This is the recording of a seminar on Feminist Protests in Africa organized as part of the Centre of Centre of African Studies Seminars.
It is based on the speakers and chairs’ recent symposium on the same topic published in the journal Politics & Gender provides often-excluded accounts of past and contemporary feminist protests in Africa.
It has centred on the roles of African feminists and how they formulated their liberatory demands.
In the context of increasing anti-gender backlash, these feminist struggles are often met with repression and even murders.
Drawing on a range of experiences from different countries, the five essays on Kenya, South Africa, Senegal, Sudan and Cameroon demonstrate how Africa is an important site with feminists shaping knowledge-making and praxis in the longue durée through their struggles.