Birthing and Growing the African Feminist Forum

Ayesha M. Imam looks at the development of the African Feminist Forum (AFF) in 2006 and subsequent national and pan-African Feminist Forums that followed. The AFF is an autonomous space for African feminists to reflect, reconnect and re-energize in order to strengthen African feminist visions, analyses, movements and campaigns and strategies in order so as to promote women's rights and transform African realities in socially just and emancipatory ways. Development (2009) 52, 167–174. doi:10.1057/dev.2009.24