Still on the issue of Agency, the following post was originally published on Open Democracy in August 2012. It is re-posted here with the permission of the author, Sehin Teferra, who is…
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Dr. Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma 2010-2020 has been declared the African Women’s Decade by the African Union General Assembly – a decade which aims to bring African women’s issues to the center of…
What words come to mind when you think of taxes and tax collectors? I highly doubt passionate and formidable will make it to your vocabulary. But in the midst of an environment…
In a post from March 2012 here, i discussed the issue of modern day slavery of Ethiopian women in the middle-east and how countries like Indonesia and the Philippines insisted on better…
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…