This year, with support from African Women’s Development Fund, Femme Forte Uganda unveiled the Virtual Museum of African Feminists — an interactive digital platform that documents, preserves, and celebrates African feminist histories, thought, and resistance. 

Femme Forte described this as a “historic and deeply personal launch. The museum emerged as a bold response to shrinking civic space, erasure of feminist narratives, and the silencing of gender- diverse communities across the continent.

 The virtual museum has drawn widespread attention from mainstream and new media. Dubbed by Ugandan media as “Uganda’s feminist digital museum” and hailed as a “groundbreaking virtual museum” this spaces marks the “dawn of a new era”.  It curates archival materials, storytelling, activist histories, and visual content that reflect the depth and diversity of African feminist organising. 

Answering why anyone would want to visit a feminist museum, in her speech, Penelope Sanyu, then Chief Stewardess of the Femme Forte, noted that “the simple answer is because history has always done a good job at erasing the genius labour, and stories of women”. 

The Virtual Museum of African Feminists is designed as both a memory project and a tool for education, it enables women, queer, and gender-diverse persons to reclaim voice and visibility on their terms. By reimagining digital museums as civic and political spaces, Femme Forte is expanding how feminist knowledge is produced, preserved, and accessed. This initiative offers a model for how digital platforms can resist erasure while affirming the lived realities and resistance of African feminists. 

African feminist stories deserve to be told and this is a powerful tribute to the voices, struggles, and victories of African feminist icons.

Watch the launch HERE 

Step inside the museum here