Feminist, panAfrican collective raising critical consciousness through radical knowledge production, decolonial feminist organising documenting our liberation.
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It’s a pleasure to share the latest publication from Liberation Alliance Africa’s Community of Practice: “Are We on the Cusp of a Beautiful Rupture?” A compendium on building community power in philanthropy across West Africa. Access: bit.ly/3ImLEbO #ShiftThePower
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What belongs in our collective toolbox for liberation?
The Sawaba Journal invites submissions for its inaugural issue on Decolonial Feminist Thought & Praxis.
📅 Deadline: 15 July 2026
Details: url-shortener.me/MO83
#SawabaJournal #FeministCall #AfricanWritersCall
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Before us, others resisted.
What can their journeys teach us about our own liberation?
The inaugural Sawaba Journal is now accepting submissions on Decolonial Feminist Thought and Praxis.
📅 Deadline: 15 July 2026. More details: url-shortener.me/MO83
#SawabaJournal
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The Critical Consciousness Pop-Up lands in Lagos this May! 🌍🔥
Join feminist thinkers, artists, organizers for radical imagination and collective reflection under the theme:
“Nurturing Anti-Imperialist Feminist Solidarity & Revolutionary Hope”
Register: luma.com/aw5xced7
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Deadline is tomorrow🌠We cannot wait to see your application!📩
#SawabaFellowship #FeministFellowships #Decolonisation
🥁🥁🥁 Not Pioneers of an Empty Land | 2026 Sawaba Call
The Sawaba Institute of Critical Consciousness Raising is accepting applications for the Sawaba Fellowship on the above theme.
🗓 Deadline: 24 Apr 2026
Application Details: liberationallianceafrica.com…
#SawabaFellowship
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Whispering***
New human books are soon joining the Library of Perspectives… 📚
New worlds to step into.
New perspectives to challenge how you see everything.
But before we unveil what’s next… have you caught up yet?
Dive into all the modules at libraryofperspectives.com
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What does a Maggi cube carry beyond taste?
For 2025 Sawaba Fellow Edwige Dro (@DroEdwige), the Ubiquitous Maggi Cube illustrates how coloniality has shaped African cuisines and what it means to reclaim food, memory, and practice.
Explore her work here liberationallianceafrica.com…
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🥁🥁🥁 Not Pioneers of an Empty Land | 2026 Sawaba Call
The Sawaba Institute of Critical Consciousness Raising is accepting applications for the Sawaba Fellowship on the above theme.
🗓 Deadline: 24 Apr 2026
Application Details: liberationallianceafrica.com…
#SawabaFellowship
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🌟 Feminist Church – A Radical Experiment of Liberation 🌟
Spotlighting Sawaba Fellow Sunshine Komusana’s project on a Ugandan feminist community reimagining how we gather & build beyond dominant systems.
Read more:
liberationallianceafrica.com…
#FeministFutures #DecolonialWork
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A slideshow from the first Sawaba Fellowship 2025 in Dakar, Senegal under Alchemical Transmutations.
What began there continues to live and grow. More soon.
Read more: open.substack.com/pub/libera…
#SawabaFellowship #AlchemicalTransmutations
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If carceral systems don’t end sexual violence, what actually does?
Explore our Sexual Violence Position Paper: usercontent.one/wp/liberatio…
#JusticeBeyondPunishment #TransformativeJustice #SexualViolence
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We look to the state as one of the key components in fighting violence but this sits in tension with its simultaneous role as a holder of legitimate force, often deployed to discipline, contain, and silence. 🧵
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In this contradiction, we are forced to ask: what does “safety” mean when it is produced through the very mechanisms that generate harm?
Our latest position paper, on sexual violence unpacks these tensions.
Read here: liberationallianceafrica.com…
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The state’s promise of protection exists alongside its monopoly on violence, which is used to silence dissent and suppress resistance.
Protection and punishment are not opposites here they are entangled in the same architecture of power.
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In Nairobi, the Liberation Alliance Africa Community of Practice gathered in deep dialogue, tracing feminist lineages, unsettling dominant narratives, and mapping the hidden networks that sustain harm.
Read more on our latest substack, open.substack.com/pub/libera…
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Over the years, funding, policies, and global attention have grown yet this visibility has not translated into justice or prevention.
A thread🧵
#SexualVioelence #IndigenousEpistemologies #FeministTheories #AfricanFeministTheory
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Read more in LAA’s latest position paper:
💫 Recentering African Indigenous Knowledge to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence 💫 Copy link: liberationallianceafrica.com…
#SexualVioelence #IndigenousEpistemologies #FeministTheories #AfricanFeministTheory
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When there is a shift in whose knowledge we centre,
we shift what becomes possible. #SexualVioelence #IndigenousEpistemologies #FeministTheories #AfricanFeministTheory
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Much of what we “know” is shaped by donor priorities and global frameworks determining whose knowledge counts and whose is ignored.
#SexualVioelence #IndigenousEpistemologies #FeministTheories #AfricanFeministTheory
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Harm is individualised, while the real culprits dispossession, exploitation, and militarisation fade into the background.
#SexualVioelence #IndigenousEpistemologies #FeministTheories #AfricanFeministTheory
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Too often, responses focus on documenting harm
while the systems that produce it remain unchallenged.
#SexualVioelence #IndigenousEpistemologies #FeministTheories #AfricanFeministTheory
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