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Brief Three: Epistemic Sovereignty in Sexual Violence Prevention and Response

COMING SOON Brief 3 is coming soon. You will be notified as soon as it is available.

Brief Two: Coloniality of Sexual Violence: Gender, Power, Sovereignty and the Neo-Colonial State

The brief traces the coloniality of gender as a theoretical foundation, it examines the political economy of the gendered postcolonial...

Brief 1: Social Reproduction, Political Economy and Militarisation of Sexual Violence in Africa

The brief develops a social reproduction analysis of how neocolonial economic relationships displace the costs of capitalism onto women’s bodies...

Recentering African Feminist Epistemologies: A Community of Practice to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence

Originally published on the African Feminism Platform

Disrupting Colonial Legacies of Philanthropy in Africa

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/disrupting-colonial-legacies-of-philanthropy-in-africa/

Decolonising Efforts in Philanthropy: Experience Weaving

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/decolonising-efforts-in-philanthropy-experience-weaving/

Reclaiming Agency: Dreaming of a Decolonial Feminist Philanthropy in West Africa

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/reclaiming-agency-dreaming-of-a-decolonial-feminist-philanthropy-in-west-africa/

Recentering African Indigenous Knowledge to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/recentering-african-indigenous-knowledge-to-prevent-and-respond-to-sexual-violence/

Innovation From Our Roots

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/innovation-from-our-roots-2025-sawaba-fellowship-project/

Feminist Church: A Radical Experiment of Gathering and Practices of Liberation

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/feminist-church-a-radical-experiment-of-gathering-and-practices-of-liberation/

The Ubiquitous Maggi Cube: Exploring Coloniality Through Cuisine

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/the-ubiquitous-maggi-cube-exploring-coloniality-through-cuisine-2025-sawaba-fellowship-project/

Weaving Liberatory Actions: Reflections from the ShiftThePower Global Summit

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/weaving-liberatory-actions-reflections-from-the-shiftthepower-global-summit/

The African Values Agenda of the West is a Tool for Continued Colonialism. We are Not Fooled

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/the-african-values-agenda-of-the-west-is-a-tool-for-continued-colonialism-we-are-not-fooled/

6 Ancestral Calls To Action For Africa’s Liberation

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/6-ancestral-calls-to-action-for-africas-liberation/

Building a Community of Practice that Translates Concerns into Action

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/a-community-of-practice-harmonising-the-work-translating-concerns-into-action/

Perceptions of Feminism in the Digital Space: Why is Feminism Negatively Perceived in an Increasingly Digital World?

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/perceptions-of-feminism-in-the-digital-space-why-is-feminism-negatively-perceived-in-an-increasingly-digital-world/

A Modern Take on the Relevance of Gender Quotas for Substantive Women’s Representation in African Politics

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/a-modern-take-on-the-relevance-of-gender-quotas-for-substantive-womens-representation-in-african-politics/

Glamourized Militarism and Africa’s Elusive Liberation

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/glamourized-militarism-and-africas-elusive-liberation/

Critical Consciousness As A Tool To Decolonise Philanthropy

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/critical-consciousness-as-a-tool-to-decolonise-philanthropy/

Engaging the Concept of Women’s Interests: What Does It Mean and Who Defines It?

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/engaging-the-concept-of-womens-interests-what-does-it-mean-and-who-defines-it/

Theory as a Liberatory Practice: How Do We Humanise Theory?

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/theory-as-a-liberatory-practice-how-do-we-humanise-theory/

An Invitation to Lock into Revolutionary Hope

https://liberationallianceafrica.com/an-invitation-to-lock-into-revolutionary-hope/

Innovation From Our Roots | 2025 Sawaba Fellowship Project

In her Sawaba Fellowship project, Celine Apollon reflects on the marketplace not simply as a site of trade, but as...

Not Pioneers of an Empty Land | 2026 Sawaba Fellowship Call

What does it mean to remember that we come from somewhere and are shaped by memory, lineage, and knowledge systems...

