Queen Nzinga of Angola is one of the most celebrated African women to resist European colonisation. Nzinga Mbande led four decades (1620s to 1660s) of warfare against the Portuguese in Angola. Her legacy is a controversial and paradoxical one, as she was a proto-nationalist resistance leader, a devout Christian and Portuguese ally, a superb but

In the AFF we embrace the concept of herstory as a way to rectify the absence of women and their contribution to our memory of historic turning points. Recording African women’s struggles and achievements in the struggle for their (and their communities’) liberation is one of the critical projects of African Feminism . The birth […]

La Reine Nzinga de l'Angola est l'un des plus célèbres femmes africaines pour résister à la colonisation européenne. Nzinga Mbande conduit quatre décennies (1620s aux années 1660) de la guerre contre les Portugais en Angola. Son héritage est controversée et paradoxale, comme elle était un chef de la résistance de proto-nationaliste, un dévot allié chrétien et portugais, un ...

2016年3月17日 · Wangari Muta Maathai is known as the first central or eastern African to hold a Ph.D., the first woman head of a university department in Kenya, and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for ‘her contribution to …

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2015年12月31日 · What is African Feminism? Many feminists from around the world have contested the idea of whether modern conceptions of feminism are African or un-African. Indeed, feminism has existed in Africa since the times of Queen Nzinga of what is now Mozambique and Yaa Asantewaa of Ghana. These women have inspired contemporary African feminists, who […]

Yaa Asantewaa was born in 1840 as the sister of the ruler of Ejisu (Ejisuhene), an ethnic group in present day Ghana. Asantewaa was appointed queen mother by her brother, Nana Akwasi Afrane Okpase, whose reign was volatile. At the time, the Gold Coast was under British protectorate.

Communément appelée la Reine guerrière, Reine Amina de Zaria était la première femme à devenir le Sarauniya (Reine) dans une société dominée par les hommes. Elle a élargi le territoire du peuple islandais d'Afrique du Nord à ses frontières plus grands dans l'histoire. Une grande partie de ce que l'on sait de la Reine Amina est basée sur l'information relie à la […]

Olufunmilayo Ransome-Kuti was born in 1900 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, to a seamstress and a small planter whose father had been an emancipated, baptized slave returnee from Sierra Leone. She received a Western education up to secondary school, before pursuing further education in England from 1919 to 1923. There she discovered socialism and anti-colonialism. When …

Throughout my life I have been inspired by Queen Pokou and Queen Djeumbeutt Mbodj. For me, they symbolise women’s empowerment because they demonstrated that a woman’s place is not only behind the stove. Each of them was able to lead kingdoms made up of men, women and children, and did so firmly and justly.