Africa: Women Deliver Prepares for Re-imagined and Global Gender Justice with Feminist Playbook

Africa: Gender Equity a Strategic Imperative for Africa’s Growth

The West African Institute for Financial and Economic Management (WAIFEM) has declared that gender equity is not just a question of fairness but a strategic imperative for Africa’s long-term growth, innovation, and institutional resilience. The declaration came at the opening of a five-day regional workshop on “Women in Leadership: Understanding Gender Dynamics in the Workplace,”…

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Africa: Women Deliver Prepares for Re-imagined and Global Gender Justice with Feminist Playbook

Africa: Performative Democracy and Gender Equity in Ghana

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It offers debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books. It is edited and managed by the…

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Africa: Women Deliver Prepares for Re-imagined and Global Gender Justice with Feminist Playbook

Africa: Banks Embed Climate Risk, Gender and Sustainability in Finance Products

Nairobi — Ahead of the Conference of the Parties (COP30), the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) in Addis Ababa is looking to mobilize billions for renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, green housing, and gender-focused financing. As climate shocks intensify across East Africa, from failed rains in Kenya’s arid north to devastating floods in Tanzania’s coastal belt,…

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Africa: Women Deliver Prepares for Re-imagined and Global Gender Justice with Feminist Playbook

Africa: Renegotiating Patriarchy – Women’s Assets and Shifting Gender Roles During the Sudan War

The Sudan War series is a joint collaboration between the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation – Khartoum (CEDEJ-K), Sudan-Norway Academic Cooperation (SNAC) and African Arguments – Debating Ideas. Through a number of themes that explore the intersections of war, displacement, identities and capital, Sudanese researchers, many of whom are themselves displaced,…

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Africa: Women Deliver Prepares for Re-imagined and Global Gender Justice with Feminist Playbook

African Developers, Lawmakers and Civil Society Are Partnering With Women to Embed Safety Into Digital Platforms From the Ground Up, With the Aim of Preventing Tech-Driven Gender Violence Before It Begins.

Global Voices Advox This statement was originally published on globalvoices.org on 1 August 2025. ‘Technology-facilitated gender-based violence isn’t a side effect of digital growth. It’s the price women pay for being online.’ In early 2025, researchers tracking African elections uncovered a wave of AI-generated deepfake videos targeting women journalists and female candidates in Ghana, Senegal,…

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Africa: Women Deliver Prepares for Re-imagined and Global Gender Justice with Feminist Playbook

Africa: World Bank Report Highlights Gender Dynamics and Opportunities in Botswana

GABORONE, July 15, 2025-The World Bank has released a comprehensive report, “Trends and Opportunities to Advance Gender Equality in Botswana“, analyzing gender dynamics across life-cycle stages to guide policymakers, the civil society, and development partners on key challenges and opportunities for advancing gender equality. It reveals how structural barriers in education access, financial inclusion, and…

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Africa: Women Deliver Prepares for Re-imagined and Global Gender Justice with Feminist Playbook

Africa: Afrishela Fund’s Alternative Credit Assessment – Another Promising Approach to Narrowing the Gender Financing Gap

Insights from the World Bank GROW Expo Despite women contributing nearly 40% of Africa’s GDP, they receive less than 7% of private equity and venture capital funding–and only a fraction of that reaches women-led SMEs. At the recent World Bank’s GROW Expo in Uganda, the Graça Machel Trust’s Afrishela Fund challenged this disparity with a…

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