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Brazzaville: Congolese women mobilise around gender parity

Thursday, June 13th, 2013 | Tags: Antoinette Sassou N’guesso, Brazaville, Congo, Rissi Assani-Alabi
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I used to say with faith that the time will come for francophone women to start extensive mobilization work around women’s human rights issues. Yes, I think the time has now come. Last year young feminists from central Africa gathered in Congo Brazzaville to debate on challenges facing the feminist movement in the region. Together [...]

African Feminists

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013 | Tags: African, Feminism, Feminist, Tomupeishe Maphosa, Tumo
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Click below to read Tomupeishe Maphosa’s article ‘African Feminists’ published in IOB Exchange to Change, March 2013, Issue No. 23, pages 16-19 African Feminists – TomupeisheAfrican Feminists – Tomupeishe

Rosalie Eldora Sindi Medar-Gould: 27th May 1944 – 9th April 2013

Friday, April 12th, 2013 | Tags: Feminist, Medar-Gould, Nigeria, Rest in Peace, Rest in Power, Sindi
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I cannot really remember when I met Sindi. I’ve tried hard in the last few days since the news of her death; tried recalling when I met her and under what circumstances and am sure, a sister somewhere would have been witness to our meeting because that was how Sindi was. She gathered us like [...]

Capture women’s stories

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 | Tags: 60seconds, BBC, nana darkoa sekyiamah, The Forum
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On the 16th of March 2013, I was a guest on the BBC World Service’s ‘The Forum‘ and was offered the chance to pitch a 60 second idea that could potentially change the world. My idea was very simple. We can change the world by capturing the stories of women. Especially those stories from women [...]

Feminists We Love: Leigh Ann van der Merwe

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 | Tags: Activism, African, Feminist, Leigh Ann van der Merwe, S.H.E., South Africa, Trans, Transgender
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This post was originally shared on ‘the feminist wire‘ Leigh Ann van der Merwe was born in 1982 in Ugie, Eastern Cape of South Africa. Growing up as a gender questioning person, she struggled to conform to typical male gender codes and as a result always felt left out both in family life and at [...]

What’s new in African feminisms: Pop, People and Politics

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013 | Tags: African, Feminism, Feminist, Jessica Horn, Meklit Hadero, nana darkoa sekyiamah, people, politics, pontso mafethe, pop, Rita Ray, Southbank Centre, Women of the World
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Watch footage of ‘What’s new in African feminisms: Pop, People and Politics’ with Jessica Horn, a founding member of the AFF, writer and women’s rights consultant; Rita Ray, DJ, Presenter and African music specialist; Meklit Hadero, musician, cultural activist, and Senior TED fellow; and Pontso Mafete, Programme Manager for Women and Girls at Comic Relief [...]

Feminists We Love – Yara Sallam, Egypt

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 | Tags: Egypt, Feminism, Hakima Abbas, Nazra for Women's Rights, Yara Sallam
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This interview by Hakima Abbas was originally shared on ‘the feminist wire‘ on the 1st of March 2013 Yara Sallam is the Women Human Rights Defenders Program manager at Nazra for Feminist Studies, the first program in Egypt that focuses on women human rights defenders. Yara previously worked as a professional legal assistant at [...]

Meklit Hadero joins the ‘What’s new in African feminisms: Pop, People and Politics’ panel at WOW

Sunday, March 10th, 2013 | Tags: African feminisms, Meklit Hadero, people, politics, pop, Southbank, WOW
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We’re delighted to have the talented musician and activist Meklit Hadero join us at “What’s new in African Feminisms? Pop, People and Politics” panel as part of the Women of the World Festival. This is what Joshua Jelly [...]

‘What’s new in African feminisms’? A panel discussion at the ‘Women of the World’ festival at the Southbank, London

Thursday, February 28th, 2013 | Posted in Blog | 2 Comment(s)

On Sunday 10 March 2013, 1:30pm – 3:00pm at The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall the African Feminist Forum (AFF) and the African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) will present a panel on ‘What’s new in African feminisms? Pop, People and Politics’. Here’s a teaser of what will be discussed: African women are gaining force in [...]

4 African Feminists Recognised in Applause Africa’s list of ’40 under 40′ changemakers

Friday, January 25th, 2013 | Tags: AA40Under40, African feminists, Applause Africa, changemakers, influence
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Good News. 4 African Feminists, Hakima Abbas, Jessica Horn, Minna Salami and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah were included in Applause Africa’s list of 40 inspirational Africans in their recent changemaker edition. Were there any other African feminist sisters on this list? Let us know via the comments box. In the mean time check out the profiles [...]