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How 'Dawn' magazine illustrates the significant role women played in South Africa’s armed struggle against apartheid.
How 'Dawn' magazine illustrates the significant role women played in South Africa’s armed struggle against apartheid.
In her new biography of South African writer Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell shows how the publishing industry historically excluded Black women, and how they wrote in spite of that.
By questioning black masculinity in post-apartheid South Africa, Thando Mgqolozana became one of the most impactful writers of his time. But then he got accused of the same thing he opposed.
In Senegal, women's bodies are weaponized as political objects in electoral battles.
While editing a collection of the writings of South African feminist Lauretta Ngcobo, Barbara Boswell found inspiration in texts that reflected Ngcobo’s sense that writing is an exercise of freedom.
How might refugee as well as forced migration studies benefit from the movement to decolonize all aspects of African Studies?
In the second of five articles on Afrobeat music in South America, political scientist Simon Akindes writes about the all women and nonbinary Brazilian band, Funmilayo Afrobeat Orquestra.
The first book collection dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives has seen the light. One of the editors breaks down the content.
One year, ten years, one hundred years on, the path for Egypt’s women has not been linear.
To have—or, at least, claim—a sense of self that is “already empowered” or happily unencumbered by power relations, requires a fair bit of material privilege.
El Sadaawi died on March 21, 2021. Her complex and evolving positions mean there is more than one version of her to commemorate.
A new book about Rose Chibambo lifts the veil of post-colonial romanticism from her story. We get a moving, nuanced portrait in her own words.
South African singer Sibongile Khumalo (1957-2021) was a musical giant. She also launched her own label and advocated for women's rights.
Amilcar Cabral is a household name. But what happened to the young women like Joana Gomes who helped lead Guinea Bissau’s independence struggle?
What lessons for today are there from how post-independence governments in Africa conceptualized sovereignty?
We need to reimagine our conceptions of feminist justice in South Africa: Putting people in cages is not liberation.
Islam is interpreted to establish the dominance of men, and this male supremacy is at the root of all our problems.
Teacher, journalist, and photographer, Ndeye Seck, talks about feminism and her teaching practice, the Senegalese education system and her passion for football.
What it means to be a man and a feminist.