Africa's Feminist Thinkers | Introduction

Please note that these pages are in development and feedback is welcome

The AGI and GWSAfrica workers are in the process of developing exciting new web pages that will be dedicated to promoting, celebrating and sharing the writing of Africa's feminist thinkers, gender scholars, researchers, and activists.

We recognise the pressing need to build a resource in which we can both celebrate and draw on the decades of articles, papers, presentations, and creative writings of all those whose thinking inspires and challenge us. 

Despite the remarkable growth of gender and women's studies in Africa over the last 3 decades, and the intellectual importance of this work, in 2006 it is still difficult to find African feminist work in libraries and resource rooms, let alone to gather together work by any particular writer. This situation makes it difficult to develop a sense of the historical, intellectual and creative ingenuity of African ideas and analyses, the development of theories, and the manner in which each individual writer has grown, developed, and influenced our thinking.

This website seeks to address this reality by collecting writing by Africa's feminist and gender scholars, researchers, and activists and to post their profiles and their work to make feminist knowledge from Africa widely available to the world.

To be part of this new initiative, write to us and send in a short profile of your intellectual development, accompanied by a selection of the publications you would like to see posted on this website. [click here for full details] Please join us in making this a truly collective action to challenge the under-representation of African women as scholars, thinkers, writers and activists on the global publishing landscape!

We look forward to seeing your pages up there!

Please note: The African Gender Institute recognises that these pages are a work in progress and in no way represents the full body of Africa's Feminist Scholars.

The African Gender Institute also does not accept responsibility for the content contained in these pages. Intellectual ownership resides with the authors.