Africa: How A Healing Retreat for Feminist Activists Can Advance Movement Building

Earlier this year, a video went viral on Ghanaian Twitter of six teen boys raping a young girl. Despite her resistance, these boys held her down and took turns. What haunted me… Read more »

Africa: AWDF: Amplifying African Women's Voices

African women do inspirational work every day. That is why we strive to document their art and work, and provide them with the tools and platforms to tell their own stories. Read more »

Africa: Future Africa: A Dialogue by AWDF and IDEG to Launch AWDF Futures Initiative

African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is partnering with the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG)- a cutting edge public policy think tank based in Ghana- to launch… Read more »

Africa: The AWDF African Women In Film (AWIF) Award

The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) African Women In Film Award is presented to an African woman who has demonstrated through her work measurable efforts to change the… Read more »

Africa: Call for Applications For AWDF's Women Writers Workshop 2015

The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) in collaboration with FEMRITE - Uganda Women Writers Association, invites African women writers and journalists to apply for the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Rise is Leaving Rural Children Behind

As Ghanaians we are rightly proud of our national achievements; winning early independence, championing pan-Africanism and supporting liberation struggles across the continent,… Read more »

Africa: Keepers of the Flame - Reflections On the 2nd African Women's Film Forum

Nearly two weeks after beginning a new position as Knowledge Management Specialist at AWDF, I joined our team in hosting the 2nd African Women in Film Forum [AWIFF] in Accra… Read more »

Africa: The 2nd African Women in Film Forum Opens

Fifty filmmakers, writers and cultural producers from Burkina Faso, France, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zimbabwe are… Read more »