African FeminismArticles

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi revisits the African Feminist Forum and its Charter to show how solidarity is built through conflict, accountability, and organizing practice.

Maxime Houinato compares Senegal’s parity lists with Benin’s reserved seats to ask when representation becomes power. Unexplained figures in the brief conflict with IPU chamber-level data.

Writing from her situated experience as a queer, polyamorous, pansexual African woman, Sihle Tshangela Mazibu reads self-discovery, desire, freedom, and healing in The Sex Lives of African Women.

Beginning with her interview relationship with Janet, Serena Owusua Dankwa examines how women’s intimacies in Ghana, bodily contact, and researcher positionality shape knowledge.

Drawing on fieldwork and historical material from Zambézia, Mozambique, Carmeliza Rosário asks how kinship, language, and social roles unsettle universal models of gender as individual identity.

Titilope F. Ajayi moves from Nairobi 1985 through everyday organizing, Bring Back Our Girls and digital action to reflect on African feminist practice, memory and generational debate.

Historian Madina Thiam’s three-part profile follows Bintou Sanankoua’s scholarship, teaching, feminist organizing and political life in Mali.

This policy brief examines the strength, fragmentation, financing, and political space of women’s movements across Africa, emphasizing that durable equality depends on autonomous collective power.

Through Tade Thompson’s Wormwood Trilogy, Jenna N. Hanchey and Godfried Asante explore how Africanfuturism repurposes colonial infrastructure to imagine queer and feminist life.

Minna Salami explores African feminist strands and the uses and limits of mapping distinct histories, places and intellectual traditions.

Adopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter links bodily autonomy and material rights to feminist organizations’ accountability and shared leadership.

The Maputo Protocol links reproductive autonomy, land, domestic work and public budgets, while leaving implementation open to scrutiny.

The Federation of South African Women connects racial liberation, legal equality, wages, housing and care, while organizing a historically situated collective voice.