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A younger generation of feminists will remember her, above all, for her remarkable championing of the struggle against patriarchy.
The queen of Xhosa music has passed away. She reinvigorated ancient Xhosa cultural traditions through performance and teaching.
Under South African law, girls have the right to continue their schooling through and after their pregnancies.
In Kenya, the prevalence of female genital mutilation has dropped by 24.2 percentage points where an alternative rite of passage is being tried.
There was a significant shift towards African football as a business rather than football as development.
There are personal, environmental and structural factors that influence a patient’s ability to adhere to treatment.
South Africa had one of the best national gender machineries globally. But, these were dismantled and replaced with a dysfunctional ministry for women, youth and people with disabilities.
Education is important for girls’ future earning power and the promotion of their lifelong health and socioeconomic well-being.
Study finds that the language used in news reports is often part of the problem, not the solution.
The Drum journalist was a rare woman in a male-dominated world. Her autobiography has now been published after her death.
Many people accept the Egyptian government’s restrictions on freedoms, for a variety of conflicting reasons.
Only a small percentage of women in rural areas have access to the Internet, so participation in online activism is limited to urban centres.
Africans are adopting podcasting as a way of telling their own stories. In one class in Egypt, this took a feminist turn.
Regulating the sex work industry is the only way to protect sex workers from abuse and violence.
As with Ebola, it is often only when the harm is done that people working on the response realise health emergencies disproportionately harm women.
Breast cancer is curable, provided it is detected early and treated promptly.
South Africa’s land reform programme is designed for a socio-economic context that doesn’t exist.
Royal women play important roles in succession disputes, such as the naming of King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu’s heir.
This movie is absolutely worth seeing. But it’s best viewed with the awareness of its significant alterations of history.
Top contributors
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Communications Specialist, University of California, San Francisco
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Chief Albert Luthuli Research Chair, University of South Africa
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Communications, Howard University
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Professor of Social Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria
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Policy research officer, African Population and Health Research Center
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Sociologist/Criminologist/Victimologist and Media Communication Expert, University of Ibadan
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Doctoral Researcher: Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Johannesburg
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Dornsife Endowed Professor of Global Health, Drexel University
