Gender Differentials in Criminal Behaviour in Nigeria

The relationship between gender and crime is intense and persistent. Both women and men commit and are victims of crime, but their perspectives, understanding, and interpretation of the crime are…

Between Knowing and Imagining: What Space for Feminism in Scholarship on Africa?

What does it mean to talk about the relationship between knowing and imagining? More than any apparently external frontier, it is the capacity to go beyond what is given, to fantasise, to create ne…

Collective Change: The Value of Mobilizing Local Resources for Women's Rights…

The case studies provide an in-depth look at the experiences of ten women's funds with local resource mobilization. Each case study details the strategies, challenges, lessons learned, and opportun…

Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs of Adolescent Girls and Young Women in S…

Seventeen articles make up this special collection, covering a range of different, but cross-cutting themes. These highlight contemporary concerns in African research and scholarship about the fact…

Local Human Development in Contexts of Permanent Crisis: Women’s Experience…

Sahrawi women are active agents in the social dynamics of the refugee camps, in which they have developed a number of coping strategies to overcome the hardships of a deteriorating humanitarian si…

PUT THE POWER IN HER HANDS: A Communication Toolkit on Reproductive Health, R…

""Women’s funds and nonprofit organizations are doing important work in reproductive health, rights and justice (RH/ RR/RJ). To fulfill their missions, they need to make an effective case to…

Birth Control, Contraception and Women's Rights in SA: A Cape Town Case Study

Access to safe birth control methods and knowledge about their effectivity and disadvantages are basic prerequisites for the liberation of women. But the propagation of contraceptive services in So…

Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way

In 1999, I was invited to speak at an international conference organized by the “Women Waging Peace Project” at Harvard University’s Kennedy School that attracted participants from some of th…

Between Modernism and Heritage

In this study we have chosen to look at the application of parallel legal systems in terms of dealing with violence against women in just a limited number of communities, within the massive Oromo…

Promoting OERs and Local Content in Africa to highlight Women’s Role in Pea…

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