• Magdala Louis

When Haiti’s national women’s team take to the field for ninety minutes, they allow the Haitian people to dream.

• AfroWave

Africa Is a Country is partnering with AfroWave Echoes to present their quarterly playlist of African music.

• Alasdair Howorth

Just two weeks on from Les Elephants greatest ever triumph, the Ivorian women’s national team is at its lowest point.

• Fatimah Kelleher

The Knowledge Portal of the Nawi Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective is a digital apex platform that collates and curates African women’s knowledge resources on the economy.

• Sean Jacobs

Gladys Nzimande-Tsolo, who died on 27 September 2023, was a South African freedom fighter. Why has she been forgotten?

• Kebotlhale Motseothata

How 'Dawn' magazine illustrates the significant role women played in South Africa’s armed struggle against apartheid.

• Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse

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.

• The Senegalese Feminist Network

In Senegal, women's bodies are weaponized as political objects in electoral battles.

• Khanya Mtshali

Noni Jabavu was one of South Africa’s most trailblazing writers. Her commitment to elite ambivalence makes it difficult to hail her as a black feminist icon.

• Ayomide Bayowa

Nigerian Canadian poet Ayomide Bayowa discusses the influences behind his latest poetry collection.

• Rama Salla Dieng

The fiction of Senegalese writer and filmmaker Khady Sylla not only used speech to create worlds and ways of being in the world, but used speech as a world and a character in its own right.

• Désọ́lá

For black women in particular, the individual pursuit of a soft, consumption-driven life is a fragile approach to securing social justice.

• Barbara Boswell

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.

• Fungai Machirori

The music and art of Lauryn Hill and Chiwoniso Maraire combined sexiness with political consciousness, offering Black women a way out of rigid categorization.

• Amuna Wagner

In a country as diverse and divided as Sudan, who gets to define women’s rights and struggles?

• Chems Eddoha Boraki

African women en route to Europe often land up stuck in Morocco, taking on precarious work as hairdressers and beauticians.

• Rama Salla Dieng

Filmmaker Khady Sylla amplifies the voices of and gives visibility to the domestic workers tending to the homes of Africa’s middle classes.

• Tabara Korka Ndiaye

The Senegalese director, Safi Faye’s classic 1996 film, Mossane, is a love tragedy and a spiritual quest in Sereer land.

• Imane El Fakkaoui

For African women passing through Morocco en route to Europe, begging on the streets becomes a way to support themselves, but also reinforces humiliation and shame.

• Marie Meyerding

Mabel Cetu is considered South Africa's first Black woman photojournalist and documented the everyday lives of Black communities in the 1950s.