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Launch Issue: Feminist Africa (FA) - http://www.feministafrica.org [3]
Title: Intellectual Politics
Theme: Feminist Perspectives on African Higher Education
The launch issue maps current features of the African Higher Education landscape, and analyses the persistence of systemic gender inequality in the African higher education landscape. Contributions document some of the main institutional reform strategies that have been deployed to address the persistence and, indeed, the reproduction of gender subordination in higher education, and subject the sector to a critical feminist analysis. By making reference to concrete examples, the issue also looks at why and how gender studies (as an intellectual strategy) has developed in African contexts over the last two decades, and whether this has served the end of overcoming the patriarchal premises of universities or not. The issue goes on to deal with the global context that affects gender-based intellectual activism in terms of research, teaching and publishing.
About the Journal
Feminist Africa is a publication within the African Gender Institute’s GWS Africa project, which has grown out of the Institute’s many years of
commitment to capacity-building, research, networking and teaching in an environment in which market-oriented approaches now threaten to undermine progressive African gender initiatives.
FA provides a platform for cutting-edge, informative and provocative gender work attuned to African agendas. As the first journal on gender with a continental focus, Feminist Africa provides a forum for the publication and dissemination of high quality feminist scholarship African contexts. The journal promotes the incisive combination of intellectual rigour and political insight and accommodates contributions ranging from feature articles to short reports, interviews or journalistic writings. The emphasis is on generating African discourses on gendered implications of a range of African political, educational, cultural and historical concerns across the humanities and social sciences.
Editorial Policy
FA’s commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa will shape a strongly continental focus in philosophical orientation, content, design and mode of distribution. FA’s editorial policy acknowledges that Africa’s myriad social and cultural processes are inextricably linked to global processes. Particular issues will address the commonalities and differences prevailing across different African regions, nation-states and social identities, while remaining alert to the unique challenges facing a continent with a shared history of exploitation and marginalisation.
In making full use of the latest advances in ICTs, FA seeks to take advantage of their potential in the networking, capacity-building and research agendas of Africans committed to gender justice. FA therefore uses a twofold distribution strategy of circulation via the internet and in print, to ensure that gender researchers, activists, students, scholars and educators in Africa have access to articles and information irrespective, despite the digital divide.
For more information relating to the journal, please visit the website, http://www.feministafrica.org [3]