Welcome to the House of African Feminisms podcasts. Here we have three podcast series namely Feminist Practices and Knowledge, Gender Justice and One Foot In The Closet. Our podcasts highlight and interrogate subjects that are an integral part of the discussion surrounding African Feminisms. They feature various guests and professionals from around the continent. We hope you will enjoy them.

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5 October 2026

If Only Youth Could Return Some Day

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‘If Only Youth Could Return Some Day’ is a sound piece that explores resilience, transmission, and memory through oral storytelling, song, and polyphonic voices. Rooted in Morocco’s oral traditions, the work emerges from speculative questions about the future and finds its answers by listening to th…

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23 June 2026
Leaving No One Behind - Conversations

In this final conversation in the series, Françoise Moudouthe, founder of Eyala, a bilingual platform that amplifies the voices and lived experiences of African…

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23 June 2026
Leaving No One Behind - The Diary of a Black Feminist

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 dia…

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23 June 2026
Leaving No One Behind - African Women In The Digital Space

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 fe…

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23 June 2026
Leaving No One Behind - The Other Language of Women

In this second conversation in the “ Leaving No One Behind” series, Edwige Dro sits down with Leonora Miano novelist, playwright and essayist to discuss i…

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23 June 2026
Leaving No One Behind - Locating Strongwoman

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 t…

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7 April 2026
The Gathering Podcast - Polycrisis and Feminist Responses Part 2

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…

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15 December 2025
The Gathering Podcast - Feminist Rituals of Healing and Community

This third episode in The Gathering series looks at the essential role of feminism and feminist principles in healing and community building. Specifically, it e…

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15 December 2025
The Gathering Podcast - Polycrisis and Feminist Responses

In the first half of the conversation on African Feminisms and Polycrisis, Marilyn Kamuru and Brenda Wambui introduce the dimensions of polycrisis, the history…

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15 December 2025
The Gathering Podcast - An unpacking of African Feminisms and Allyship

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

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15 July 2025
One Foot In The Closet - Episode 7 : Abashese Azinee

In this episode of One Foot In The Closet, our host Name Redacted, sits down with Abashese Azinee, as they talk about:How queer spaces on the continent feel lik…

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15 July 2025
One Foot In The Closet - Episode 6 Double Dealer Part2

In this episode of One Foot In The Closet, our host Name Redacted, sits down with Double Dealer, as they talk about:Blurred lines between sex and loveWhy we nee…

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15 July 2025
One Foot In The Closet - Episode 5 : Double Dealer

In this episode of One Foot In The Closet, our host Name Redacted, sits down with Double Dealer, as they talk about:Icebreakers Double Dealer uses to gauge if s…

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15 July 2025
One Foot In The Closet - Episode 4 : Queer African Reads Part 2

In this episode of One Foot In The Closet, our host Name Redacted, sits down with Queer African Reads, as they talk about:The erasure of queer African histories…

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14 August 2024
One Foot In The Closet - Episode 3 : Queer African Reads, Part1

In this episode of One Foot In The Closet, our host Name Redacted, sits down with Queer African Reads, as they talk about:How they both don't understand how met…

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31 July 2024
One Foot In The Closet - Episode 2: Nanseera, Part 2

In the second episode of One Foot In The Closet, our host Name Redacted, sits down with Nanseera, as they talk about: Being queer and being lower middle class;…

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17 July 2024
One Foot In The Closet - Episode 1 : Nanseera, Part 1

In the debut episode of One Foot In The Closet, our host Name Redacted, sits down with Nanseera, as they talk about: Catholicism, including: Catholic Schools, t…

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9 July 2024
One Foot In The Closet - Intro

In this third offering from the House of African Feminisms in conjunction with Name Redacted they discuss being queer on the continent and the phenomenon of "co…

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12 October 2023
Gender Justice - Episode 5 : A General Perspective

In episode five of our Gender Justice series, Zippy Okoth and Queenter Mbori explore Gender Justice from the perspective of Dr. Zippy Okoth’s personal life.

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4 October 2023
Gender Justice - Episode 4 : A Historical Context

In episode four of our Gender Justice series, Mulenga Kapwepwe and Samba Yonga explore the history of Gender Justice fom a Zambian historical perspective.

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28 September 2023
Gender Justice - Episode 3 : Gender Justice and Unequal Pay Part 2

In episode three of our Gender Justice series, Sandrine Mignonne Iradukunda and Uwera Rutamu Fabiola explore Gender Justice particularly unequal pay from a Rwan…

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28 September 2023
Gender Justice - Episode 3 : Gender Justice & Unequal Pay Part 1

In episode three of our Gender Justice series, Sandrine Mignonne Iradukunda and Uwera Rutamu Fabiola explore Gender Justice particularly unequal pay from a Rwan…

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21 September 2023
Gender Justice - Episode 2 : Gender Justice & Domestic Work

In episode two of our Gender Justice series, Nyambura Mutanyi and Maureen Wambui explore domestic work as a site for gender-based violence and discriminatory…

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4 September 2023
Gender Justice - Episode 1: Gender Justice In Schools Part 3

In episode one of our Gender Justice series, Noma Pakade and Rudo Chigudu discuss Gender Justice in schools specifically in the South African context in a thre…

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4 September 2023
Gender Justice - Episode 1: Gender Justice In Schools Part 2

In episode one of our Gender Justice series, Noma Pakade and Rudo Chigudu discuss Gender Justice in schools specifically in the South African context in a thre…

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4 September 2023
Gender Justice - Episode 1 : Gender Justice In Schools Part 1

In episode one of our Gender Justice series, Noma Pakade and Rudo Chigudu discuss Gender Justice in schools specifically in the South African context in a thre…

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16 June 2023
Gender Justice - Introduction

In this intro of the House of African Feminisms (HoAF) second podcast series titled Gender Justice, the HoAF project coordinator gives a brief glimpse of what c…

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25 April 2023
Feminist Practices and Knowledge - Episode 5: Exploring African female agency and culture through Efua Oyofo's “udamalore” (English)

Interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and storyteller Efua Oyofo discusses the layers of her multi-sensory cultural heritage project, “udamalore”. In an enligh…

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16 May 2022
Episode 3: African Spirituality as a Practice of Feminism (Amharic)

This episode is about belief systems, spirituality, and feminism. Dr. Serawit Bekele discusses from her own studies womens place in African Spirituality introd…

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16 May 2022
Feminist Practices and Knowledge - Episode 4: African Feminist Literature (English)

Francoise and Nana have an informal conversation as friends about how they came to feminism and how they discovered African Feminist Literature. They discuss th…

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16 May 2022
Feminist Practices and Knowledge - Introduction (English)

An introduction to the podcast series „Feminist Knowledge and Practices“ produced by the „House of African Feminisms“ in cooperation with different female contr…

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16 May 2022
Feminist Practices and Knowledge - Episode 2: My Ovaries My Decision (Portuguese)

In this episode entitled, My ovaries, my decision, Withney Sabino, founder of Mañas, the first Mozambican social and feminist magazine, chats with Graça Samo, t…

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16 May 2022
Feminist Practices and Knowledge - Episode 1: Money is a Feminist Issue (French)

In this first episode of the House of African Feminisms podcast, Edwige Dro chats with Ivorian feminist, Désirée Dénéo, General Secretary of La Ligue – The Ivor…

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