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🗓️29 May at 2 pm UTC

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In #Senegal , the conversations on the poor representation of women in the new government continue.

Fatou Warkha Sambe, founder of WarkhaTv and Co-Coordinator of the Network of Feminists in Senegal shares her analysis.

⏫️ #PressPlay and join the conversation.

#Eyala #AfrifemLife

We are excited to unveil a fellowship program, funded by Open Society Foundations, addressing African cultural heritage & repatriation!

Applications open June 2024.

Visit our website to stay updated and learn more: theafricainstitute.org/open-society-g…

[Call for Applications]
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The @centreforhumanrights will host a one-week intensive short course on Children's Rights in Africa from 17 – 21 June 2024.

Apply online at chr.up.ac.za/ahrc before 6 June 2024

'The impact of war on my loved ones in Sudan is devastating. Many Eritreans, like my uncle, were uprooted from their homes, and forced to abandon everything they had built and begin anew. It's a heartbreaking reality that underscores the indiscriminate cruelty of conflict.

🚨 The Sudan conflict isn't just affecting its citizens, Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees are bearing the brunt too!

For decades, Sudan hosted refugees fleeing conflict and persecution from their countries, including over 125,000 Eritreans and 69,500 Ethiopians.

But now, the war

What is the consequences of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs in Ethiopia approving medicalized FGM? Thread:

'Women have always been marginalized in politics in #Senegal : the three measures the government must take.'- Rama Salla DIENG
theconversation.com/les-femmes-ont…

“The function of freedom is to free somebody else”

And we continue for liberation. 🌹✊🏾

Minutes ago, I listened to a rendition of my poem, 'A stranger in my mother's house' at Liberation Alliance Africa 's read-along and got teary-eyed.

Very grateful that it found home in the #RevolutionaryHope anthology.

Download the anthology here: liberationallianceafrica.com/the-makings-of…

The French platform in Uganda parading low low conversations on feminism when Ugandan feminists are here and have worked for generations!

What’s your agenda? I don’t think it’s about the people brought on this platform, it’s about who owns the platform and their intentions!

So #France can even now equate this to implementing #FFP in #Africa . The reason we need to do a reality check of how #FFP is being implemented in African countries. AfricanFeminism (AF) Feminist Foreign Policy Collaborative Uganda Feminist Forum (UFF) prof toni haastrup FEMNET

'Did you know that women's rights organisations, movements, and institutions get just 0.34% of total global aid flows? This is actually down from the 0.42% they received in 2020.' Listen to Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, a feminist activist on aid.

thenewhumanitarian.org/rethinking-hum…

This week!

The AfIP Collective is convening African Feminists to discuss the development of an African Feminist Manifesto on #FFP . The manifesto will guide advocacy towards feminist-informed approaches to foreign policy.
#FFP Africa

'In response to the surge in online anti-gender activism, I propose a robust counterattack on the prevailing narrative...As feminists, we must collectively take action' - Nyally (She/Her)
africanfeminism.com/social-media-a…

📣 New Publication Alert

We recently published a report that presents the findings of a Gender, Conflict, and Power Analysis study conducted in Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan.

The study describes the backdrop against which interventions on the Women, Peace, and

“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, Some of Us Have Not Died. Some of us did NOT die…And what shall we do, we who did not die?”

— June Jordan’s keynote lecture at Barnard College. November 9, 2001.

And then you must read Ama Ata Aidoo and Micere Mugo and Sylvia Tamale and Panashe Chigumadzi (deep engagement with Mbiti) because this Africa of ours belongs to women too- women who have fought, dreamt, theorised, sacrificed and make us think … deeper…

#afrifem

📢📢 Call for papers: Reclaiming Women’s Play: Gender, Wellbeing and the Changing African Play Cultures.
For more details, read: feministafrica.net/2024/04/17/cal…

Deadline for Abstracts: 30th June, 2024
Issue Editors: Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, Deborah Atobrah and Penelope Sanyu.

We are tired abeg! ✋🏾 We have heard these empty promises from World Bank before. In fact, it’s all we’ve heard!

Real solutions will not come from institutions. Lending money to governments deep in debts is not the solution. And what do you mean private sectors???

Real solutions