African Feminism (AF)

African women’s exhaustion under the weight of care responsibilities has long been labelled as resilience. Across many communities, the ability to “hold things together” is treated less as evidence of systemic strain and more as a natural extension of womanhood. Yet globally, women continue to carry more than 75% of unpaid care work, with the burden particularly pronounced ac...

The African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights – a binding treaty between the member states of the African Union which guarantees individual and collective rights – was born from a radical dream in 1981 as a continent emerging from the scars of colonialism  built its own architecture of hope. It was a promise of radical interdependence, a commitment to a world where th...

When Uganda passed the  Anti Homosexuality Act of 2023, activists warned that the law would be used to marginalise a disadvantaged community further. In the months that followed, Ugandan officials claimed first that the law would not be implemented, and that they were not targeting consensual relations. They insisted that their main focus would be “recruiters” and still ...