| Discipline | gender studies, African studies |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Dzodzi Tsikata, Akosua K. Darkwah, Asanda Benya, Charmaine Pereira, Coumba Touré, Lyn Ossome, and Sandra Manuel |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2002–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Three times a year |
| Yes | |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Fem. Afr. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1726-4596 |
| OCLC no. | 53869360 |
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Feminist Africa is a peer-reviewed academic journal produced by a community of scholars and activists from Africa and the diaspora. In a world that is lopsided and where knowledge is a political force that deepens divisions, determines inequalities and reinforces oppressions, the journal provides a cutting-edge platform designed for intellectual and activist research, dialogue and strategy for postcolonial feminism.
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As one of the founding editors, Amina Mama (Mills College and University of California, Davis). [1] declared in the editorial of the inaugural issue:
Feminist Africa responds to the heightened salience of gender in African political and intellectual landscapes. It provides a forum for the intellectual activism that has always been as intrinsic to feminism in Africa as to feminisms anywhere else. It provides the first continental platform for reflecting on the accumulated wisdom which has matured in the cauldron of postcolonial gender contradictions… The triumphalist rhetoric of globalisation, the re-marginalisation of women in the new African Union, not to mention the ongoing salience of poverty and outbreaks of conflict, civil and militarism, are all deeply gendered phenomena that demand incisive analysis and response. [2]
The journal is published three times a year and is fully open access, representing one of the numerous efforts to tackle the enduring problem of bibliometric coloniality wherein systems of academic indexing and knowledge production are dominated by Western ideas and works. Feminist Africa is available both online and in print and has become one of the key pillars for Gender Studies on the continent and beyond. At the heart of the journal is the commitment to transformational change through ideals such as inclusivity, equity, accountability, consultation and empowerment.
