African Feminist Forum

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The African Feminist Forum (AFF) is a biennial conference that brings together African feminist activists to deliberate on issues of key concern to the feminist movement.[1] It was developed out of the growing concern amongst feminists on the continent, that the efforts to advance the rights of women on the continent were under serious threat from a number of sources. It took place for the first time in November 2006 in Accra, Ghana, and has subsequently convened in Uganda (2008), Senegal (2010)[2] and in Harare, Zimbabwe (2016).[3][4]

The African Feminist Forum Program[]

The African Feminist Forum program is organised along clusters which reflect the concerns and priorities of African feminists. Each cluster has two or three Coordinators. The clusters are as follows:

  • Crafting an African Feminist Epistemology
  • Feminist Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive health and rights in Africa
  • African Feminism: political and economic power; resisting fundamentalisms
  • Intersecting-Generations
  • Feminist Creative Expression
  • African Women’s Movements: organizations, structures and capacities
  • Confronting violation in women’s lives
  • Global Feminism and the UN System

Members[]

References[]

  1. ^ Tomupeishe Maphosa (16 April 2013). "African Feminists" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2013.[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ Jessica Horn, "Tales of the lionesses: the third African Feminist Forum", openDemocracy, 20 October 2010.
  3. ^ "4th African Feminist Forum: Voice, Power and Soul, Harare, Zimbabwe April 9-12, 2016", AWDF.
  4. ^ "About", African Feminist Forum.
  5. ^ "Doo Aphane". Initiative for Strategic Legislation in Africa. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Jessica Horn". African Feminist Forum (in French). 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  7. ^ "Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi". African Feminist Forum (in French). 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2017-11-30.
  8. ^ "Everjoice Win". African Feminist Forum (in French). 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2018-01-02.
  9. ^ "Mary Wandia". African Feminist Forum (in French). 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2018-01-02.

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