Crystal Simeoni – ChangeMaker Chat – African women writing the story
The change that is possible when narratives like economics are grounded in the stories of our lives
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Rules and assumptions like economics are far from natural or neutral. They are written by a certain group of people and serve a particular set of interests. So what does it look like when a growing group of African women begin to disrupt these assumption by building approaches to economics, food, health and politics that starts with their lives?
Crystal Simeoni has spent six years spearheading a pan-African feminist movement that is doing exactly this. We talk about her journey to this work that has been built out of her experiences working in community based economics in Kenya, and based on a long held critique of top-down policy systems. Crystal has strengthened community-led research methods to design change differently. She no longer wants a seat a table that has already been set by someone else. She is working with African women through NAWI to build a new table that is designed with African women in mind.
You can find out more about NAWI Collective here: https://nawi.africa/
The African Feminist Journal Crystal mentioned is here: https://feministafrica.net/
The repository of African women’s thought leadership on political economy questions is here: https://kofa.nawi.africa/
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