• Rasna Warah

Women say it is their turn to lead the United Nations. But can a female head of the UN change the organization’s work culture and correct the power imbalances among UN member states?

• Timwa Lipenga

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.

• Vishnu Bachani

Nigeria’s 2021 submission to the Oscars probes the psychology and propaganda of militant jihadism through the eyes of two sisters.

• Henning Melber

South African singer Sibongile Khumalo (1957-2021) was a musical giant. She also launched her own label and advocated for women's rights.

• Ricci Shryock

Amilcar Cabral is a household name. But what happened to the young women like Joana Gomes who helped lead Guinea Bissau’s independence struggle?

• Sara Salem

What lessons for today are there from how post-independence governments in Africa conceptualized sovereignty?

• Youlendree Appasamy

South Africa's history of indentured labor leaves behind a legacy of violence against women among the country's South Asian population.

• Stella Nyanzi

Ugandan activist and politician Dr. Stella Nyanzi challenges a new generation of women to take up the struggle for political freedoms and revolution.

• Dariusz Dziewanski

Young Africans are breathing life into Tupac’s memory, channeling his image and his music to be heard and seen in social spaces where they feel neither audible nor visible.

• Kwamchetsi Makokha

Kenya's 2010 Constitution put limits on men's dominance of public institutions, including parliament. Since then, men have done everything to sabotage it, but also to scrap it altogether.

• Funmilayo Obasa

Women in Nigeria's Kaduna state march naked and partially dressed to demand an end to deadly violence. In the process, they challenge norms about the female body.

• Jessica Ott

Tanzanian universities are beginning to tackle “sextortion.” Will new policies and attention to sexual harassment on campuses make a difference?

• Seble Samuel

The exhibition, 'Men Lebsa Neber,' features a staggering collection of the clothes and stories of rape survivors across Ethiopia.

• Jessica Ott

The death of a University of Dar es Salaam student 30 years ago and sexual harassment in Tanzanian higher education now.

• Mwanahamisi Singano

On the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (FEMNET) based in Kenya.

• Ope Adetayo

The hashtag movement #WeAreTired highlights that rape is an epidemic in Nigeria, but nobody in power wants to tackle it.

• Maimouna Thior
• Adama Pouye

Islam is interpreted to establish the dominance of men, and this male supremacy is at the root of all our problems.

• Elizabeth W. Giorgis

First published in 2018, Aida Edemariam’s The Wife’s Tale is an extraordinary book that will help in opening up new narratives about women's histories.

• Mohamadou Mbougar Sarr

What it means to be a man and a feminist.

• Stephanie Musho

A series of social and political interventions are required to bring down Kenya’s startling teenage pregnancy statistics.