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Published in: 50.50The power of stories: raising the profile of African women’s cultural production
"I’m concerned about the fact that we download a lot about ourselves yet upload very little into mainstream media,...
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Published in: 50.50Litigating for equality in South Africa: Muslim marriages
While South Africa’s legal provisions around equality are some of the best in the world, do they adequately protect...
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Published in: 50.50HIV, homophobia and historical regression: where next for Uganda?
President Yoweri Museveni was once globally admired for mobilising an HIV response in Uganda founded upon compassion...
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Published in: 50.50HIV disclosure: changing ourselves, changing others
When will policy makers, politicians and academics start to think upstream, in order to change their own and their...
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Published in: 50.50Speaking the ‘unspeakable’ through film in Zimbabwe
From socially conscious film-making to challenging the invisibility of women in the industry, pioneering Zimbabwean...
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Published in: 50.50Desolation and despair in Libya: the murder of Salwa Bugaighis
Looking back, it feels as if Salwa Bugaighis embodied not the hopes and aspirations of the majority of her country's...
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Published in: 50.50Is that what we fought for? Gaddafi's legacy for Libyan women
Women played a largely unreported role in last year’s revolution in Libya. Now they have to fight both Islamist and...
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Published in: 50.50The return of tamed opposition in Egypt
Egypt's opposition parties are being co-opted or contained. In the foreseeable future, the most effective opposition...
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Published in: 50.50Rape, marriage, and rights
While the proliferation of domestic violence legislation worldwide is a positive and much-needed development, the...
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Published in: 50.50What we owe Nigeria’s kidnapped schoolgirls
People worldwide are calling for action to bring back the kidnapped schoolgirls in Nigeria. But concern for the...
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Published in: 50.50Women's voices in northern Nigeria: hearing the broader narratives
As the world's attention focuses on northern Nigeria with the abduction of schoolgirls from Chibok, Fatimah Kelleher...
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Published in: 50.50African feminist engagements with film
African feminist filmmakers and theorists reflect on the shifting roles of women working at all levels of the film...
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Published in: 50.50Meriam’s courage: facing death by hanging
Meriam Ibrahim Yahya is incarcerated and shackled in Sudan's Omdurman Women’s Prison. Her twenty month old child and...
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Published in: 50.50South Africa after Mandela: beyond the rainbow
South Africa is one of the world’s most unequal countries, home to a generation of disenchanted ‘born frees’. The...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria and Nigeria: sharing the deadweight of human mindlessness
Wole Soyinka believed that one of the best ways to comprehend the kind of horror that is happening in Nigeria is to...
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Published in: 50.50From Strongman to Superman: Sisi the saviour of Egypt
Egypt’s current political scene is marked by ’Sisi-mania’, as the new leader’s supporters scramble to snap up the...
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Published in: 50.50Sudanese university students demand a campus free of violence
In a courageous and unique act of collective action, students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan have gone on...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria post-election: The democratic struggle continues
Steadfast in the face of a witch-hunt and physical attacks against their members, the Barakat citizen's movement...
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Published in: 50.50Algeria: voices for democratic transition cannot be silenced
In the six weeks since the citizens Barakat movement for a free and democratic Algeria was founded it has moved from...
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Published in: 50.50The birth of the Barakat movement in Algeria: Every generation needs hope
Normal 0 "The government did not expect there would be such a vigilant civil society. They thought we were dead, but...