Reclaiming Our Power: The May Dispatch!

May was a month of pure, unadulterated African feminist fire! We gathered our collective brilliance in Nairobi for the monumental Bold Circles convening, where we were all about dismantling patriarchy and reclaiming our narrative power.

From locking arms in deep sisterhood to diving into strategic labs on feminist legal advocacy, digital safety, and survivor-centered organizing, we can analyse systemic violence—briefly and boldly, we co-created a fierce, unified African Feminist GBV Action Agenda to disrupt the status   quo and rewrite the continent’s future!

The Bold Circles Convening

The convening Reshaping an African Feminist Agenda to End Gender-Based Violence held from 19th to 21st May 2026 brought together feminist organizers, advocates, and women’s rights organizations from across 17 African countries to strengthen collective advocacy, deepen movement building, and advance coordinated feminist action to end Gender Based Violence.

The meeting created space for critical conversations on accountability, feminist legal advocacy, narrative power, digital safety, trauma-informed organizing, coalition building, and survivor-centered approaches, while reflecting on the growing challenges facing feminist movements, including rising femicide, shrinking civic spaces, online violence, and weak implementation of gender justice frameworks across the continent.

Click here to read more on the discussions held on day 1 and day 2 of the convening.