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Her book Daughters of Africa brought black women writers into the literary canon.
The Camões Prize is the most important award for Portuguese literature, and Paulina Chiziane is the first African woman to receive it.
A commanding presence on the global literary stage, Ama Ata Aidoo was a powerful feminist voice with a prolific output.
She paved the way for women to play the mbira – and then took the ancient tradition global.
A powerful new book restores the writer and feminist politician to her rightful place in history.
A younger generation of feminists will remember her, above all, for her remarkable championing of the struggle against patriarchy.
Nigeria’s Afrobeats stars love to identify with Fela’s activism and music - but their tributes are becoming opportunistic and empty.
Activists and scholars must rethink their neglect of male victims if South Africa is to better understand and resist sexual violence.
Undocumented for decades, black South African feminists are increasingly visible. The essays in Surfacing present 22 leading thinkers.
Her 1975 novel demonstrated a far more radical feminism than was common in Africa and the Arab world – a precursor of the #MenAreTrash anger of today.
She believed that writing is an act of speaking the truth, an act of courage, that must serve the people and not those in power.
To understand her contribution to public debate, it’s important to see her in the context of the historical moment that made her work possible, necessary and provocative.
A firebrand activist for women’s rights, her novels espoused truths that made her hugely unpopular with the government.
Although society portrays a woman who earns a living as free and empowered, outdated values and stereotypes still promote discrimination against female breadwinners.
Written from prison, the new book of poems by the writer, academic and activist shows her fire but also her deep love for Uganda.
South Africa has a long history of women at the helm of its foreign affairs ministry but this hasn’t translated into a gender balanced foreign policy environment
South Africa has tended to prioritise race relations over gender relations since formal apartheid ended.
All three female contenders for the presidency of the ANC and South Africa have strong liberation struggle credentials and have also contributed to democracy. But, are they up to the job?
African Studies remains a colonised space rife with misrepresentation, homogenisation and essentialising about Africa.
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Assistant Professor in International Social and Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Clinical Psychologist, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer, Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa
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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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Researcher, Unit for Religion and Development Research, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University
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Research Assistant: Sexual and Reproductive Health rights, University of the Witwatersrand
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Visiting Scholar, School of Human and Community Development, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Professor in International Politics, University of South Africa
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Lecturer, Academic development/feminism, Rhodes University
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Postdoctoral fellow, SARChi Chair in Gender politics, Stellenbosch University
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Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Fellow, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
