Gender & Minorities

 “When there is no school, my family keeps me at home and it’s like a jail. I have been depressed for a very long time now, but they would not allow me to seek help,” explains Hagar (not her real name), a 23-year old student of literature and philosophy from Cairo University.

Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, 73, was last week the subject of an unprecedented public rebuke from his own wife.

LAGOS, 16^TH OCTOBER 2016 - The Nigeria Feminist Forum and its partners totally reject and condemn in strong terms the comments made by Nigeria’s President Mohammad Buhari on Friday 14 October 2016 in response to his wife’s interview on Hausa Service of the British Broadcasting Corp

Muhammadu Buhari, head of the Nigeria genocidist regime, was in Germany last week on a three-day “state” visit.

A dominant narrative in the United States persists that if Black people would take personal responsibility and work hard, we could achieve gains similar to those of our white counterparts.

Nominating a “Racist of the Year” may seem like a strange thing to do.

This is the season for gay pride parades. Some have already been held in Uganda, Germany and Denmark among other places. This also marks the beginning of the annual criticism of the lack of equal rights particularly in Africa.

To collectively realise the inherent value of black life we must think locally and globally, symbolically and institutionally. One realm to address these concerns in is that of environmental racism.

During July 1960 a historic gathering of African women from throughout the continent and Diaspora took place in Accra, Ghana. This West African state had been liberated from British colonialism just three years before under the leadership of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) headed by Dr.

Women everywhere were angered by a viral video showing four armed policemen surrounding a woman sitting on a beach in Nice, making her remove her long-sleeved outer shirt and scarf.  This scene, calling to mind other violations and humiliations women endure daily, was made no less ugly by th