Editor’s Note: A battle worth fighting
In 2003, the African Union’s Maputo Protocol set out an ambitious framework for policies that...
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Category: AIF Issue 48
Challenges and gaps, but many gains
The African Union’ s Maputo Protocol provides member states with a comprehensive policy framework...
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Women farmers join agricultural value chains
Women are the backbone of agricultural and rural economies in Africa, yet are often deprived of...
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West African boardrooms and the gender gap
Women make up almost exactly half the population of the region, but you’d never say so based on...
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Kenya’s women fight back
Female activists and politicians in Kenya say misogyny and violence against women are an all-too...
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Lionesses need historians more than fish need bicycles
The African story abounds with great women whose achievements are often reduced to prurient...
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Africa’s women in full flight
African women are world leaders when it comes to taking top jobs in the aviation industry In...
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A material difference
Entrenched family values and practices appear to play an important role in perpetuating...
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Challenging the patriarchy
Mama Rahma: profile of an African feminist Child bride at 13 and a victim of female genital...
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An appetite for hard work
In the face of soaring unemployment, women informal traders in one South African provincial...
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Battling to stay afloat
The struggle for water in Malawi’s drought-stricken eastern region has hit women the hardest,...
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Woman on a mission
How a chief in Malawi is changing hearts and minds about the damaging practice of early marriage...
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