The Ubiquitous Maggi Cube: Exploring coloniality through cuisine | 2025 Sawaba Fellowship Project

In many kitchens across the continent, there is a small, familiar object that rarely draws attention to itself. It sits...

Feminist Church – A Radical Experiment of Gathering and Practices of Liberation

What might it look like to practice liberation not as a distant ideal but as something lived, nurtured, and sustained...

Recentering African Indigenous Knowledge to Prevent and Respond to Sexual violence

A Position Paper from Liberation Alliance Africa’s Community of Practice For many of us, the first gong that summoned us...

A Kaleidoscope of Hope | A Three-Year Strategic Plan for Liberation Alliance Africa

Inherited from our ancestors, revolutionary hope is one of our most treasured tools for liberation, shaping our world making, our...

Call for Applications: Managing Editor for the Sawaba Journal

The Sawaba Institute of Critical Consciousness Raising, a project of Liberation Alliance Africa (LAA Collective), is looking for a Managing...

Call for Applications Strategic Advisor | Sawaba Institute for Critical Consciousness Raising

Liberation Alliance Africa (LAA Collective) is inviting applications for the role of Strategic Advisor under the Sawaba Institute for Critical...

Glamourized Militarism and Africa’s Elusive Liberation

On a recent flight to Dakar, a cabin crew member of an African airline enthusiastically greeted a Burkinabe passport holder...

6 Ancestral Calls To Action For Africa’s Liberation

Africa Liberation Day is a moment not just of remembrance, but of reckoning. While flags were raised and colonial powers...

The “African Values” Agenda of the West is a Tool for Continued Colonialism. We are Not Fooled

A lineup of white men swooping into the African continent to lecture us on African values — if this isn’t...

A Modern Take on the Relevance of Gender Quotas for Substantive Women’s Representation in African Politics

Zainab Monisola Olaitan When we think of gender quotas, we are instinctively forced to think about how they help to...

An Invitation to Lock into Revolutionary Hope

I recently read a poem that described hope as a feather that perches on the soul, sings a tune and...

Critical Consciousness As A Tool To Decolonise Philanthropy

Writing from a decolonial feminist perspective, Oluwatobiloba reflects in this article on current practices within the philanthropic sector and the...

Engaging the Concept of Women’s Interests: What Does It Mean and Who Defines It?

This article highlights the need for a shift in mindset in how society homogenizes women and centralizes the issues that...

Perceptions of Feminism in the Digital Space: Why is Feminism Negatively Perceived in an Increasingly Digital World?

Feminism which is simply the belief in the equality of sexes and a movement for the advancement of women’s rights...

Weaving Liberatory Actions: Reflections from the #ShiftThePower Global Summit

The GFCF #ShiftThePower global summit took place at the Agora Center in Bogota in December 2023. The global summit served...

Building a Community of Practice that Translates Concerns into Action

In the face of massive pushback by anti-rights agents who are well funded and united in opposing the freedom of...

Reclaiming Agency: Dreaming of a Decolonial Feminist Philanthropy in West Africa

The report, Reclaiming Agency: Dreaming of a Decolonial Feminist Philanthropy in West Africa, explores the philanthropy landscape in West Africa...

Decolonising Efforts in Philanthropy: Experience Weaving

Philanthropy continues to face several challenges in its effort to collaborate with activists in the pursuit of Africa’s transformation and...

Disrupting Colonial Legacies of Philanthropy in Africa

One of the legacies of colonialism is the narrative that African states are incapable of effecting inclusive and transformative impact...

Theory as a Liberatory Practice: How Do We Humanise Theory?

I learnt about Theory when I read Bell Hooks’ essay on Theory as a Liberatory Practice. In the essay, bell...

Our Naming Ceremony

We did not come to our Name by chance. After a period of dreaming and reflecting on what liberation means...

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