October 30, 2018
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 »
April 19, 2017
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 »
June 30, 2015
Tanzania: Arusha To Host 3rd African Grantmakers Network Assembly July 1-3, 2015
Activist and humanitarian Graça Machel, Nobel laureate, Leymah Gbowee and HRH Sylvia Nagginda of Buganda will be among keynote speakers and presenters at this year's African… Read more »
May 29, 2015
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 »
May 07, 2015
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 »
October 24, 2014
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 »
October 10, 2013
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 »
September 23, 2013
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 »
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