Welcome to Feminist Africa 14.2010

This is a publication of the African Gender Institute and its Strengthening Gender & Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation (GWS Africa) Project.

For enquiries, please e-mail us at agi-feministafrica@uct.ac.za

About Feminist Africa

Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent. By prioritising intellectual rigor, the journal seeks to challenge the technocratic fragmentation resulting from donor-driven and narrowly developmentalist work on gender in Africa. It also encourages innovation in terms of style and subject-matter as well as design and lay-out. It promotes dialogue by stimulating experimentation as well as new ways of engaging with text for readers.

A commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa will shape a strongly continental focus for the journal's subject-matter, design and mode of distribution. Issues will confront linkages between different African regions, nation-states and social identities, and register the unique challenges facing a continent with a shared history of exploitation and marginalisation. At the same time, the journal acknowledges that Africa's myriad social and cultural processes are inextricably linked to global processes.


Acknowledgment of funders

This Issue was made possible with the support from Ford Foundation, and HIVOS. We also thank all the scholars and activisits who invest their intellectual energy and time in the writing, peer reviewing and editing of Feminist Africa.

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Feminist Africa Editorial Team and Editorial Advisory Group Members 2009

Awino Okech, Dzodzi Tsikata, Ruth Ochieng, Fareeda Jadwat, Amina Mama, Felix Liersch and Jane Bennett