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Grace, Tenacity and Eloquence: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Africa

Edited by Patrick Burnett, Shereen Karmali & Firoze Manji (2007) 

In Africa, women are fighting for their rights. And they are fighting with grace, tenacity and eloquence. The contributors describe how African women won a cross-continental campaign for a protocol to protect their rights. In a rich variety of articles, they consider topics such as: women and conflict, the impact of current US policies on women’s health in Africa, women’s rights in Islam, and the implications of the Jacob Zuma trial for women in South Africa.

The articles first appeared in the prize-winning weekly electronic newsletter, Pambazuka News. They provide an easy-to-read introduction to the struggle for women’s rights in Africa.

Table of Contents:

CHAPTER 1 CAMPAIGNING FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS

International Women’s Day – Can we dare celebrate?
Caroline Ageng’o

Aspiration into action: ratify the protocol now!
Jacqueline Asiimwe

Home-grown rights instruments: supporting the Protocol
on the Rights of Women in Africa
Gladys Mutukwa

Millennium Development Goals and the Protocol
on the Rights of Women in Africa
Souad Abdennebi-Abderrahim

Strategies for civil society organisations in moving
from ratification to implementation in West Africa
Aminata Dieye

Who will bell the cat? Restoring rights to African women
Eve Odete

CHAPTER 2 MOVING THE PROTOCOL FROM PAPER TO REALITY

Smile, woman of Africa, smile!
A. N. Kithaka

Challenges of domesticating the women’s rights protocol
Sarah Mukasa

Reviewing the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa
Irungu Houghton

Women’s rights: a tale of two national assemblies in Africa
Faith Cheruiyot

Great expectations for African women’s educational
empowerment through the protocol
Roselynn Musa

CHAPTER 3 WOMEN, HEALTH AND FOOD SECURITY

Promising health and food security
Saudatu Mahdi

Making reproductive health rights a reality
Anne Gathumbi

Unlocking women’s right to land
Equality Now Africa Regional Office

Towards human rights for all women in Namibia
Liz Frank

HIV/Aids – A challenge to the successful implementation
of the protocol
Elize Delport

African women confront Bush’s Aids policy
Yifat Susskind

CHAPTER 4 WOMEN AND CONFLICT

The International Criminal Court: a ray of hope for
the women of Darfur?
Christine Butegwa

Sudan’s peace agreement and the position of women
Roselynn Musa

Peace a year on in southern Sudan: what has changed
for women?
SIHA Network

Regulation of information during conflict situations:
the role of women
Amie Joof-Cole

Women are Africa’s political hope
Emira Woods and Lisa VeneKlasen

CHAPTER 5 WOMEN AND ISLAM

Women’s reproductive and sexual rights and the offence
of zina in Muslim laws in Nigeria
Ayesha M. Imam

The Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa and
its compatibility with Islamic legal principles
Maryam Uwais

Women’s rights in Islam
Khédija El Madani

Niger: democratic principles and the rejection of the protocol
Sibongile Ndashe

CHAPTER 6 WOMEN AND THE JACOB ZUMA TRIAL

The Jacob Zuma rape case: a letter to Khwezi
from 54 African women

South Africa: the Zuma trial, gender and the judiciary
Interview with Delphine Serumaga

Can I speak, please?
Sibongile Ndashe

Justice with dignity
Vanessa Ludwig

The socio-political eunuch called an impartial judge
Nikki Naylor

Dear Diary
Lindiwe Nkutha

CHAPTER 7 COMMENTS AND ANALYSES

Fast tracking to equality: the SADC gender journey
Janah Ncube

Women with disabilities and sexual violence in Kenya Monica Mbaru-Mwangi

Vagina Monologues: ‘I am glad they have banned it’
Sarah Mukasa

Letter to Thabo Mbeki from African women
Mohau Pheko and Lebohang Pheko

Showing the red card to trafficking in human beings:
foul play expected
SOLWODI (Solidarity with Women in Distress)

Freedom to abuse – choices in the African blogosphere
Sokari Ekine

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