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Akina Mama wa Afrika
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Akina Mama wa Afrika
@amwaafrika
We’re a Pan-African feminist leadership development organisation headquartered in Kampala, and breaking ground throughout the continent.
- Are you an African researcher, scholar, or activist applying a feminist analysis & interventions to our shared economic & social crises? If yes, apply to attend 2024's Feminist Economics Summer School! 🗓️ 30 Sept. to 4 Oct.📍Kampala, Uganda. Apply here - t.ly/YL_Sy
- What is the point of the revolution if we can't stop to smell the flowers, stop and dance to the beat! Well, before the year ends, we will have an opportunity to revel in feminist joy at the annual Feminist Healing Festival themed around Radical Care! See🧵on participation!
- For all the women naming their abusers and sharing stories of rape, we believe you! We are ready to offer legal and psychosocial support to survivors who need it. Please DM us.
- We stand in solidarity with Ugandan youth and people in all their diversity as they exercise their constitutional right to demand accountable, responsible, and transformative governance from their leaders today. #March2Parliament
- 🎉🎉🎉 .@amwaafrika is proud to announce that our Executive Director, @musiimee, has been named among the 100 impactful African women leading change in development across Africa by @DonorsForAfrica Click here to view the whole list: donorsforafricafoundation.org
- Gather around East African feminists!💃🏿 The application for the East Africa gathering of the African Feminist Forum 2022 has officially opened. Click the 🔗forms.gle/2sETWHCjL7EACE… to register. Registration closes 26th of August. #AFF2022 #AFFEastAfrica2022
- We are thrilled to share our guide titled, "From an African Feminist Kitchen: Recipes for Radical Care" with you. Through activist stories, we demonstrate the need for a radical approach to care and how to organize within this framework. bit.ly/3TbPXdt #16DaysOfActivism
- Join the Solidarity for African Women's Rights @SOAWR Coalition, in partnership with FEMNET and AWDF, at the launch of the new SRHR advocacy-changing resource, "The Maputo Protocol Unpacked: A Toolkit for Young Change-makers." Whether you work for a youth organisation or are
- To Be Loved is to Be Seen and Heard: Who is Invisible in the SRHR and Gender Justice Conversation? Calling all African storytellers! Send us your stories in any format—blog, podcast, video, art, or more. Let’s amplify the voices that need to be heard! 📅 Deadline:March 7th 2025
- The feminist movement in Spain and Latin America stands in solidarity with #WomensMarchUg , condemns the senseless murder of Ugandan women & supports the right of women to demand for accountability through peaceful assembly. #WomensLivesMatterUg
- We insist on positioning the black woman in all her diversities at the different stages of Africa's story. We must walk down the path of writing resistance & read everything we can lay our hands on! Which African woman are you currently reading? What is your latest writing?
- CALL FOR PROPOSALS 📢 AMwA under the auspices of the Voices for Climate Action (VCA) welcomes proposals from African based feminist creative organizations & coalitions to partner in developing innovative advocacy knowledge products. Apply here: bit.ly/3Mwx8wB
- We stand in solidarity with our Kenyan siblings as they rise in protest against Femicide. If you are in Kenya, check the yellow poster to see the places where the marches will take place. #TotalShutDownKE #EndFemicideKE
