Anti-blackness has been defined by scholars referring to a global system rooted in the dehumanization of black bodies. It is what it means to be in a world where black people are…
Every year, August 19 marks World Humanitarian Day. I have always celebrated the “do-gooders” devoted to “protecting the lives of all humanity by any means necessary”. I always basked in awe and…
Emily is a 20-year-old woman who I met in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi last year. I was there to film a documentary on the western import of homophobia. While there, my crew and…
A recent conversation that Black Women Radicals created, a space that featured some of my all-time fave African radical feminists like Jessica Horn, Rosebell Kagumire and new faves Blessol Gathoni, Kinna Likimani,…
Four months ago, amidst lockdown and trying to avert suicide attempts situations in my volunteerism work, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. This diagnosis happened by chance; I was at the time…
The rate of sexual and gender-based violence in Namibia is so high that women fear walking down the street to catch a taxi to and from work, that women fear going outside…
As a normative frame, religion shapes the construction of gender, gender relations and womanhood in various ways. This is evident in the layered connection between fantasies of national wellbeing, religion and womanhood. …
I had lunch with my girls the other weekend after not seeing each other for some months. Like so many of our other conversations, the topic was about our bodies. This time…
Political shows and programmes in Ghanaian media are male-dominated. Turn on your radio or TV set any morning, what greets you are the usual faces and voices of men. Come back to…
She woke up terrified, alone, and hopeless trying to process and write her dream. These were the protagonists: Her The rapist Her mother’s priest/pastor Her friends A bunch of women who were…