African Feminism (AF)

Something changes when a woman occupies an office men have treated as their natural inheritance. Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri’s appointment on 29 September 2026 makes that change visible in Morocco. For women...

Feminist spaces are not toxic. Feminism is not toxic. Accountability is not toxic.

So, what is?

This began as my rage, but now it is my love letter to the movement.

A call to do better. To be better. To build spaces worthy of the feminism we claim.

This piece is born from my rage. From the nights I spent questioning whether I was too sensitive, too...

I was just 17 years old, in a WhatsApp group with peers discussing sexual and gender-based violence when I first heard that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was violence. I remember being agitated by the turn the discussion took. Though much of that conversation is murky now, I remember repeating the same lines: ‘FGM is culture; if we can advocate for abortion, then surely ...

I recently had a conversation with an acquaintance who had applied for activist welfare support after the floods in Accra, Ghana this June destroyed much of what they owned. Their appliances, gadgets and other belongings were gone or damaged, rent was still due, and they had the very reasonable fear that the rains could return and the next flood could be worse. They work full...

“Portuguese-speaking Africa is not on the margins of Africa’s feminist movement. It is an essential part of it.”

Across Africa, feminist movements have long challenged systems of inequality, responded to crises, created new possibilities for minoritized and excluded communities. Philanthropy has been integral to advances toward just and equal African societies. ...