One afternoon in 2007 as we were handing out food donations to needy households, a poor single mother brought her daughter to us for counseling. Her daughter had bled through the rag…
Many efforts towards HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services overlook the challenging environment in which women and girls are limited to enjoy their right to access information and services, which is rooted…
An incident last Sunday morning with friends of my child (two girls and a boy between the ages of 6 and 8 in our neighbourhood) recently demonstrated to me how early in…
Have you heard of Jose Garcia? Garcia, a 15 year old high school student in Miami, shot to Instagram fame in early 2015 when his #realmensupportwomen hit the web, calling for men…
On the phone with a good friend the other day, he very casually made a comment that some of my Facebook posts are “hitting below the belt” for the men around me.…
The average African woman may see nothing wrong in serving her boss coffee for the following reasons: It is her job. She feels her job might be threatened if she refuses to.…
Being a feminist is, I imagine, a lot like being pregnant: people feel an overwhelming urge to give you unsolicited advice.
A few weeks ago, an Ethiopian news site – Fana Broadcasting Corporation – posted a news item here, about the case of a young man who took his girlfriend’s life claiming that…
On May 8th or what is internationally celebrated as Mothers’ Day, an Addis Ababa bar posted a Facebook advert that offended many who came across the post. All including AfricanFeminism (AF) team…
On January 1, 2011 i started the site ethiopianfeminist.wordpress.com a short three months after i had moved back to Addis Ababa. My aim initially was to document my observations on issues of…