About the African Gender Institute
The African Gender Institute (AGI) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, was established in 1996, through the support of the then-Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Mamphela Ramphele. The goal of the Institute was to strengthen African-based researchers’, writers’, and scholars’ understanding of gender analysis and its importance to social transformation on the continent.
The AGI consists of an academic programme offering both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The Institute also runs a number of projects funded by the International Development Research Centre and the Ford Foundation.
Some of the projects include:
- The Feminist Research Associates project -This project is made up of an intensive two-week capacity building programme for African-based researchers, with an interest in feminism, gender and sexuality. The aims of the programme are to stimulate strong, African-based, research which takes issues of sexuality and gender seriously and to support current African research initiatives through offering in-depth opportunity to develop conceptual and methodological tools for African feminist writers and researchers relatively new to issues of sexuality.
- The Feminist Africa Journal –This journal is a continental gender studies journal produced by a community of feminist scholars. Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent.
- Strengthening Gender and Women’s Studies for Africa’s Transformation (GWS Africa) Project
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