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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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Au Sénégal, le débat autour des droits des personnes LGBTQ a franchi un nouveau seuil avec l’adoption par l’Assemblée nationale d’une loi visant à durcir la criminalisation de l’homosexualité. Le texte a…