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).…
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…
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…