insert_link Africa Kenya’s femicide cases need national action: declare a crisis now – scholar By Awino Okech, SOAS, University of London Ugandan athlete and Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei died in September 2024 after being set alight by a man she knew in Eldoret, Kenya. Cheptegei’s murder was reported to have been about a conflict over land ownership. Her attacker, Dickson Ndiema, has since died from injuries sustained in the attack. Cheptegei is not the first woman athlete to be murdered in Kenya. […] todaySeptember 18, 2024 9
insert_link South Africa Women in South Africa’s armed struggle: new book records history at first hand By Thoko Sipungu, Rhodes University South Africa’s young democracy was a culmination of years of sweat, blood and revolution against the apartheid regime. In the early 1960s, after decades of “non-violence” as a policy of resistance, the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) formed military wings to take the fight to the apartheid regime. Based on the living record and popular discourse, it would […] todayFebruary 20, 2024 12
insert_link Lifestyle What would Carl Jung tell you to do with your spreadsheet of life goals? Throw it away and embrace the feminine Wikipedia/ETH-Bibliothek Aliette Lambert, University of Bath and George Ferns, University of Bath Current debates about gender have become polarised. These divisive arguments tend to focus on narrowly defining “man” or “woman”, rather than considering archetypal underpinnings of the feminine and masculine. For psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung and post-Jungian thinkers, these concepts are crucial to understanding gender and wider cultural dynamics. A Jungian perspective considers the feminine and masculine as […] todayJanuary 31, 2024 16
insert_link Africa Black Ghosts: Noo Saro-Wiwa’s new book is a powerful reflection on Africans in China By Janet Remmington, University of York Noo Saro-Wiwa is a celebrated Nigerian-born travel writer. Her latest book is Black Ghosts. It explores, with candour and compassion, the lives of several African economic migrants living in China, a group of people who are key to trade between the continents. As a scholar of African travel writing and mobility, among other fields, I read the book with keen interest and then […] todayDecember 15, 2023 8
insert_link Environment COP28 launches partnership to support women’s economic empowerment and ensure a gender-responsive just transition at COP28 Gender Equality Day During COP28’s Gender Equality Day, ministers and senior officials convened in a series of discussions, supported by the UNFCCC and led by UN Climate Change High-Level Champion for COP28 Razan Al Mubarak, to ensure a gender-responsive just transition to support the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The high-level dialogue culminated in the announcement of a new COP28 Gender-Responsive Just Transitions & Climate Action Partnership from the COP28 Presidency, which was […] todayDecember 5, 2023 4
