While sometimes very amusing, this can be an annoyance that easily transcends to distraction and sometimes even the occasional punch in the proverbial gut from those special bullies.
Six days of the week I find myself on a train from Diep river station to Cape Town station. You can find me either dosing off or lost in a book, whatever…
Feminists are the worst, Feminists just don’t get it, Feminists don’t do enough to silence their radical wing. Ever heard a variation of some of these terms? What do you think about…
AF is pleased to announce that we’ve been selected for the East Africa Media Lab Collaboration project initiated by icebauhaus & iceaddis. The initiative is aimed at introducing new formats of collaboration…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
” 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).…