Skip to main content
YouTube Facebook Instagram X Spotify Apple Podcasts

Main navigation

  • Home
    • About Pambazuka News
    • Get Involved
    • GDPR & Privacy Policy
  • Thematic Areas
    • Advocacy & Solidarity
    • Arts & Book Reviews
    • Commentaries
    • Popular Participation & Democratization
    • Food, Health & Wellbeing
    • Gender & Social Justice
    • Global South & Transnational Struggles
    • Violence & Peace
    • Artificial Intelligence & Technologies
    • Land & Environment
    • Global Pan-Africanism
  • Submissions
  • Podcast
  • Authors
  • Donate
  • Subscribe
Home

LATEST UPDATES

Gender & Social Justice
Gendering Masculinity as Quintessential Patriarchal Privilege
Gender & Social Justice
Soften Her Up: Iris Kaingu and the Politics of Respectability
Gender & Social Justice
Default Mothers, Doubted Wives: Patriarchy’s Legal Architecture in Kenya
Gender & Social Justice
Public Morality: Nigeria's War On its Marginalised Groups
Gender & Social Justice
Patriarchy, Economic Crisis and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Global Africa

Valentina Acava Mmaka


  • My body and skin

    Valentina Acava Mmaka | Arts & Book Reviews
    23.09.2014

    What is your body? What is it to you, to others and to the whole world? Who makes decisions about your body and why? Here’s one woman’s deep thoughts on these fundamental questions

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews

  • FGM: Kenyan woman uses film to fight scourge

    Valentina Acava Mmaka | Governance
    05.06.2014

    Circumcision of women and girls continues around the world even in countries where it has been expressly banned by law. More and diverse efforts are need to win this struggle, as this Kenyan film-maker explains

    Tagged under Governance Kenya

  • Mother

    Valentina Acava Mmaka | Governance
    01.05.2014

    Tribute to a remarkable, unforgettable woman

    Tagged under Governance

  • He died with shame

    Valentina Acava Mmaka | Governance
    26.02.2014

    The personal anguish that homosexual people go through in a society that rejects and attacks them is unspeakable. Does an innocent human being deserve this?

    Tagged under Governance

Subscribe to Valentina Acava Mmaka

CALL FOR ARTICLES


NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE

930

Moving Beyond Patriarchy, Gender and Masculinity

929

Jason Arday, Drongo Company and More: White Supremacy, Turkey, and Imperial Competition in Africa

928

Africa Beyond Illusions: Transforming and Liberating a Continent.

927

From Haiti to Somalia: Language, Football, and Enduring Colonial Logics

926

The World's First Trillionaire: Global Africa, Financial Capitalism, and Neocolonial Struggles

925

 Special Issue on Migration and Global Africa: Mobility, Borders, and Precarity 

924

World Cup, Sexuality, Religion and Health: Power and Consciousness in the Global South. 

923

Special Issue on African Liberation Vol I and Vol II

Download Issue 923 Vol I & II PDF

922

Neocolonialism and Struggles for African Sovereignty 

921

Reparative and Democratic Struggles amid Militarism and Capitalist Crises

920

US Imperialism and its Denouement

919

Transatlantic Enslavement and the Urgency of Reparations: Reckoning with the Gravest Crime Against Humanity

LATEST POSTS

tf
Gender & Social Justice
The Last Colony is the Home: Patriarchy, Social Reproduction, and the New Enclosures of Care
BY Tafahri Munjatta
pt
Gender & Social Justice
Gendering Masculinity as Quintessential Patriarchal Privilege
BY Patricia McFadden
sh
Gender & Social Justice
Soften Her Up: Iris Kaingu and the Politics of Respectability
BY Chishimba Kasanga
pz
Gender & Social Justice
Default Mothers, Doubted Wives: Patriarchy’s Legal Architecture in Kenya
BY Carolyn W. Gatonye
mp
Gender & Social Justice
Public Morality: Nigeria's War On its Marginalised Groups
BY Mistus Elordie
pd
Global South & Transnational Struggles
The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants: The Long Durée of Colonial Violence in the UK and Europe
BY Patricia Daley

Copyright © 2025 Pambazuka News

Footer

  • Home
  • Donate
  • Get Involved
  • Subscribe