Africa: How African Feminism Changed the World

8 March 2017
analysis

Today as ever, African female activists are reshaping not just African feminist agendas but global ones as well.

One of the great fallacies one still hears today is that feminism started in the Global North and found its way to the Global South. Another is that universal understandings of women's rights as embodied in UN treaties and conventions were formulated by activists in the North.

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