Our Mission
To disrupt existing power structures that undermine feminist liberation, challenge structures of oppression and raise consciousness towards collective liberation through radical knowledge production, policy advocacy, decolonial feminist organising and the documentation of the cultural evolution of liberation in Africa.
Our Dream and Vision
The historical patterns of power in relation to knowledge, social order, thought and expression has constituted a hindrance to African thought, knowledge and radical organising. The rise of fundamentalist movements, shrinking of civic spaces and repression of the rights of women and gender-expansive persons especially in the global South and particularly in Africa calls us to rigorous intellectual and social resistance based on critical thinking.
Liberation Alliance Africa is a collective of African feminists on the continent and in diaspora working to disrupt the legacies of historical colonial inequalities and domination and its resulting harm using African feminist scholarship. We recognise that we cannot continue to live with the memories of others as ours and that our future will not be birthed in a vacuum. Therefore, we are called to explore newfrontiers, reimagine our individual and collective futures and sustain an alliance of conscious Africans raising our voices in resistance and celebration.
Our Soul Chants
People Over Process
At Liberation Alliance Africa, we believe in the prioritisation of people over processes and operate through a system that recognises productivity to include individual as well as collective happiness, joy and wellness.
Solidarity
To us, solidarity is about mobilising and unleashing our individual and collective power to build a world where there is peace, equality, respect for the Earth, and resources for the rights and wellbeing of all people — regardless of gender identity, race, nationality, ability, class, caste, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or location.
Equality
At Liberation Alliance Africa, we understand that injustice and inequality is a symptom of unequal and exploitative power structures. Therefore, we will disrupt, resist and organise to democratise power by amplifying the voices of marginalised and minority groups.
Meaningful Inclusion
“We are not minorities, we have been minoritised, we are not under-represented, we have been historically excluded…” Meaningful inclusion to us is not benevolence, it is the relinquishing of power and resources to minoritised groups to shape their reality.
Service
We see ourselves as co-labourers for feminist liberation in Africa. Therefore, we will always be ready to serve, assist and collaborate for our collective goal.
Credibility
Our foundation is built on trustworthiness and character. We enjoin our communities to not only put their faith in us but trust alongside us as we envision and claim new liberatory feminist realities.
Love
At Liberation Alliance Africa, love is political. The act of loving is profound, inspiring us to move forward towards self-actualisation and communal aspirations for justice and liberation in the midst of a shrinking civic space and opportunities for freedom.
Learning
At Liberation Alliance Africa, we pledge a lifelong commitment to learning through our experiences, other feminist movements, emerging knowledge and practices in the building of our collective and organising efforts in Africa.
The Collective
Mubeezi Tenda
Communications Associate | Uganda
Mubeezi creates politically grounded content that brings Liberation Alliance Africa’s work and vision into conversation with the world. Their work is shaped by feminist, decolonial, Afrocentric, and anti-capitalist traditions. They find restoration in reading, art, yoga, nature walks, and exploratory conversations.
Reem Abbas
Program Associate | Khartoum, Sudan
Reem supports the integration of offline and online programming while managing the Community of Practise on Recentering African Indigenous Knowledge to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence. Grounded in feminism and pan-African solidarity, she finds restoration in reading her horoscope, coffee and warm food, traditional Chinese medicine, plays, crime shows, keeping her space tidy, Sudanese sandalwood incense (bakhoor), and buying flowers on Sundays
Ife Oyewale
Nigeria
Ife contributes to advancing LAA’s vision through collaborative work that supports its programs and knowledge production. Their thinking and practice are shaped by feminist, decolonial, and liberation-oriented traditions. They find restoration in moments of joy, reflection, and practices that nurture grounding and rest.
Oyindamola Bolaji
Design and Communications Specialist | Nigeria
Oyindamola supports the organization’s visual and digital communications, creating compelling design systems, campaign materials, and content that amplify feminist narratives across the continent. Their work is grounded in equality, intersectionality, and collective care. They find restoration in storytelling, creating art, and good food.
Brenda Fuen Formin
Programme Associate – Dreaming New Liberatory Worlds | Cameroon / Central Africa
Brenda is dedicated to crafting decolonial feminist programmes and learning spaces that stretch LAA’s political imagination and deepen organizing power. She stewards knowledge production, visioning processes, and the intellectual and emotional scaffolding that grounds the collective in liberation-centred practice. Her politics are rooted in Pan-African feminism, decolonial thought, community authority, digital rights and femtech in shaping futures. She is restored by reading, travel, cooking, deep political conversations, and music and singing.
Omolara Oriye
Co-dreamer | Nigeria
Omolara co-leads the collective’s anti-colonial feminist dreaming work through knowledge production, feminist leadership, and management. Their work is grounded in anti-colonial praxis, including decolonial feminisms, critical pedagogy, African Feminism, Stiwanism, Feminism for the 99%, social epistemologies, and African feminist knowledge traditions. They find restoration in long walks, meditation, community organising, playlists, travel, friends, and shadow work.
Oluwatobiloba Ayodele
Co-dreamer | Nigeria
Oluwatobiloba dreams of liberatory futures and guides the collective through feminist communication, exploration, and strategic management. Their work is grounded in liberatory, decolonial, feminist, and critical consciousness traditions. They find restoration in good food, friends, and Oreoluwa.
Advisory Council
Crystal Simeoni
is a Pan-African feminist activist working on macro level economic issues. She currently serves as the Director of Nawi—Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (The Nawi Collective).
Olabukunola Williams
Buky is a feminist who is committed to dismantling patriarchal structures that reinforces and contributes to discrimination and violence against women and girls and vulnerable persons in all their diversities. She currently serves as the SRHR Lead at Akina Mama wa Afrika and has previously served as the former Executive Director of Education As A Vaccine, an organization that works with young people to advance their right to health and protection from all forms of violence.
Our Partners
