The Association of Women in Business (AWiB) is celebrating women’s agency in the month of May. Specifically, on May 17th at the UNECA, in a forum designed to encourage management level professionals…
Email me at africanfeminism@gmail.com if you would like tickets to this exciting forum at the UNECA on May 17th. ~ ~ Love & Light
This spoken word poetry piece is one i wrote and recorded last year in celebrating the “pillars of African agriculture”.
In this amusing post, Samson Tesfaye, sheds light on what it means to jointly exercise agency in partnership with his wife. Underlining the theme of this blog in 2012, he poignantly encourages…
She mostly comes from a poor community. She is female which introduces a whole new dimension to her experiences in a foreign land. She’s mostly Christian, newly converted to Islam to meet…
Shopping around for insurance for my new car over the last week, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that at least one of the private insurance firms in town offers a discount…
Several explanations are used to define agency; "an individual's (or group's) ability to make effective choices and to transform those choices into desired outcomes" "a dialectic of freedom and constraint" "how women…
So proclaimed a sticker that used to hang on the door of my favorite professor in graduate school, and I was reminded of it when I attended a forum on men’s engagement…
Anna Mwalagho is a Kenyan spoken word artist, actress, dancer, singer and storyteller. In this poetic piece, Anna reflects on the journey of African women, their struggles and success and paints a…
“Together for a Life Free of Violence“ A film festival entitled “Together for a Life Free of Violence” is currently showing…