The age of the influencer
One African feminist's view on how social media clout chasing has stalled progressive politics.
One African feminist's view on how social media clout chasing has stalled progressive politics.
A movement of young feminists are fighting back against patriarchy and rape culture in Afropop music in Ghana.
In a heteronormative society like Nigeria, men are entitled to sex with any and all women.
There are far richer and complex stories to the Africa's history than we think we know; especially the perspectives of African women.
How the celebrated film Black Panther stacks up in its depiction of decolonized African feminism.
Neoliberalism's model of social justice: the rich prosper, but an appropriate percentage of them are minorities or women.
'Words of a Rebel Sistah' wants to create a counter-culture in which women are liberated and all forms of oppression are eradicated.
Across Africa, the working poor often end up carrying the burden of raising tax revenue while the multinationals go scot-free. And women bear the brunt of it.
It has failed repeatedly to check misogyny within the ANC and made shallow attempts to check misogyny outside the movement.
Zimbabwean photographer, Nancy Mteki: "If we don’t stand up for ourselves, no one else is going to do it."
Dama do Bling is sometimes called a Lusophone Queen Latifah and Mozambican Lil Kim. The comparison doesn't always work.
As the number of active female bloggers has increased, so too has the level of discourse around the dynamism and contradictions of life as a Zimbabwean woman.
Makode Linde calls his approach Afromantics: it use the blackface to show the connection between stereotypes, part of the same system of oppression.
Nawal el-Saadawi on Al Jazeera English.
While reviewing this week’s film, Out of Africa (1985), for our series Africa on Film, I