The AFiP Collective

Nurturing a space for African Feminists to leverage their knowledge to respond to historic and contemporary injustices

[The AFiP Collective @AfIP_Collective]

Critical questions must be asked: who defines harm, whose suffering continues to be minimised, what constitutes reparations, and who ultimately benefits?

Read the paper here 👉🏿 https://t.co/E8oJ0hrMRj

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The UN General Assembly adopted Ghana’s resolution declaring the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. Argentina, Israel, and USA voted against, many Global North countries abstained. That is precisely why a decolonial Afro-feminist lens is non-negotiable

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As Prof Toni Haastrup emphasises, reparations cannot be reduced to financial compensation or apologies. They must confront the structural systems produced by slavery. This includes redistributing power, addressing epistemic violence & prioritising community-led healing processes.

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“We are witnessing a resurgence of organised actions that, under the banner of “family or African values”, seek to codify hate and discrimination into law and policy, building on colonial laws that are still upheld in many parts of the continent.”

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Colonial gender violence did not end with independence. It continues to mutate through neoliberal economic systems, through unpaid care work, climate injustice and extractivism – Njoki Wamai

🎥 A Decolonial, Pan-African Feminist Approach to Reparations
https://t.co/SkQFe7Ym8I

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‘Reparations is not a plea for inclusion, it is not a plea to be recognized, it is about asserting the sovereignty of African being and personhood in the world. Because that is the core of the crime that was done to us.’ - Panashe Chigumadzi

🎥 https://t.co/puiPPV1OR8

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Care is extracted from the Global South to sustain the Global North. This didn’t happen by accident.

Rosebell Kagumire examines the global care divide and how power, borders, and economic systems determine who survives childbirth and who does not.

🎥 https://t.co/ND8F3D9hly

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Economic warfare escalates as militants expand beyond the Sahel

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Why are Canadian arms fuelling foreign conflicts?

https://t.co/13NLrWM74p

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When a convoy tried to deliver aid to Gaza through North Africa, Egypt’s border stopped them. Even in moments of genocide, imperialism dictates who can cross a border, who gets aid, and whose lives matter - Rosebell Kagumire

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Modern migration governance pretends to be about rights but it denies citizenship, enforces racialised borders, and reproduces global inequalities. Who moves, how, and where to, is shaped by the same powers that produce war, climate crises, and economic precarity - Toni Haastrup

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Privileged white South Africans increasingly misuse “refugee” to describe discomfort with post-apartheid change, erasing the realities of true displacement

Join us as we unpack the co-optation and commodification of refugee identity by settler groups.

🔗 https://t.co/g36G6bsKfP

[The AFiP Collective @AfIP_Collective]

The Sahel isn’t just a site of coups, it’s a lab for imperial security regimes. EU, US & others arm militias, control movement & experiment with migration containment. Djibouti alone hosts US, China, France, Japan, Italy bases. These bases control our movement - Rosebell Kagumire

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Privileged white South Africans increasingly misuse “refugee” to describe discomfort with post-apartheid change, erasing the realities of true displacement

Join us as we unpack the co-optation and commodification of refugee identity by settler groups.

🔗 https://t.co/g36G6bsKfP

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Decolonising Diplomacy: Rethinking German-African Development and Foreign Policy

Join us next week for a Panel Discussion on Decolonising German-African Development. In commemoration of the anniversary of the end of the Berlin Conference, this panel discussion will explore how African and German actors can decolonise their partnership to achieve transformative development. The event will also reflect on findings from our study on decolonising German-African development and foreign policy, which was authored by Dr. Tshepo Gwatiwa.

📅 Date: Wednesday, February 26
⏰ Time: 9:30 - 11:00 AM CET
📍 Location: Online

🎙 Speakers:
Dr. Tshepo Gwatiwa – Intelligence & Security Studies Expert
Friederike Kärcher – Head of Africa Policy Division, BMZ
Dr. Thomas Henzschel – German Federal Foreign Office
Dr. Philani Mthembu – Executive Director, Institute for Global Dialogue
Moderator: Joshua Kwesi Aikins – Senior Fellow, APRI
Don't miss this opportunity to engage in a critical conversation in reshaping international partnerships.

🔗 Register now: https://t.co/0Em1IwTljk

You can read Dr. Tshepo Gwatiwa’s piece here: https://t.co/srCJlSao4X

#DecolonisingDiplomacy #AfricaGermanyRelations #ForeignPolicy #Development #PartnershipOfEquals #APRI

[The AFiP Collective @AfIP_Collective]

In light of the EAC/SADC summit outcomes and the AU Peace and Security Council meeting at the Heads of State level, we reject performative diplomacy and demand concrete, people-centred solutions driven by Congolese communities, not foreign interests or elite bargains. 

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[The AFiP Collective @AfIP_Collective]

We continue to refuse silence and inaction on the situation in #DRC!
We see the same cycle of violence, exploitation, and neocolonial plundering persist while the Congolese people especially women and girls bear the brunt of war, and displacement.

We stand with them ✊🏾

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