The African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town is a feminist research unit, committed to political work on the African continent. We focus on writing, publications, research processes and partnerships, network-building and participative learning.

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Head of the AGI and Director of the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, Associate Professor Jane Bennett is in Dakar,...

May 28-30, 2013: Six women Nobel Peace Laureates and more than 80 activists, academics, and philanthropists from around the world gathered in Belfast, Northern Ireland, for Moving Beyond Militarism & War: Women-driven...

By Christopher Zara (24 May 2013)
For some time now, a growing cadre of...
Source: Washington Post (30 May 2013)
Nigeria’s House of Representatives voted Thursday to ban gay marriage and outlaw any groups actively supporting gay rights, endorsing a...
Source: openDemocracy website
Amina Mama (30 May 2013)

It is not that ‘masculinity’ generates war, as the question has been put, but rather that the process of militarization both draws on and...