Social Media Ideas for African Feminist Literature

Waar is de feministische solidariteit als het om Soedanese vrouwen gaat?

African Migrant Women In India And Everyday Racism

The discrimination faced by African women as they navigate Indian cities is deeply embedded in social hierarchies that precede their arrival. The post African Migrant Women In Indi...

Feminist economics needs to be decolonized

Gisela Carrasco-Miró‘s Decolonizing Feminist Economics explores how mainstream and feminist economics remain shaped by colonialism, patriarchy and extractivism. Drawing on decoloni...

African Rights Advocates Coordinate Response to Family Law Backlash

NAIROBI, August 13 (IPS) - Women’s rights advocates, judges and lawyers have launched a coordinated campaign to reform family laws that discriminate against women and girls in Afr...

Nine Books by Black Women About Travel, Belonging and the Search for Home

Over the years, I’ve immersed myself in the stories of other Black women, not only as literary models, but as encouragement that the world might actually want to hear my story, my...

12 Books at the Heart of Congolese Literature

For decades, Congolese writers have used fiction to chronicle the forces that have shaped life in the Congo, from colonialism and dictatorship to migration, memory and everyday res...

22 African Literature Books That Made 2016 Unforgettable

Ten years ago, readers were introduced to a remarkable crop of books that would go on to shape contemporary African literature in ways few could have predicted. Yaa Gyasi arrived w...

Praise Otito Obanya: Feminism Is Not About Chores – That’s What We Keep Getting Wrong

Feminism is widely discussed among friends, within families, and across the media, but too often the conversation gets dragged into trivialities – who cooks, who changes the car ty...

Meanwhile in Kigali…Learning, Unlearning and the Stories We Choose to Tell About Women in Politics

Women politicians are often asked questions about balancing family and leadership responsibilities, their personalities, their clothing or their emotional responses, issues that ra...

Modjaji Books Brings Together 19 Poets from Across Southern Africa to Release Gathered Seams

Modjaji Books has released Gathered Seams, a poetry anthology gathering nineteen poems from women writers across Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa. Edited by Li...

Muslims and the F-Word: Feminism, Dhulm, and Jahiliyyah

Introduction “Why are Muslim women becoming feminists?” is the (not so) new “why are Muslim youth becoming radicalized?” sentiment… not amongst non-Muslims fearing the paths of ang...

For Gloria Steinem, Some of Her Biggest Lessons Came From Black Women

How Black Women influenced Gloria Steinem and the Feminist Movement.

Africa: 'My Success Is Not Mine Alone' - Meet the Young Women Working to Eliminate Violence Against Women and Girls

[Spotlight Initiative] Ahead of World Youth Day on 12 August, Spotlight Initiative shines a light on some of the young activists who are working to make their communities - and the...

Ms. Global: Genocide in Sudan, Withdrawal of HIV Funding in South Africa, Two Killed in Protests in Afghanistan Over Arr...

The U.S. ranks as the 19th most dangerous country for women, 11th in maternal mortality, 30th in closing the gender pay gap, 75th in women’s political representation, and painfully...

Nigerian feminist says she would end pregnancy if she was carrying a boy

A Nigerian feminist has drawn attention online after sharing her view

Kimberlé Crenshaw – becoming a “backtalker” and a life fighting injustice

Kimberlé Crenshaw is a legal scholar, feminist theorist, co-founder of critical race theory and the thinker behind “intersectionality.” Her new memoir, Backtalker, describes the ex...

’76 Inked!: A Women’s Month Festival Honouring Sibongile Mkhabela, 50 Years After the Soweto Uprising

Seventy years ago, on August 9, 1956, thousands of South African women of all races marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest the extension of pass laws to Black women,...

Africa: Inside a Game Challenging Masculinity

[allAfrica] Mombasa, Kenya -- The room was loud - not with argument, but with laughter.

Abebi AfroNonfiction Foundation Launches Inaugural Continental Fellowship for African Women Writers | Closes September 1...

The Abebi AfroNonfiction Foundation has announced the inaugural Abebi AfroNonfiction Fellowship, a new pan-African writing initiative for women working in creative nonfiction. The...

Ending FGM Through Women's Voices

[Daily News] WHEN Yasinta Zakaria speaks about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), she does not speak from theory. She speaks from memory from pain she says has stayed with her for ye...

‘What’s happened to us? Where did we get lost?’ Zimbabwe reckons with the reality of violence against women

The deaths of a Bulawayo mother and her daughters spark calls for an urgent action on gender-based violenceThe three white coffins were draped in white lace and topped with small s...

The Maternal Saviour: Why Indian Feminist Dystopias Struggle To Imagine Women Beyond Motherhood

When popular culture attempts to portray a woman dismantling an authoritarian state, it hits a creative ceiling. It cannot imagine her hating the regime on principle, for her radic...

Atima Omara Reclaims “Instigator” as a Name for Black Women Who Change America

At 16, Barbara Johns had had enough. In 1951, after years of attending an overcrowded, dilapidated school in Jim Crow-era Virginia, she secretly organised her classmates to strike...

Reflections on Mapping an A–Z Philosophy BlackList

Introduction First launched in 2025 as part of Black History Month programming, the project has grown into what is now titled the A–Z Philosophy BlackList, an expanding intellectua...