Recentering African Indigenous Knowledge to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Violence
This side event, convened by Liberation Alliance Africa, draws from our position paper and raises three critical enquiries:
• An audit of dominant knowledge systems shaping sexual violence prevention and response
• An interrogation of hetero-patriarchal colonial capitalism and state complicity in sustaining sexual violence
• A centring of Indigenous and endogenous knowledge systems as essential political infrastructure for healing, accountability, and collective safety.
The session will feature members of the Building Knowledge Bridges community of practice:
Hind Ahmed Zaki
Ngozi Nwosu-Juba
Hala Al-Karib
Esther Wambui
Oluwatobiloba Ayodele
This is a space for practitioners, researchers, funders, organisers, and movement actors working within the sexual violence ecosystem.