Category: Blog posts

The Gandhian Legacy of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

By Dr Sreenanti Banerjee

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was an Indian anticolonial feminist activist, a social worker and a social reformer. She, among other things, revolutionized the Indian handloom and textile industry, and with that

African Women and Pan-Africanism  

By Dr Nicole M Gipson 

Global neoliberalism, working through local neo-colonial states, has developed to crisis-fuelled, environmentally destructive, and militarized extremes of extraction, while Africa remains subject as ever to the Western economic doctrines that have

Evidence of Things Unseen:  Ghanaian Women’s Struggle for Independence and Freedom 

By Dr Nicole Gipson 

Throughout history, women have achieved great things – in the dark. The all-encompassing importance of men has cast a shadow on her name. This invisibility