Loud Whispers

Name: Loud Whispers
SKU: 84455
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Loud Whispers is a riveting collection of essays written by one of Africa’s most vocal feminist activists and thinkers. Reflective, funny, passionate, moving, and irreverent, the range and depth of the content are breathtaking. From profound commentaries on political and social affairs to observations on relationships and multi-generational concerns, this is one book you will not stop reading once you start.

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About the Author

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi is a Feminist Scholar and Activist, Gender and Development Specialist, Social Entrepreneur, Policy Advocate, and Writer.
She has a BA (1984) and MA (1988) in History from the University of Ife, Nigeria (now Obafemi Awolowo University). She also received an MA in Gender and Society (1992) from Middlesex University, UK.

She is the founder of the African Women’s Leadership Institute based in Kampala, Uganda, which has trained over 6,000 African women leaders over the past twenty years. She co-founded the African Women’s Development Fund, the first pan-African grant-making foundation for women, where she served as Executive Director from 2001-2010.
Mrs Fayemi is the founder of Above Whispers Media Foundation and runs an online community called Abovewhispers.com.
She is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Africa Leadership Center, Kings’s College, London.

She is one of the most vocal women’s rights activists and thinkers on the African continent, and a leading voice not only in the African women’s movement and civil society but in the global women’s movement as well.