In this final conversation in the series, Françoise Moudouthe, founder of Eyala, a bilingual platform that amplifies the voices and lived experiences of African feminists and provides them with learning and solidarity spaces talks with Edwige Dro about setting up spaces, the need for knowledge production to amplify African voices, the relevance of intimate lives as a political tool, and sisterhood. 

In this third episode Edwige Dro talks with  Axelle Jah Njiké , pagan feminist and author of Journal intime d'une féministe (noire) published by Editions du diable Vauvert in 2022. Edwige and Axelle discuss transmission and issues relating to intimacy, feminism and identity.   

Axella child. Born in Cameroon and brought to France as a child, she was named by Le Monde as one of the n e Jah Njiké is the author of Journal intime d'une féministe (noire), published by Au Diable Vauvert in 2022, in which she recounts a life experience that is unusual in the French literary landscape: that of an Afropean girl, woman, citizen turned mother, who suffered sexual and educational violence as ew faces of feminism. Axelle is also a podcaster, documentary filmmaker and playwright. Defining herself as a Pagan feminist, her work explores transmission and questions linked to intimacy, feminism and identity. For her artistic and literary creations and her contribution to the promotion of the arts and literature in France and around the world, she was named Chevaleresse de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2022. 

In this third episode taped on Africa Women's Day 2024 Edwige Dro was joined by Dr Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, assistant professor at Cornell University and a feminist activist-scholar to discuss African Women in the Digital Space. Dr Wunpini who was born and raised in Tamale Ghana is co-editor of the book “African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora” (2023). Her research which focuses on feminisms, social movements, decolonization and media have appeared in various scholarly journals. She has worked as a journalist in Ghana for several years and some of her work has appeared in Al Jazeera, The Washington Post and The Guardian. 

In this second conversation in the “ Leaving No One Behind” series, Edwige Dro sits down with Leonora Miano novelist, playwright and essayist to discuss intersectionality. Edwige and Leonora talk about " L'autre langue des femmes" (The Other Language of Women), Leonora Miano's essay published in 2021 by Grasset .  

Born in Douala (Cameroon) in 1973, Léonora Miano is a leading figure in French-language literature. A novelist, playwright and essayist, she is the author of around twenty books. Her work explores the sub-Saharan and Afro-descendant experiences, whether singular and universal. Léonora Miano was awarded the Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2006 for Contours du jour qui vient (Plon), the Prix Seligmann against racisme in 2012 for Écrits pour la parole (L'Arche), the Prix Fémina and the Grand Prix du roman métis in 2013 for La saison de l'ombre (Grasset). In 2020, the Université de Lorraine, in collaboration with the University of the Grande Région , which brings together 6 European universities, is creating the Prix Frontières - Léonora Miano; prize in tribute to her writings and commitments. In 2024, she received the Words for Change Prize at the Blue Metropolis Festival in Montreal. Léonora Miano helms the Quilombola collection at Seagull Books, an independent publisher based in India, and is the founder of The Quilombo Publishing house in Lomé, where she lives. A performance artist, Léonora Miano combines music and literature in her plays. 

In this first conversation, Tolu Agbelusi and Edwige Dro discuss Tolu's book of poetry: Locating Strongwoman. The book reflects on “the embodiment of the fact that strength can and most often does exist in ordinary living, away from a podium, or the fabricated perfection that is sold to us as womanhood. The poems speak to unperformed living, the joy and the searching, the falling and the failing, the silence as language, the learning and the unlearning of our conditioning, and the triumph of inhabiting everything that we are without apology as the ultimate.” 

In the second half of the conversation on African Feminisms and Polycrisis, Marilyn Kamuru and Brenda Wambui delve deeper into the embodiment of polycrisis and how it lives in the bodies of African women. They discuss how African women in particular can fight back against prevailing paradigms that create and perpetuate polycrisis, as well as the role of non-governmental bodies/NGOs in this fight. They offer a compassionate critique on the traditional structures within movements, such as NGOs, as well as how these structures can be reimagined to be more accountable to movements.

This third episode in The Gathering series looks at the essential role of feminism and feminist principles in healing and community building. Specifically, it emphasizes the importance of ritual, ceremony, and the physical act of gathering in safe spaces as core methods for healing. 

In the first half of the conversation on African Feminisms and Polycrisis, Marilyn Kamuru and Brenda Wambui introduce the dimensions of polycrisis, the history of the term, and its implications on African women in particular. They discuss the role of the State, whose role tends to be invisibilised despite its perpetuation of polycrisis through either action or inaction. They also discuss critique on the framing of polycrisis, and introduce the ways in which African women, and the wider African and Global South population, can combat polycrisis and the despair it comes with.

The first series in The Gathering podcast series looks at the role of men in African Feminist Movements 

In this episode of One Foot In The Closet, our host Name Redacted, sits down with Abashese Azinee, as they talk about:

1. How queer spaces on the continent feel like a hug

2. How splitting oneself and being whoever they're allowed to be, instead of who they truly were, affects them over time? 

3. How African feminist Twitter spaces saved their lives and more!

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