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Wikis > African Feminist Forum

The African Feminist Forum is a biennial conference that brings together African feminist activists to deliberate on issues of  key concern to the movement. It was developed out of the growing concern amongst feminists on the continent, that the efforts to advance the rights of women on the continent were under serious threat from a number of sources.

Table of Contents

  • 1 Background
  • 2 The AFF Program
  • 3 Publications
  • 4 References

Background

A group of feminist activists decided to create an autonomous space for feminists from the continent to deliberate on issues impacting on women, as well as assessing and developing strategies to address the external challenges on the movement. The first forum took place in November 2006 in Accra, Ghana.

The AFF Program

The AFF program is organised along clusters which reflect the concerns and priorities of African feminists. Each cluster has two or three Coordinators. The clusters are as follows:

  • Crafting an African Feminist Epistemology
  • Feminist Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive health and rights in Africa
  • African Feminism: political and economic power; resisting fundamentalisms
  • Intersecting-Generations
  • Feminist Creative Expression
  • African Women’s Movements: organizations, structures and capacities
  • Confronting violation in women’s lives
  • Global Feminism and the UN System

Publications

  • Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists
  • Fundamentalism and Women’s Rights in Africa
  • Women’s Agency and The State: The Kenyan Experience

References

  • African Feminist Forum website

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