featured, Ghana
June 23, 2026
What Theatre Refuses to Let Us Ignore in The Disappearance of Reverend Armah

I knew what the play was going to be about as soon as the first act opened, and two girls ran into the audience, describing an evil that had occurred. They said,…

AfricanFeminism June 23, 2026
Featured
June 19, 2026
We Love Grassroots Voices: We Just Don’t Think They Produce Knowledge

The first time I understood that the development sector does not believe what it says about grassroots knowledge, I was in a room in Harare watching a consultant present a financial sustainability…

AfricanFeminism June 19, 2026
Featured
June 9, 2026
Fortress Football: Empire, Anti-Blackness and the Capture of the Beautiful Game

The 2026 FIFA World Cup will unfold amid intensifying U.S. militarism, imperial consolidation, and border securitisation. Rather than standing outside these realities, the tournament risks functioning as spectacle for empire — projecting…

AfricanFeminism June 9, 2026
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
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