The culture industries of our world have historically been dominated by men and the African continent is no exception.

Women’s engagement in arts, cultural production and sports has led to the transmission of radical ideas, beliefs and attitudes. Women’s participation in cultural economies, also speaks to the immense value and contributions of women and invigorated connections and possibilities for communities across the continent and world. Through arts and sports, les femmes ont défié et brisé les stéréotypes, amplified the demands of women’s and feminist movements, ressources levées, et diffuser des messages de changement social. Art, culture and sports are critical sites for social transformation and movement building.

Malgré ce travail, femmes praticiennes des arts, la production culturelle et les sports font face à des contraintes persistantes face à l'intimidation, harcèlement, et vol de travail à l'isolement, immobilité, épuisement professionnel et accès limité aux réseaux de soins, Support, et les ressources de la durabilité. By working through a lens of intersectionality, African women are in a key position to speak out against multiple oppressions – le genre, sexualité, invalidité, course, classer, appartenance ethnique, géographie, etc. – within their fields of work.

Now more than ever, women practitioners are in a unique place to enable deeper engagement with and mobilisation of new constituencies of people, surtout les jeunes femmes.