The Africa Social forum conducted an African Court of Women’s lives and livelihoods, which offered through testimony, expert analysis, poetic visuals, dance and drum, the situation of women in this violent globalised world. Rabia Abedelkrim from FAMES/ENDA, Senegal explained that the role of the judiciary was not to mimic the courts but to articulate new concepts in dispensing justice. “Testifiers were going to speak with their bodies,” she said.