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VIBRANTLY, DEFIANTLY … (RE)BUILDING ZIMBABWE.

Vibrance is energy. Lots of it; in a concerted space. Defiance is energy. Lots of it; in spite of all the odds. Zimbabwe Feminist Forum (re)builds the land, vibrantly, defiantly in a gathering of women who came together to identify, envision, and inspire a nurturing, progressive and fair atmosphere in the areas of nationhood,statehood, citizenship, […]

The 3rd African Feminist Forum: Conference Report, 2010

Feminist Connections: Reconnecting with ourselves and our Communities Please click link below to access PDF of report The 3rd African Feminist Forum: Conference Report, 2010

The 2nd African Feminist Forum: Conference Report 2008

Feminist Power, Agency and Resistance: New Visions for a Revitalised Continent Click link below to access PDF of report: The 2nd African Feminist Forum: Conference Report 2008  

Feminist Charter in Wolof/Sarte Bi Lal Terelinu Jigéen Yi Ci Afrig

Please click the link below for the African Feminist Charter in Wolof Feminist Charter in wolof

Report of the 1st African Feminist Forum: Reclaiming Our Spaces

The first African Feminist Forum (AFF) took place from 15th – 19th November 2006, bringing together 120 participants from 16 African countries and the Diaspora working at different levels of feminist engagement and activism such as academia, NGOs (at international, regional, national and local levels), philanthropy, the Arts and media, and those working in the […]

Voice, Power and Soul: Portraits of African Feminists

Voice, Power and Soul: Portraits of African Feminists is the first book of its kind. In their own words, 79 African feminists describe their personal evolution as feminists, their activist work and their vision for an African continent and indeed a world framed by equality and respect for women’s rights. The women profiled represent over […]

Feeding Freedoms Hunger: Reflections on the Second African Feminist Forum

Originally published on the Feminist Africa Website, December 2008, www.feministafrica.org. There is something magical about a gathering of African feminists: rooms filled with the breath and radiant minds of women seeking more nourishing landscapes of social existence and more liberating forms of political and cultural expression. It is the earthly magic of women’s collective resistance, […]

Fundamentalism and Women’s Rights’ in Africa

The essential paradox about a globalised world is that as global business and micro politics have relentlessly spread across the globe, there has been a tendency for many people to get closer to the ethnic, national, religious and racial identities. This nestling within a known identity has been seen as a form of seeking certainty […]

Executive Summary of the Report of the 1st African Feminist Forum: Reclaiming Our Spaces

‘Reclaiming our spaces’ - Executive summary of the 1st African Feminist Forum: The journey that led to the creation of the space in which African feminists can engage in the process of internal reflection, reconnection with one another and with the movement; a space free of the ‘ifs’, ‘ands’, or ‘buts’ that have for so […]

The Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists

The Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists is a tool that has been widely used at national and local levels to raise awareness, to educate and to mobilize wider support for the objectives of the feminist movement in Africa. The charter has been widely circulated and is currently being used to inform other regional […]