Join Us For The Launch of Three New Briefs on Building Community Power in Philanthropy in West Africa Dear friend, On Friday, July 11th, Liberation Alliance Africa will launch three new briefs as part of a compendium on building community power in philanthropy in West Africa. These briefs examine how giving has been shaped by …
Africa Liberation Day is a moment not just of remembrance, but of reckoning. While flags were raised and colonial powers retreated, the work of liberation is far from complete. Our ancestors did not fight for symbolism, they fought for dignity, land, self-determination, justice, and the right to thrive. Their visions remain with us, not as …
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A lineup of white men swooping into the African continent to lecture us on African values — if this isn’t imperialism striding boldly among us, then pray, what is it? Currently underway in Wangari Maathai’s beloved homeland — the birthplace of Muthoni Kirima and Dedan Kimathi — is the so-called “Pan-African Conference on Family Values.” …
Zainab Monisola Olaitan When we think of gender quotas, we are instinctively forced to think about how they help to increase the number of marginalised groups in certain spaces or, for a more gloomy look, how they are used to select unqualified people into certain spaces. These myopic and misguided thoughts are part of why …
“Our stories flow beyond borders, even when politics tries to keep us apart.” With these words, Rosebell Kagumire reminded us of the power of storytelling as a tool for resistance, communion, and liberation. Stories transcend artificial boundaries, challenge dominant narratives, and reclaim the knowledge systems that colonial histories have sought to erase. It is in …
I recently read a poem that described hope as a feather that perches on the soul, sings a tune and never stops. Hope is a global phenomenon that enjoys many definitions and iterations, but what does it mean to lock into the radical, action-oriented, love-directed concept of revolutionary hope? To hope is to have agency, …
This article highlights the need for a shift in mindset in how society homogenizes women and centralizes the issues that affect them as if they are one and the same.
Feminism which is simply the belief in the equality of sexes and a movement for the advancement of women’s rights has been subject to different perceptions. How does a movement with a clear and equality-focused tenet become subject to different perceptions?
To be radically alive is to be hopeful — but to hope, one must acknowledge, interrogate and dream. Even though coloniality continues to shape Africa’s systems and structures, while the global north continues to thrive on the inferiorisation of how we learn and live, we are doubling down on revolutionary hope. In April of 2023, …
The GFCF #ShiftThePower global summit took place at the Agora Center in Bogota in December 2023. The global summit served as a platform for creating “good collisions” and establishing connections among individuals shaping people-centred practices. These practices are driven from the grassroots, and the summit also brought together those leading experiments and efforts to shift …
Weaving Liberatory Actions: Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit Read More »
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