African FeminismArticles

This 2026 analysis moves beyond counting women in office to examine the colonial and institutional structures that continue to restrict political authority in West and Central Africa.

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.

Minna Salami maps African feminism as a dynamic intellectual and movement tradition, resisting both Western universalism and the claim that feminism is alien to African histories.

Adopted in Accra in 2006, the Charter defines African feminism as a political commitment to dismantling patriarchy while demanding accountability inside feminist organizations themselves.