Thanks to my parents I was nurtured into activism from a tender age just watching them speak and act out against social injustice in simple, everyday situations. They would persist even when it meant standing alone. I developed a consciousness about “justice”, even when the issues were ones I did not necessarily ag...
I attended the Associateship Programme at the African Gender Institute from May to August 2002. At that time I was at crossroads in my professional career. A few months earlier, I had completed an MPhil in Environmental Science at the University of Ghana, Legon. Around the same time too, I was a team member on the Women’s Health in the Ci...
Elinor Sisulu is a writer, human rights activist and political analyst. She was born in Harare, Zimbabwe in March 1958 and grew up mostly in Bulawayo.She combines training in history, English literature, development studies and feminist theory. She completed her first two degrees at the University of Zimbabwe and studied at the...
My doctoral training is in Linguistics – the Syntax of the English Language, and this forms a key part of what I teach, as a Senior Lecturer, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Other areas of teaching and research at graduate level in which I am involved include Gender and Society; Critical discourse analysis;Variationist stud...
I have been teaching at the Department of Sociology, Usmanu Dan Fodiyo University, Sokoto since 1986. Since then, I have been involved in research and teaching on gender issues at local, national and international levels. I have secured some research funding on women and health, women and decision making and women and religion, women and...
I was born in Kenya 45 years ago and am currently resident in Harare, Zimbabwe. Having successfully completed the Kenya Advanced Certificate of Education (A’ Levels) at Matuga High School, Kwale District, Coast Province, Kenya, I was recruited at the Africa Press Service, first as a subscription officer and then trained in reporting and j...
