Sylvia Bawa
"Feminists make too much noise!" Generational differences and ambivalence in feminist development politics in Ghana" in Canadian Journal of African Studies, 52 (1), 1-17
Despite the crucial role feminist movements play in securing progressive development policies, legislation and socio-legal protections for women, labeling women's rights issues as feminist has contradictory, mostly negative, effects on the women's movement in Africa. This paper discusses research findings that show that older women (activists) are more likely to self-identify as feminists than younger […]
"Agency, Social Status and Performing Marriage in Postcolonial Societies" in Journal of Asian and African Studies, 54 (7)
This article examines contextually-grounded perspectives on the socio-political significance of marriage in contemporary Ghanaian society. Drawing on qualitative interviews among men and women in northwestern Ghana, this article argues that, beyond historicizing the institution of monogamous marriage, women’s agency in desiring, and navigating marriages are performatively agentic and tied to attaining a myriad of socio-cultural, […]
"(Un)African women: identity, class and moral geographies in postcolonial times" in African Identities, 16 (4)
The concrete and abstract geographies of difference on the African continent not only arise from environmental, socio-cultural and religious factors but also from the historical and differential impacts and experiences of colonization and its legacies. In this paper, we use the web series, An African City, as a reference point, to examine the troubling nature […]