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The Runway to Feminist Justice Podcast series discusses topical issues at the intersection of feminism and racial justice. This series of podcasts is developed by the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice, which is hosted at SOAS, University of London. For more information about the Feminist Centre, please go to our website: www.thefeministcentre.org

3d ago

Episode 50: The Sound of Justice with Eric Wainaina

Fifty episodes in, we're celebrating with one of Kenya's most influential singer-songwriters. Eric Wainaina joins us to talk about 25 years of music as social storytelling, from Sawa Sawa and Daima to Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo, D.O. Misiani's legacy, and Pan-African collaborations. BioEric Wainaina is one of Kenya's most influential singer-songwriters, known for blending Benga, Soukous-inspired guitar, pop harmonies, and traditional instrumentation with powerful social storytelling. A Berklee College of Music graduate and Jack Maher Award winner, he is behind landmark songs including Daima and Nchi ya Kitu Kidogo. He is an ambassador for Transparency International (Kenya), the Kenya Human Rights Commission, and UNEP, and an accomplished composer and theatrical producer. Credits Interviewer: Awino Okech Interviewee: Eric Wainaina Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Sound design, editing & production: Samuel OduorMusic: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay
Oct 26

Episode 49: Rogue Women Takeover I This Body Is an Archive with Valerie Asiimwe Amani

Rogue Women Takeover In this series, we sit with African feminists, activists, and culture-makers to trace how women have learned about sex, sexuality, and their own bodies; from the wisdom of the Bana Chimbusa to the endless scroll of social media. Hosted by Ann Kay Holland, Rogue Women Takeover reclaims the stories, silences, and lessons that shape how African women understand pleasure, power, and bodily autonomy. About the episode How do women learn about sex, and how do those lessons change across generations? In this episode, Valerie Asiimwe Amani takes us beyond the idea that there is only one African way of teaching sexuality. Drawing from Tanzanian and broader African perspectives, we explore how women have passed down knowledge about intimacy, relationships, desire, and womanhood, and how those teachings continue to evolve alongside changing cultures, religions, and feminist movements. Together, we ask not only what we inherited, but what is worth carrying forward. Guest Bio Valerie Asiimwe Amani is a Tanzanian anti-disciplinary artist, writer, and doctoral researcher at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and founder of Art Aunty. Her practice draws on feminist epistemologies, spiritual ecologies, and African cosmologies. Host Bio Ann Kay Holland is a Zambian feminist, human rights advocate, and feminist curator. She is Founder and Managing Director of Sistah Sistah Foundation and founder of Rogue Woman, a platform celebrating bold, unapologetic women driving social change. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Ann Kay Holland Sound design, editing, production: Derick Armah Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay
Oct 19

Episode 48: Rogue Women Takeover I The Body Is Political with Professor Awino Okech

Rogue Women Takeover In this series, we sit with African feminists, activists, and culture-makers to trace how women have learned about sex, sexuality, and their own bodies; from the wisdom of the Bana Chimbusa to the endless scroll of social media. Hosted by Ann Kay Holland, Rogue Women Takeover reclaims the stories, silences, and lessons that shape how African women understand pleasure, power, and bodily autonomy. About the episode Sex did not become taboo by accident. Long before colonialism and missionary Christianity, many African communities had their own ways of teaching about the body, intimacy, pleasure, and relationships, with women often serving as the custodians of this knowledge. In this episode, we explore how those traditions were disrupted as colonial rule, religion, and patriarchy reshaped ideas of morality, respectability, and womanhood. Together, we unpack how silence around sex was produced, why it continues to shape our lives today, and what it means to reclaim sexual knowledge as an act of feminist resistance. This is a conversation about history, power, and the enduring politics of women's bodies. Guest Bio Awino Okech is a Kenyan feminist scholar, Professor of Feminist and Security Studies at SOAS, University of London, and founding director of the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice. Her research and teaching explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, conflict, and security. Host Bio Ann Kay Holland is a Zambian feminist, human rights advocate, and feminist curator. She is Founder and Managing Director of Sistah Sistah Foundation and founder of Rogue Woman, a platform celebrating bold, unapologetic women driving social change. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Ann Kay Holland Sound design, editing, production: Derick Armah Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay
Oct 12

