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African feminist, writer, and scholar Obioma Nnaemeka defines the term "Nego-feminism" in her article Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa's Way." She writes, "Nego-feminism is the feminism of negotiation; second, nego-feminism stands for 'no ego' feminism and is structured by cultural imperatives and modulated by ...
La Parole aux négresses is a founding book of Francophone African feminism by Awa Thiam published in 1978 with a foreword by Benoîte Groult.It is considered a founding essay of intersectionality exposing the specificity of black women's feminism in the feminist movement from a francophone point of view.
Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists is a document by the African Women's Development Fund that was formulated during a 2006 gathering of African women feminists across the world in Accra, Ghana, to create baseline principles to address key definitions of African feminism and patriarchy. [1] [2] [3]
Feminist Africa is a peer-reviewed academic journal that addresses feminist topics from an "African continental perspective". [1] It is published by the African Gender Institute (University of Cape Town). [2] Its founding editor-in-chief is Amina Mama (Mills College and University of California, Davis). [3]
Nnaemeka is interested in black women writers, feminist theory, transitional feminism, Francophone literatures, the oral and written works of Africans and the African diaspora, as well as gender and human rights [citation needed]. Gender-studies scholar Opportune Zongo wrote in 1996 that "[t]he power of Nnaemeka's work lies in her clear vision ...
Nwando Achebe // ⓘ (born 7 March 1970), is a Nigerian-American academic, academic administrator, feminist scholar and multi-award-winning historian. [1] She is the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History [2] and the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Social Science [3] at Michigan State University.
Crenshaw is known for introducing and developing intersectional theory to feminism. [8] Crenshaw noted that it was one of the "very few Black women's studies books". She used the title All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us are Brave, as her "point of departure" to "develop a Black feminist criticism". [9]: 139
Over the past decade, Africa registered the highest relative increase in primary education in total enrollment among regions. [47] Girls, however, were enrolled at lower rates. In 2000, Sub-Saharan Africa reported 23 million girls were not enrolled in primary school, an increase of 3 million from a decade earlier when 20 million were not enrolled.