Written Resources

By Sodfa Daaji   ABSTRACT The freedom of movement of people, capital, goods, and services is at the core of the African continental and regional integration agendas. This is enshrined in several protocols and legal frameworks such as the Niamey convention on cross-border cooperation and the Protocol to the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community. […]

By Sodfa Daaji   EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It is no mystery that trade is a crucial area for women and that inclusive trade policies valuably contribute to advancing gender equality and women’s economic empowerment. In the context of the African continent, the African Free Trade Area Agreement marked a milestone that defined Africa’s trade going forward. […]

By Elizabeth Maina   INTRODUCTION Over the last few years, the creative economy has been highlighted by stakeholders such as creative practitioners, national arts councils, donors and private sector partners as critical for the socio-economic development of developed and developing countries. Creativity, knowledge and access to information are increasingly recognized as powerful engines driving economic […]

By Njoki Ngumi   INTRODUCTION Agriculture is by far the biggest sector employer in the African Continent. An Economic Brief from the African Development Bank in 2017 revealed that up to 70 per cent of the workforce, directly supports 90 per cent of the livelihoods, and accounting for up to a quarter of the continent’s […]

By Fatimah Kelleher   INTRODUCTION The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is founded on a pan-African premise, more specifically as one of the flagship projects of the African Unions’ (AU’s) Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, which proposes a vision of an “integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa”. This further draws on the principles of […]

By Wangari Kinoti   METHODOLOGY This paper has been compiled from desk research of available literature on the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the gendered impacts of global trade liberalisation and the state of public services in Africa. Insights gained from various discussions at the African Business and Human Rights Forum held in Accra […]

By Chenai Mukumba ABSTRACT This paper discusses the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) through a feminist lens. It begins by introducing tax justice and highlighting the importance of the topic from a feminist lens. It then looks at the AfCFTA and presents a discussion on the linkage between tax justice and the AfCFTA with […]

By Sonia Phalatse ABSTRACT This paper draws on a feminist political ecology framework to unpack the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) and its implications for extractivism in Africa. Feminist Political Ecology (FPE) is an analytical framework that argues that gender, in relation to class, race, and other axes of power, shapes access to, and […]

This is a project of the Nawi Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective. The materials in this anthology were collected and collaged by Agazit Abate and Nebila Abdulmelik and designed by Nzilani Simu with the support of Agazit and Nebila. A central character in the creation of this anthology is Crystal Simeoni. A magic maker, she asks, “what […]

This is the type of story you tell over coffee. The type of story that comes with a snack, so distant, so strange, that the telling seems absurd. This is the type of story that is hard to write because it is hard to imagine. It almost feels silly writing a story like this. This […]