Migration and free movement within Africa remain critical yet underreported issues, especially when it comes to their impact on women. African Women in Media (AWiM) has led a fellowship-driven project ...

WOMEN in Lesotho have always played a major role in food production albeit at a subsistence level. In this patriarchal and gendered society, it is inculcated into every female- from toddlers as young ...

Lesotho appointed its first female deputy prime minister. But women constitute only 20% of new government's cabinet. The Basotho endorse the right of a princess to become chief. Lesotho's first female ...

Standing at any high point in Lesotho, you can almost always see South Africa. It feels like one can simply walk over there and start a new life. No borders, no fences, no visible guards, just plain ...

Almost three-fourths (73%) of citizens say women should have the same chance as men of being elected to public office. The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal No. 5 calls for gender equality ...

African women's Christian pious associations in southern Africa, or manyanos, have tended to be regarded by both European observers and elite African men as a `bizarre' phenomenon. Their apparently ...

MASERU, Lesotho (UNHCR) - Refugees are not a big issue in the Southern African kingdom of Lesotho. Not because there are none - the country hosts about 100 refugees - but because they have been ...

Women, marriage, divorce and the emerging Colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904 / Judith Byfield -- "She thinks she's like a man": marriage and (de)constructing gender identity in Colonial ...