The Adilisha program will be holding a movement building boot camp for activists’ from social justice movements and organisations in Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Malawi.The boot camp being held in Lusaka, Zambia from May 12 to 17 will facilitate activists' consciousness of their context from a deep analysis and connect what they are doing to the bigger picture or vision of social change they seek to achieve.
Ruth Mumbi has been nominated for this years Front Line Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The award is to recognise outstanding contributions made by human rights activists. Ruth is one of six nominees selected from a total of 90 nominations.
Two of her fellow nominees are currently in prison. Congratulations go to Ruth.
WE ARE THE SOLUTION is a Pan African women campaign for food sovereignty and women access to resources. The WE ARE THE SOLUTION campaign sisters organized a brilliant conference in March 2013, Dakar Sénégal. Four (04) african rural women leaders engaged debate with their mate on issue of peasant seeds, women in agriculture, land grabbing and agro ecological practices for food sovereignty.
It is almost a week since the March 4th national general elections conducted by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the presidential results are yet to be released. There is an impatient and restless atmosphere in the country. On this fateful day, it is about three in the afternoon and people are slowly trickling into the church hall that doubles up as a community hall in Mathare’s Stage 10 area.
Fahamu is establishing a sex worker leadership initiative (SWLI) for sex worker rights activists based in Eastern and Southern Africa.The outcome of the proposed SWLI will be a strengthened sex worker movement in Eastern and Southern Africa able to translate their desired impact into concrete action plans, within which they are able to articulate theories of change, identify and engage allies as well as implement effective, innovative strategies using a diversity of tools.
Across the country, pockets of Kenyans are determined to use video to protect their democracy during the March 4th elections. Bukeni Waruzi just returned from training these activists and citizen journalists, and here’s what he taught them.
Fahamu is distinctively placed as a Pan-African organisation supporting and working collaboratively with social movements over the long term. It comprises a core team of highly skilled and experienced staff and is seeking to recruit a dynamic Executive Director to manage that dedicated team and spearhead the execution of Fahamu’s mid-term and long term strategies, especially the completion of the organisation’s transition from the United Kingdom to Africa.
Fahamu seeks to recruit a dynamic, organised, motivated and results-oriented individual for the position of programme officer of the Sex Worker Leadership Initiative working under the Adilisha programme. The position is based in Nairobi, Kenya with partnerships with networks and activists in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Fahamu is seeking to recruit a dynamic Finance and Operations Manager to be in charge of the institution’s annual budget and lead the finance and operations staff based in Kenya, Senegal and the United Kingdom. We are particularly interested in hearing from suitably qualified candidates and citizens of Kenya.
December 5, 2012 (Nairobi) - Well known entertainers, media personalities and sports men and women in Kenya, including Nameless, Just a Band, DNA, Mbusii, Millicent Mugadi, Kobi, Gado and several others have added their names to the growing number of supporters of the people’s petition calling on African governments to deliver on the promises they made at the African Union.