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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.

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.

Oxford scholar Charlotte Cooper-Davis follows The City of Ladies into contemporary installation and performance, raising a further question: whose bodies and memories can shape an imagined city?

Sara Penn uses Mary Prince’s 1831 testimony to examine feminist bibliography: how genre labels, collaborative authorship, and archival gaps shape who can be read.

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

Sonja Arntzen reads three Heian women's diaries through poetry, marriage, court labor, and reading, showing how literary form shaped self-writing while exposing questions of class and representation.

In this 1904 address, Qiu Jin links footbinding, marriage, education and women’s self-reliance to late-Qing politics, while exposing the tension between national renewal and women’s freedom.

In her 1691 reply to Sor Filotea, Sor Juana uses autobiography, theology and classical learning to defend women’s study. This reading keeps the convent setting, her elite position and the argument’s limits in view.