Episode 47: Rogue Women Takeover I In the House of Bana Chimbusa

Rogue Women Takeover In this series, we sit with African feminists, activists, and culture-makers to trace how women have learned about sex, sexuality, and their own bodies; from the wisdom of the Bana Chimbusa to the endless scroll of social media. Hosted by Ann Kay Holland, Rogue Women Takeover reclaims the stories, silences, and lessons that shape how African women understand pleasure, power, and bodily autonomy. About the episodeWho taught African women about sex before schools, churches, and the internet? We begin where many stories of womanhood have always begun: with Bana Chimbusa. This episode explores traditional Zambian sex education, the women who carried it, and the knowledge they passed from one generation to the next. Together, we ask what these teachings gave women, what they demanded of them, and what they still have to teach us today. Host bio Ann Kay Holland is a Zambian feminist, human rights advocate, and feminist curator. She is Founder and Managing Director of Sistah Sistah Foundation and founder of Rogue Woman, a platform celebrating bold, unapologetic women driving social change. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Ann Kay Holland Sound design, editing, production: Derick Armah Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay
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Trailer: Rogue Women Takeover I Beyond Respectability with Nokwanda Gambushe

Rogue Women Takeover In this series, we sit with African feminists, activists, and culture-makers to trace how women have learned about sex, sexuality, and their own bodies; from the wisdom of the Bana Chimbusa to the endless scroll of social media. Hosted by Ann Kay Holland, Rogue Women Takeover reclaims the stories, silences, and lessons that shape how African women understand pleasure, power, and bodily autonomy. Guest Bio Nokwanda Gambushe is a South African human rights defender, feminist, and gender activist advancing the rights of sex workers. They serve as National Programmes Coordinator at the Sisonke National Sex Workers Movement and Chairperson of the Young Sex Work Advisory Committee at the South African Sex Workers Alliance (SASWA). Host Bio Ann Kay Holland is a Zambian feminist, human rights advocate, and feminist curator. She is Founder and Managing Director of Sistah Sistah Foundation and founder of Rogue Woman, a platform celebrating bold, unapologetic women driving social change. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Ann Kay Holland Sound design, editing, production: Derick Armah Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay
Sep 21

Episode 45: 10 Questions with Professor Dzodzi Tsikata

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture. Bio Dzodzi Tsikata is Distinguished Research Professor of Development Studies at SOAS University of London. She spent thirty years at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at University of Ghana rising through the ranks from Junior Research Fellow to Research Professor of Development Sociology. Between 2016 and 2022, she was Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, and before then, Deputy Director and Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy (2005-2012). She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. Her research in the last 30 years has been centred on the gendered labour relations of agrarian and urban informal economies, the trajectories of African social policy regimes and gender and development policies and practices. She has led pan-African research teams to study these subjects, engaged in extensive fieldwork across Ghana and undertaken occasional field visits in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe over the years. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a pan-African research, networking and advocacy project, the Gender Equitable and Transformative Social Policy for Post-COVID-19 Africa (GETSPA), which is now in its second phase. Dzodzi is a leading member of several independent global South capacity building, research, and policy advocacy networks, including the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAS), the Agrarian South Network, Third World Network Africa, and the Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana. She is the Managing Editor of the pan-African journal, Feminist Africa and a member of the editorial collective of Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. She is currently a board member of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), the Development Network DAWN, and Africa Journals Online (AJOL) and the Centre for Democracy and Development in Abuja. She is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Vasiliki Vita Sound design, editing, production: Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay
Sep 7

