Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.

The Horn of Africa is often seen as a zone of conflict and human rights abuses, but it is also the site of civic activism, nonviolent revolutions and rising feminist movements.

In our first Civil Society Dialogue in the Horn of Africa podcast, Rachel Ibreck (Goldsmiths, University of London) hosts a discussion with an all-women cast of activists and researchers reflecting on an African feminist agenda for the region.

Click here to listen https://soundcloud.com/debating-ideas/outlining-an-african-feminist-agenda

Contributors include:

Mbalenhle Matandela, Gender Specialist and Research Consultant for the Research Working Group on the Horn of Africa

Yodit Lemma from the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

Reem Abbas, Sudan-based journalist and political commentator on migration and human rights

Jackline Nawisa, South Sudan based human rights lawyer and peace activist, chairperson of Board of Directors of the South Sudan National Alliance of Women Lawyers (NAWL)