Zimbabwe: The Depoliticization of Feminism in Zimbabwe

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from… Read more »

Africa: Hiding the Coco - Women Farmers Anticipating Old Age

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Africa: The Continent Falling Behind - Africa's Placement in the Global Feminist Foreign Policy Discourse

Why has the Afro-feminist movement remained conspicuously absent in global discussions on Feminist Foreign Policy? Read more »

Africa: 'He Didn't Allow Me' - Gender and the Great Green Wall

Experiences in northeast Nigeria suggest women struggle to participate in climate initiatives unless gender dynamics are carefully integrated. Read more »

Cameroon: Conflict, Land Dispossession, and the Struggle for Gender Equality in Cameroon

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Africa: Malaria Is a Women's Rights Issue

When malaria rages, the women whose labour, visible and invisible, is the bedrock of the care economy, suffer; the effects reverberate across society. Read more »

Africa: African Women Won't Be Heard At Cop So We Wrote Our Own Climate Plan

The Women's Climate Assembly brought together movements from across Africa and came up with a powerful declaration. Read more »

Africa: Building the South-South Feminist Archive - an Interview With Ghiwa Sayegh of Kohl Journal

Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »

Africa: 20 Years After Maputo, It's a Long Road Ahead to Gender Equality

Two decades on from a landmark treaty advancing the rights of African women, gender equality remains alive on paper, elusive in practice. Read more »

South Sudan: Women's Rights in South Sudan - When Is the 'Right Time'?

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Tanzania: 'They Wish We Didn't Exist' - Tanzania School Goers Speak of Transport Woes

In the daily sharp-elbowed jostle to board daladalas, school students find themselves at the back of the queue. Read more »

Africa: Men Fighting, Women Breaking-Up - Sudanese Women's Movements, the Wing of the Patriarch?

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Africa: Co-Optation of Feminisms - the Funders' Agenda

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Burundi: 'Let The Women Be Respected' - Activists Tackle Femicide Problem

As authorities turn a blind eye to the growing cases of violence and spousal murder, women's rights activists are increasingly vocal. Read more »

Uganda: Well-Funded Riddles - Notes From Uganda's Sexual Culture War

As Christians fall out over gay rights, the Ugandan state, built on the martyrs who resisted homosexuality, has some soul-searching to do. Read more »

Africa: Blackness, Pan-African Consciousness and Women's Political Organising Through the Magazine AWA

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South Sudan: No Justice for Women, No Peace in South Sudan

The South Sudan crisis since 2013 has caused untold suffering to South Sudanese women. They have experienced displacement, loss of family members and gross human rights violations,… Read more »