THE CONTINENT FALLING BEHIND: Africa’s placement in the Global Feminist Foreign Policy Discourse

The Afro-feminist movement, while an increasingly recognisable force across the world, has remained conspicuously absent in global discussions on Feminist Foreign Policy. This exclusion is, for the most part, systemic; its continuity poses a grave danger to Africa’s ability to curb Eurocentrism in international relations, manage transnational threats and effect globalisation. To leave the conversation lacking in African voices and Afro-feminist contributions is to allow it to remain Eurocentric and, therefore, not serve Africa’s best interests. We should instead be in the conversation shaping what FFP looks like from an Afro-feminist view, centering our own civil society and feminist movements in our stance.

Ultimately, if Africa is to position itself as a thought leader and critical player, we must deliberately and strategically engage in this crucial geopolitical discourse. Africa must consider its placement in this discourse for our relations with donor countries and International Financial Institutions, especially within the context of the reform of a global financial architecture.

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