KENYAN PHOTOGRAPHER'S PARISIAN SHOW STANDS OUT BY BLENDING IN
Thandiwe Muriu’s CAMO series celebrates being African by playing with colour and culture KENYAN photographer Thandiwe Muriu’s journey...
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Aug 9, 20211 min read
ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER
As Africa’s first democratically-elected woman president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf led Liberia through reconciliation and recovery following...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
AFRICA: REFLECTING ON THE NEEDS OF AFRICA'S WORKING MOTHERS
Balancing work and family obligations has long been a reality for women. In the past year however, the COVID-19 pandemic has upset this...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK 2021 ANNUAL MEETINGS - BUILDING RESILIENT ECONOMIES IN POST-COVID-19 AFRICA
Women and gender-focused policies have a pivotal role in African recovery programs following the Covid-19 pandemic, affirm some of the...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
LANDMARK GENDER EQUALITY FORUM CONCLUDES WITH CONCRETE COMMITMENTS, PLAN TO ADVANCE PARITY BY 2026.
Close to $40 billion was pledged in new investments, as well as ambitious policy and programme commitments from governments, civil...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
KENYA'S FIRST FEMALE BOSS OF PRISONS TAPPED TO LEAD TRAINING INITIATIVE
Wanini Kireri is changing the leadership landscape in the Kenya's prison system. Kireri oversees both men's and women's prisons across...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
FEMALE ENGINEERS BEHIND GHANA'S SOLAR CARS
A team of female engineering graduates is aiming to overcome gender barriers in Ghana’s male-dominated automobile industry. Belinda,...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
GENERATION EQUALITY AND THE AFRICA WE WANT FOR NAMIBIA
For everyone to benefit, gender equality must be extended to all sectors of society, says Namibia’s Prime Minister, Saara...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
TUNISIA’S JABEUR FIRST ARAB WOMAN TO REACH WIMBLEDON’S LAST-16
Trailblazing Tunisian Ons Jabeur has become the first Arab woman to reach the last-16 at Wimbledon. The 26-year-old tennis player showed...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
SOMALIA'S ONLY FEMALE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SAYS ITS TIME FOR WOMEN TO LEAD
Somalia's top leaders, all men, have struggled for years to tame the Horn of Africa nation's insecurity and corruption. Lawmaker Fawzia...
Aug 9, 20211 min read
HUNDREDS OF WOMEN, GIRLS BRUTALIZED BY SOLDIERS IN TIGRAY WAR .
Soldiers came to their homes and demanded to know the whereabouts of their husbands, fathers or brothers, insisting the men were fighters...
Jul 29, 20211 min read
OBITUARY: TRIBUTES POUR IN FOR SOUTH AFRICAN ICON SHALEEN SURTIE-RICHARDS
Veteran actress Shaleen Surtie-Richards paved the way for actors in post-apartheid South Africa and bought smiles to millions of viewers,...
Jul 29, 20211 min read
8th GENDER & WOMEN'S STUDIES 2021 (GWS2021)
Best Event in Gender & Women's Studies International Conference on Gender & Women's Studies 2021 (GWS2021) which will be held on 29-30...
Jul 29, 20211 min read
RECLAIM: NARRATIVES OF AFRICAN WOMEN ARTISTS
Within the framework of the africa2020 season, in partnership with the école du louvre 13.04.2021 - 16.04.2021. This symposium occurs in...
Jul 4, 20211 min read
HISTORY: ‘UNRULY’ AFRICAN WOMEN WHO MADE THEIR MARK ON THE CONTINENT
From the 1930s onwards, several African women who were ahead of their time made their mark in a fiercely male-dominated society. In her...
Jul 4, 20211 min read
NIGERIAN FASHION PIONEER FOLASHADE 'SHADE' THOMAS WILL BE CELEBRATED AT 'AFRICA FASHION' EXHIBITION
She's been called one of Africa's most important designers, and a pioneering figure in Nigerian fashion.Now, Folashade "Shade"...
Jul 4, 20211 min read
ZIMBABWEAN TSITSI DANGAREMBGA AWARDED PEN PINTER PRIZE 2021
The Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, filmmaker and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga was announced as the winner of the prestigious PEN Pinter...
Jul 4, 20211 min read
CHILD MARRIAGE AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: WHAT WE FOUND IN 16 AFRICAN COUNTRIES
The number of girls who marry before their 15th birthday has remained unchanged for 20 years in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The...
Jul 4, 20211 min read
TIME TO PROTECT EDUCATION FOR ADOLESCENT MOTHERS ACROSS AFRICA - AFRICAN UNION SHOULD DEVELOP MODEL
"Ruhiyyeh" (not her real name), from Senegal, was 17 when Human Rights Watch spoke to her in 2017 about her experience of continuing...
Jul 4, 20211 min read
DAY OF THE AFRICAN CHILD 2021
The theme for the Day of the African Child (DAC) 2021 is “30 years after the adoption of the Charter: accelerate the implementation of...
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