Keynote & Roundtable: Decolonizing Gender - Women in Decolonial Debate

This session explores how African women engage and reshape the concept of gender within decolonial frameworks. It examines how feminist thought and practice navigate the entanglements of colonial legacies, patriarchal structures, and global rights discourses. What does it mean to speak of gender justice in societies marked by historical and ongoing forms of imperial domination? How are women asserting agency and reframing feminist struggles in ways that are locally rooted yet globally resonant? Through theoretical reflection and grounded analysis, the session interrogates the politics of voice, visibility, and resistance—and asks how African women are contributing to the global project of decolonizing knowledge, institutions, and gender itself. This session is a collaboration with the University of Bergen GOV project

Moderator: Lise Rakner (University of Bergen)
Panel: Florence Ebila, (Makerere Institute of Social Research, MISR); Lyn Ossome (MISR); Mbasughun Ukpi (MISR); Rebecca Wembabazi (MISR).

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The event can also be streamed through this link https://vimeo.com/event/5310104/771be1ea8e