Gender Relations

The African is certainly the richest in the world when it comes to the diversity of gender relations. How do African women activists analyse the present gender relations in th4eir countries and in the global context? Which is the critique African feminists have with regard to the positions of their counterparts in the North?

Nozipho Mabebe Wright: Who has access to renewable energies in Africa?

In her paper "Who has access to renewable energies in Africa?" the Energia Africa Programme Coordinator Nozipho Mabebe Wright discusses the importance of renewable energies for... |+| read article

Knowledge and Power in Algeria: An Interview with Daho Djerbal on the Twentieth Anniversary of NAQD by Muriam Haleh Davis

It is still very possible to work on Algeria without ever passing through the Contrôle Passeport in Algiers. For a host of reasons—archival, bureaucratic, historical and, perhaps, psychological—Algeria remains on the margins of its own historiography.... |+| read article

Amber Murrey: The revolution and the emancipation of women - A Reflection on Sankara’s Speech, 25 Years Later

Firs published by Pambazuka.org: The life and work of Thomas Sankara can be taken as a reminder of both the power and potential for human agency to enact transformation.

I would like to situate my ideas within the geo-political context of the... |+| read article

An Open Letter from African women to the Minister of Culture: The Venus Hottentot Cake, by blackfeminist.org

April 21, 2012. We the undersigned women of African /African descent and our supporters, which include anti-racist activists, scholars community leaders and Faith leaders wish to address the Swedish Venus Hottentot Cake Incident. First, we... |+| read article