What We Do
Decolonial Feminist Organising
Decolonial Feminist Organising allows us to challenge and disrupt established eurocentric notions of feminist organising and gender. Liberation Alliance Africa considers the place of continued legacies of colonialism, neoliberalism and neocolonialism as antithetical to the recognition of women in Africa. Therefore, we seek to undo the erasure of women in political, intellectual and social spaces and document the evolution of liberation especially of women, girls and gender-expansive persons in Africa. Our approach insists on the inclusion of personal and collective reflections. This allows us to elevate ways of organising that are African and decolonial, bringing African women’s knowledge, scholarship and intellectual agency from the margins to centre.
Critical Consciousness Raising
Critical consciousness-raising allows us to explore learning and teaching about systems of domination, how they became institutionalised and how their powers are perpetuated and maintained. We believe that women’s liberation struggle calls for a distinctly feminist methodology in dissecting oppression, exploitation, literacy, and conscientization that moves a people from awareness to action. Liberation Alliance Africa supports groups and movements to learn and unlearn —making self the first site of the liberatory process. We believe in order to dismantle the old order and form new realities that engender dismantling systems of oppression, we must commit to critical consciousness raising.
Advancing Feminist Liberation Realities
At Liberation Alliance Africa, we advance feminist liberation realities through policy advocacy for the implementation of the Maputo Protocol in West Africa. We do this through collaboration with feminist organisations, collectives and activists in West Africa to advance and promote the implementation and monitoring of government accountability on the rights of women and girls in Africa. In the rise of fundamentalism and civic space oppression, we join continent wide solidarity and support resources for movement building and power. We remain in community with African Feminist Collectives; building links and creating space for reflection, evidence and experience-based discourse.
Feminist Leadership and Solidarity
Liberation Alliance Africa rejects the structural and patriarchal approaches to leadership and community. We promote accountability, equitable distribution of power and responsibilities and sharing of communal love as our guiding praxis. Therefore, we seek to model feminist values and politics in organising amongst ourselves and the communities we engage with. Feminist leadership is transformative, calling us to embrace and advance a feminist vision of social justice that is not about authority and control but embraces the dismantling of discriminatory structures of power – visible, hidden, and invisible. We support feminist organisations to embrace this reality through knowledge creation, leadership and solidarity.
Co- Creating Feminist Joy — Self and Collective Care
We are called to live, work and move in ways that liberate and allow us to frame a collective that is poised to ask difficult questions, and demand answers even from ourselves. We are committed to renewing our minds towards advancing collective leadership for the benefit of the collective. This is a practice that we intentionally imbibe as we build and grow as a collective.
