The Axis of Repression: The Criminalisation of Democracy in East Africa
Democracy is on the decline in East Africa. The regional governments are increasingly treating democratic participation not as a constitutional right but as a...
Inside the African conference pushing for a continent-wide anti-LGBT charter
A red carpet, a dancing troupe and water-tight security – the kind usually reserved for high-level state events – welcomed attendees to the opening...
Can the Special Seats Bill deliver the gender parity Nigeria needs?
Hundreds of women rallied in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, on June 11, urging lawmakers to pass the Special Seats Bill (also known as the Reserved Seats...
Ghana’s queer movement is losing a fight it could be ‘winning’
In March, the international community watched as a resolution introduced by Ghana was adopted by the United Nations, declaring the transatlantic slave trade the “gravest crime against humanity.”...
Ugandan activists make the case for ecofeminism
Amid 1970s environmental threats of nuclear proliferation and pollution, the origin of the term “ecofeminism” is attributed to Françoise d’Eaubonne, a French feminist and ecologist who is said to...