ACAS Bulletin 83: Sexual and gender based violence in Africa
Edited by Daniel Moshenberg
This Bulletin began in response to news reports of “corrective” and “curative” gang rapes of lesbians in South Africa. These were then followed by news reports of a study in South Africa that found that one in four men in South Africa had committed rape, many of them more than once. We wanted to bring together concerned Africa scholars and committed African activists and practitioners, to help contextualize these reports. We wanted to address the ongoing situation of sexual and gender based violence on the continent, the media coverage of sexual and gender based violence in Africa, and possibilities for responses, however partial, that might offer alternatives to the discourse of the repeated profession of shock or the endless, and endlessly reiterated, cycle of lamentation. To that end, we have brought together writers of prose fiction (Megan Voysey-Braig), lawyer-advocates (Salma Maoulidi, Ann Njogu), poets (Chinwe Azubuike), trauma scholars (Sariane Leigh), human righs and women’s rights advocates (Michelle McHardy), gender and transgender advocates (Liesl Theron), activist researchers (Sasha Gear). These categories are fluid, since every writer here is involved in various activist projects, advocates in many ways. The writers do not pretend to `cover Africa’, and neither does the collection of their writings. The writings treat South Africa, Nigeria, Zanzibar, Kenya, Sierra Leone. They are meant to continue certain conversations, to initiate others. … Read the rest of the introductionTable of Contents Sexual and gender based violence: everyday, everywhere, and yet… | pdf Untitled | pdf Zanzibar GBV advocacy: important lessons for future legal reform strategies | pdf Searching for the will to conscientiously prosecute sexual crimes in Zanzibar | pdf Poet’s Note | pdf Post conflict recovery in Sierra Leone: the spiritual self and the transformational state | pdf To be a woman in Kenya: a look at sexual and gender-based violence | pdf Trans-hate at the core of gender based violence? | pdf Manhood, violence and coercive sexualities in men’s prisons: dynamics and consequences behind bars and beyond | pdf Supplemental Material Profile: Dr Denis Mukwge Interview: Sexual terrorism in eastern DRC Report: Soldiers who rape, commanders who condone |
