Invitation to Submit work for the AGI’s GWS Africa Website.

The AGI is soliciting written work from gender researchers, students, activists and NGO workers for a new website aimed at capacity-building and networking among African gender researchers and scholars, the Transforming Women and Gender Studies for Africa’s Transformation (GWS Africa) Project. We are inviting contributions of essays, reviews or opinion pieces that focus on gender in Africa and that bring gender analysis to bear on diverse African experiences.

(Note: We are especially keen to publish work by students who do not often have the opportunities to share their work with a wide audience. This would include both students specialising in women and gender studies and students who have worked on gender within other disciplines).

Among the written forms we would like to publish are:

Reviews or Reports – of conferences, workshops, gender initiatives and projects or cultural events. Reviews should be between 1500 and 2500 words in length, and should clearly focus on events aimed at redressing gender iniquities. Reviews and reports should not simply be factual; they should be analytical in orientation and demonstrate the relevance of the investigated subject to other students, activists or researchers in the field of gender research and advocacy.

Essays (between 3000 and 5000 words) on various issues related to the gendered implications of African society, culture, history and politics.

Interviews (between 1500 and 2500 words) conducted with key gender activists, writers or scholars. Interviews, which should be engaging and provocative, would raise insights and experiences of relevance to other students, researchers and activists.

Note: Because the project seeks to disseminate various forms of knowledge production, we hope you will take this opportunity to send us forms that do not neatly fit into conventional categories of academic writing.

Fields

We are interested in work that applies gender analysis to a range of African experiences. The following fields are examples:

• Women in Politics/ Women’s Organisations
• Women’s Creative and Fictional Expression
• Gender-Based Violence
• Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity.
• Theories and Identities in Africa.
• African Women’s History/Writing African Women into History
• Gender and Health
• Gender and Education
• Religion and Gender
• Gender, Law and Policy-Making

Submissions

The selection of submitted work will be based on:

• the relevance of the topic explored to other researchers, students or activists;
• the extent to which the submitted work contributes to advancing gender justice in Africa and/or to existing gender research on the continent;
• the clarity, persuasiveness or innovativeness of ideas and arguments.

NOTE: Since the AGI does not have the capacity to assist contributors with the conceptualisation or writing of projects, submitted work should take the form of thoroughly-revised projects that are ready for final editing.

DISCLAIMER: Final editorial control and discretion in selecting and editing content rests with the African Gender Institute. The AGI cannot guarantee that all submissions will be published.

Please submit work to:

info@gwsafrica.org