The African Feminist Forum (AFF) is a biennial conference that brings together African feminist activists to deliberate on issues of key concern to the
feminist movement
The feminist movement (also known as the women's movement, or feminism) refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by the inequality between men and women. Such ...
.
It was developed out of the growing concern amongst feminists on the continent, that the efforts to advance the rights of women on the continent were under serious threat from a number of sources. It took place for the first time in November 2006 in
Accra,
Ghana
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, and has subsequently convened in
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The sou ...
(2008),
Senegal
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(2010) and in
Harare, Zimbabwe
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(2016).
The African Feminist Forum Program
The African Feminist Forum program is organised along clusters which reflect the concerns and priorities of African feminists. Each cluster has two or three Coordinators. The clusters are as follows:
* Crafting an African
Feminist Epistemology
* Feminist Perspectives on
Sexual and Reproductive health and rights
Sexual and reproductive health and rights or ''SRHR'' is the concept of human rights applied to sexuality and reproduction. It is a combination of four fields that in some contexts are more or less distinct from each other, but less so or not at ...
in Africa
* African Feminism: political and economic power; resisting fundamentalisms
* Intersecting-Generations
* Feminist Creative Expression
* African Women's Movements: organizations, structures and capacities
* Confronting violation in women's lives
*
Global Feminism and the UN System
Members
*
Doo Aphane
*
*
Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi
*
Everjoice Win
*
Mary Wandia
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://web.archive.org/web/20130522120636/http://africanfeministforum.org/
Black feminist organizations
Multicultural feminism
Recurring events established in 2006
2006 establishments in Ghana