Firmin Mbala, a specialist in human rights and international development, has over 20 years of experience in research, advocacy, and program management. He has led major initiatives in West and Central Africa, working to defend fundamental rights, combat inequalities, discrimination, and gender-based violence.He has worked with Open Society Foundations, Amnesty International, and has consulted for the African Union and UN agencies. He Holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po Bordeaux, his writings are published in a personal capacity and do not reflect the views of his past or current employers.
At a time when social violence, especially sexual and gender-based violence, is increasing across Africa, the need to reflect on the knowledge that shapes and drives its dynamics becomes more urgent. …
READ MOREThis special issue of Global Africa opens with a dual challenge: to conceptualize protective knowledge as situated forms of resistance, and to question our collective capacity to establish an eth…
READ MOREThis issue of Global Africa journal is published in a highly concerning geopolitical and international context. The fight against gender-based violence (GBV), hitherto the subject of relativ…
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