Episode 44: 10 Questions with Dr. Ida Hadjivayanis

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture. Bio Ida Hadjivayanis is an academic at SOAS University of London where she lectures on Swahili studies and Translation. She has translated Dhulma (2025) and Peponi (2022), the Swahili translations of Theft (2025) and Paradise (1994) by the Nobel laureate, Abdulrazak Gurnah. Ida’s publications explore Swahili literary translations, norms of translating prose in Swahili and translocality of Swahili speakers in diaspora. She has collaborated with Salha Hamdani on a memoir : Salama binti Rubeya : Memories from the Swahili Coast / Salama binti Rubeya: Simulizi kutoka Mwambao wa Bahari ya Hindi which launches on August 23, 2025 in Zanzibar. The book offers a lived perspective of those who are often excluded from historical narratives, showcasing how the everyday person was impacted by historical forces. Ida has also translated Alisi ndani ya nchi ya Ajabu (2015) and Poems for the Penniless (2019), a collaboration with the Tanzanian academic, Issa Shivji. Her extensive public speaking engagements explore various themes including the reality of multi-lingualism in Africa, decolonisation in translations, the unequal encounters on the Indian Ocean and the place of Swahili as a global lingua-franca. Ida Hadjivayanis is the co-founder of the annual SOAS Baraza Swahili Conference. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Vasiliki Vita Sound design, editing, production: Ellan A. Lincoln Hyde Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay
Aug 24

Episode 43: 10 Questions with Dr. Yolande Bouka

10 Questions with Feminist Academics In this series we engage 10 feminist academics around 10 questions within and across their disciplines that are important for all to consider at this historical juncture. Bio Dr. Yolande Bouka is the Canada Research Chair on Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation, and an Associate Professor of gender and politics and international relations at Queen’s University in Canada. She is also the co-director of the Research Network on Women, Peace, and Security. Prior to her academic appointment, she worked as a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division, focusing on Africa’s Great Lakes Region. Her research focuses on gender, political violence, and race and international relations. The key questions driving her multidisciplinary research agenda is how vulnerable groups and individuals understand and navigate structural and political violence and how these experiences influence the social and political landscapes of conflict-affected societies. Her current research is a multi-sited historical and political analysis of female combatants in Southern Africa. She is also finalizing her book manuscript provisionally titled In the Shadow of Prison: Transitional Justice and Carceral Politics in Africa, which, based on years of interview and archival research, explores the role of prisons and incarceration in transitional African societies looking at Rwanda as a case study. Her research has received support from the Fulbright Scholar Program, the American Association of University Women, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She is the recipient of the 2021 International Studies Association (ISA) Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section (FTGS) Early Career Community Engagement Award. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Awino Okech Sound design, editing, production: Ellan A. Lincoln Hyde Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay

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Trailer: Rogue Women Takeover I Beyond Respectability with Nokwanda Gambushe

Rogue Women Takeover In this series, we sit with African feminists, activists, and culture-makers to trace how women have learned about sex, sexuality, and their own bodies; from the wisdom of the Bana Chimbusa to the endless scroll of social media. Hosted by Ann Kay Holland, Rogue Women Takeover reclaims the stories, silences, and lessons that shape how African women understand pleasure, power, and bodily autonomy. Guest Bio Nokwanda Gambushe is a South African human rights defender, feminist, and gender activist advancing the rights of sex workers. They serve as National Programmes Coordinator at the Sisonke National Sex Workers Movement and Chairperson of the Young Sex Work Advisory Committee at the South African Sex Workers Alliance (SASWA). Host Bio Ann Kay Holland is a Zambian feminist, human rights advocate, and feminist curator. She is Founder and Managing Director of Sistah Sistah Foundation and founder of Rogue Woman, a platform celebrating bold, unapologetic women driving social change. Credits Produced by: The Feminist Centre for Racial Justice Host: Ann Kay Holland Sound design, editing, production: Derick Armah Music: Grateful by audiolibraryinfinite from Pixabay

The Runway to Feminist Justice Podcast series discusses topical issues at the intersection of feminism and racial justice. This series of podcasts is developed by the Feminist Centre for Racial Justice, which is hosted at SOAS, University of London. For more information about the Feminist Centre, please go to our website: www.thefeministcentre.org

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Feminist Centre for Racial Justice
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2024 - 2026
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65
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