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African Feminist web Journal, Novmeber, 2002
We at the Africa Gender Institute's Gender and Women's Studies Programme would like to announce the launch of the first Africa-wide feminist electronic journal: "Feminist Africa." http://www.feministafrica.org

The launch issue entitled "Intellectual Politics" explores Feminist Perspectives on African Higher Education mapping its current features and analysing the persistence of systemic gender inequality in the African higher education landscape. Contributions document some of the main institutional reform strategies that have been deployed to address the persistence and, indeed, the reproduction of gender subordination in higher education, and subject the sector to a critical feminist analysis. By making reference to concrete examples, the issue also looks at why and how gender studies (as an intellectual strategy) has developed in African contexts over the last two decades, and whether this has served the end of overcoming the patriarchal premises of universities or not. The issue goes on to deal with the global context that affects gender-based intellectual activism in terms of research, teaching and publishing.

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