The Nigerian professor, poet, critic, editor, activist and leading feminist thinker Molara Ogundipe has passed on at 78. She died on Tuesday, 18 June, in her home in Ijebu-Igbo, Ogun State, Nigeria. One of the most cited theorists in gender studies, she is best known for founding Stiwanism, a sub-movement of feminism. Articulated in her […]
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Chimamanda Adichie at The 2018 Abantu Book Festival
A few days ago, Adichie shared photos of her time at Abantu Book Festival on Facebook. On December 7, 2017, Chimamanda Adichie was in Johannesburg where she headlined the 2018 edition of the festival. The event was a live chat between her and author, scholar, and feminist Professor Pumla Dineo Gqola. As usual, they talked feminism. Adichie […]
Leila Aboulela’s New Novel, Bird Summons, Is Magic-infused and Folklore-inspired
Leila Aboulela is one Africa’s most beloved storytellers. Her readers can’t get enough of her evocative writing and the memorable characters that swarm her fictional world. Well, they are in luck. Aboulela has a new novel out. The novel is titled Bird Summons and was published in the UK on March 7 by Weidenfeld & […]
Chika Unigwe Calls Out Seun Kuti for Ignorant Comments on African Women and Feminism
The long struggle of Nigerian entertainers with gender expectations, and in particular what feminism actually is, is well documented. From WizKid threatening to send his 16-year-old cousin to beat up Linda Ikeji to Davido recently body-shaming (and apologizing to) a young woman who questioned his political motivations, from Omotola Jalade Ekeinde’s “I don’t believe God made […]
GoFundMe | Donate to Help Egyptian Writer and Feminist Icon Nawal El Saadawi Undergo Medical Care
The Egyptian writer and feminist icon Nawal El Sadaawi is ill. To foot her medical bills, a GoFundMe appeal was set up on February 13 to raise $20,000. So far, 76 people have responded with donations amounting to $4,780. The author, in Arabic and in English, of sixteen novels, fifteen nonfiction books, nine short story […]
PHOTOS | The Asmara Addis Literary Festival in Exile: a Pan-African Event for Feminism, Free Love, and Radical Ideas
The inaugural Asmara Addis Literary Festival in Exile was held from 8–10 February 2019, in Brussels, Belgium. Founded by Eritrean-Ethiopian novelist Sulaiman Addonia, author of The Consequences of Love (2009) and Silence Is My Mother Tongue (2018), the Festival is “a new pan-African literary event with feminist principles at its heart.” It was organized in collaboration with BOZAR, in […]
Who Is More Left Than the Other? Growing McCarthyism and Fatima Bhutto’s Unfair Criticism of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Tee Ngugi
A year ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie found herself in the eye of a Leftwing storm. In an interview about feminism, she had said that transgender women who used to be men did not suffer discrimination to the same extent that women did. Feminists and transgender women were furious. They attacked her for seeming to suggest […]
“We Men Are Destroying Ourselves, Destroying Women. It’s an Urgent Issue We Need to Change”: Congolese Novelist JJ Bola’s Facebook Video on International Men’s Day
Congolese novelist JJ Bola, author of No Place to Call Home, has a message for men. In a video posted on Facebook on International Men’s Day, November 20, he talked about the need for men to look after each other so as to stop the damage they inflict both on themselves and on women. His post […]
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