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Particular topics covered by the journal include: women's activism, sexism in higher education, militarism and peace, and gender-related violence. [5] [6] Patricia van der Spuy and Lindsay Clowes write that the publication of the journal marked an important step in the development of South African feminism. [7]
Africa Confidential; Africa Development; Africa Education Review; Africa Insight; Africa Media Review; Africa Renewal; Africa Research Bulletin; Africa Review of Books; Africa, Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche, successor of Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione; Africa Spectrum; Africa Today; Africa Update; Africa Week ...
In its early years, AAWORD was supported by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). [4] In 1977, 1983 and 1988 it held general assemblies in Dakar. In 1995 it held its general assembly in Pretoria, South Africa. [3] AAWORD sponsors regular conferences, and publishes occasional bilingual papers and ...
The African Women’s Development Fund (AWDF) is a feminist non-governmental organization that operates throughout Africa and the Middle East. The AWDF’s purpose is to secure funding from different types of donors to create grants, which are then used to support a variety of feminist causes and organizations throughout the region. [ 1 ]
This is a list of peer-reviewed, academic journals in the field of women's studies. Note: there are many important academic magazines that are not true peer-reviewed journals. They are not listed here.
The Journal of Social Development in Africa (JSDA) is a bi-annual subscription-based and peer-reviewed academic journal that began in 1986. The journal publishes original research and review articles that advance scholarship on social development issues in Africa - across various disciplines.
It has, for instance, produced a manual on taking women into account in budgeting in Africa that was chosen for a trial-run, [1] and participated in the drafting of the Women's Manifesto for Ghana. [8] ABANTU's series of Gender and Poverty Hearings in Eastern and Southern Africa have contributed to transparency of government policies. [3]
To date, the main information resources, published journals and journal articles available to and used by researchers, librarians and students in Africa are the same as those used in Europe and America. This is because information from the developed world is usually more readily available than that of developing countries.