Abstract
Ayesha M. Imam looks at the development of the African Feminist Forum (AFF) in 2006 and subsequent national and pan-African Feminist Forums that followed. The AFF is an autonomous space for African feminists to reflect, reconnect and re-energize in order to strengthen African feminist visions, analyses, movements and campaigns and strategies in order so as to promote women's rights and transform African realities in socially just and emancipatory ways.
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With comments and suggestions from members of the African Feminist Forum Working Group: ‘Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Jessica Horn, Muthoni Wanyeki, Hope Chigudu, Sylvia Tamale, Bene Madunagu.
Including, for example, the racism of a recent US reader on international feminisms, whose editors, when asked why it did not include any work from African feminists, replied that there was no African theorizing on feminism – completely ignoring the work of (a few examples in alphabetical order) Bolanle Awe, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Jane Bennet, Codou Bop, Aminata Diaw, Shireen Essof, Rudo Gaidzanwa, Shirin Hassim, Jessica Horn, Ayesha Imam, Patricia MacFadden, Amina Mama, Marjorie Mbilinyi, Charmaine Pereira, Vasu Reddy, Hanan Sabea, Elaine Salo, Fatou Sow, Sylvia Tamale, Dzodzi Tsikata, and of such journals as Feminist Africa and Agenda among others.
http://www.awdf.org/pages/?pid=1&sid=62, accessed 8 March 2009.
The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa has specific provisions on the rights of women with disabilities.
References
Horn, Jessica (2008) ‘Feeding Freedom's Hunger: Reflections on the Second African Feminist Forum’, Feminist Africa 11.
Adeleye-Fayemi, Bisi (2006) ‘Background Document’: The African Feminist Forum’, www.africanfeministforum.org, accessed 8 March 2009.
Mukasa, Sarah (ed.) (2008) ‘Reclaiming Our Spaces – Executive Summary of the First African Forum’, http://www.africanfeministforum.org/v3/files/Reclaiming_our_%20Spaces_AFF.pdf, accessed 12 March 2009.
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Describes the growth of a dynamic space for thought, fun, critiques and solidarity by and for feminists across the continent
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Imam, A. Birthing and Growing the African Feminist Forum. Development 52, 167–174 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2009.24
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