The Eyala advisors help us to define the strategic orientations of our work, provide strategic advice to the team, and act as ambassadors for Eyala. Drawn from different African origins, our advisors bring a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the Eyala journey.
The Circle is chaired by Eyala Founder Françoise Moudouthe, and is structured to be co-chaired by one other member of the Circle on a rotational basis.
Meet The Advisors
Âurea Mouzinho (Angola) | Twitter: @kitondowe
Âurea is a loud-laughing feminist organizer and scholar from the Atlantic coastal city of Luanda in Angola. Trained in economics and development studies, Âurea is rooted by a pan-African, socialist and decolonial feminist politics and practice that urges her towards the struggles for more just, sustainable, and fulfilling utopias.
In 2016, Âurea co-founded and joined the coordination of Ondjango Feminista, a feminist collective working to advance a transformative women´s rights and gender justice agenda in Angola through consciousness-raising, mobilisation and advocacy. Âurea has researched the history and challenges for women´s organising in Angola for Feminist Africa, the interplay between extractivism, militarisation and violence again women in Mozambique for WoMin Alliance, and the contemporary economic liberatory practices of African peoples worldwide for Africans in the Diaspora .
Feminist Life Motto: “By naming ourselves as Feminists we politicise the struggle for women’s rights, we question the legitimacy of the structures that keep women subjugated, and we develop tools for transformatory analysis and action.” – Charter of Feminist Principle for African Feminists
Françoise Kpeglo Moudouthe (Cameroon) | Twitter: @F_Moudouthe
A pan-African feminist with roots in Cameroon, Françoise Moudouthe is passionate about advocating for women’s rights and fostering sisterhood within African feminist movements.
She is the founder and now Advisor of Eyala.
Having played an instrumental role in incubating Girls Not Brides, the global civil society partnership to end child marriage, and in spearheading its growth in Africa, Françoise has most recently worked as an international consultant, focusing on strategy, advocacy and movement-building for gender justice in Africa. She is a Board member of the Malala Fund and Womankind Worldwide.
Lusungu Kalanga (Malawi) | Twitter: @Lusukalanga
Lusungu is a feminist and activist with over 11 years expertise & programming experience in women and girl's rights. She is a co-creator of the Feministing While Malawian podcast and the Co-founder of Growing Ambitions, an organization that creates safe spaces for girls and young women to thrive through mentorship and peer learning. She currently works with the Prevention Collaborative in capacity strengthening for organizations and individuals implementing VAWG prevention programmes, globally.
Lusungu previously led the prevention work for the UK-funded VAWG prevention and response programme in Malawi and sits on various boards of women and girls centered international organizations. She is excited to amplify the work of Eyala through her networks and support the nurturing of Eyala’s goal to be a safe space for diverse voices and sisterhood for African feminists!
Feminist Life Motto: The collective! That’s what it is about. We are not homogenous or monolithic, but we are our sister’s keeper.
Purity Kagwiria (Kenya) | Twitter: @pruncie
Purity is a feminist activist and a storyteller based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is passionate about girls’ freedoms, coaching and enabling girls and young women to access spaces to advance themselves and their communities.
She is our representative from Eyala’s fiscal sponsor, Purposeful, where she serves as the Director of the With and For Girls Fund and Collective. Prior to joining WFG/Purposeful, Purity was the Executive Director of Akili Dada, a leadership incubator for girls and young women who are passionate about social change. She has previously served as a founding advisory committee member of the FRIDA|The Young Feminist Fund.
Purity is currently a board member of Kakenya's Dream, an organization that leverages education to empower girls and end harmful traditional practices. She is a trustee of the Resource Centre for Women and Girls, an organization that works to empower girls from rural communities in Kenya.
Feminist life motto: “I am a feminist. I have been female for a long time now. It'd be stupid not to be on my own side” - Maya Angelou
Tshegofatso Senne (South Africa) | @mbongomuffin
Tshegofatso is a Black, chronically-ill, genderqueer feminist who does the most. Much of their work is rooted in pleasure, community, healing and dreaming, while being informed by somatic abolitionism and disability, healing and transformative justices.
Writing, researching and speaking on issues concerning feminism, community, sexual and reproductive justice, consent, rape culture and justice, Tshegofatso has 8 years of experience theorising on the ways in which these topics intersect with pleasure. They run their own business, Thembekile Stationery, and their community platform, Hedone, brings people together to explore and understand the power of trauma-awareness and pleasure in their daily lives.
Tshegofatso works with young people across the continent, hosting workshops, and mentoring them around issues of pleasure and liberation, using creativity and storytelling as fractal solutions to social injustices. Their TEDx talk ‘Reimagining BDSM’ looks at the tenderness and love that reveals itself in a lifestyle often only seen through an extreme lens. Tshegofatso believes deeply in the individual and collective potential of regenerative and sustainable change, pleasure, and care work.
Feminist Life Motto: To develop and relish in intentional practices of pleasure and community care; may they heal you and your people, for the generations that have passed and those still to come.
Emma Onekekou (Burkina Faso) | Twitter: @Emmaonekekou
Emma has a university degree in Communication and Resources Technology. She is a committed feminist working on the human rights of women and the LGBTQ community. After working with other organisations in Africa for the visibility and rights of African LGBTQ+ people, she created Emma.L.Infos, a platform that amplifies the voice of queer women in Francophone West Africa.
She is also taking her first steps in the world of writing with her collection of short stories À Celles qui s'aiment and is also a programme officer at AQYIi
Feminist life motto: “We are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence will save us, but it won’t.” Audre Lorde
KHAWLA KSIKSI (TUNISIA) | INSTAGRAM: @KHAWLAKSIKSI
Khawla is a Tunisian jurist, advocate for environmental justice and IS engaged in feminist, anti-racist, intersectional activism. She was dedicated for the last ten yearS to managing development projects in climate justice, gender equality, Queer-feminism and community mobilization.
After the Tunisian Revolution in 2011, she joined Mnemty (My Dream), an association that fights against all forms of discrimination and promotes unity, peace, and justice. She then co-founded Falgatna (We’re Fed Up), a queer-feminist movement which defends women’s rights and lobbies against sexual violence in Tunisia. In 2019, she co-founded the collective “Voices of Black Tunisian Women” which offers a safe space for self-expression, addresses issues affecting black women in Tunisia and promotes research about their social conditions. She is fluent in Arabic, French and English.
KHAWLA currently workS with International Rescue Committee organisation as an inclusion advisor.
Feminist Life Motto
Nadia Ahidjo (Cameroon) | Twitter: @Asmaaouu
Nadia is a feminist with strong expertise in feminist global development and a passion for leading diverse teams towards advancing gender and social inclusion, including in complex contexts. Nadia’s work has centered women’s rights across sub-Saharan Africa, and she has excellent knowledge of West and Central Francophone Africa.
Based in Dakar, Senegal, Nadia currently works at Equal Measures 2030 and has extensive advisory experience in and with leading African institutions, foundations, governments, private sector, and non-governmental organizations. Nadia is also a talented writer: she penned fantastic short stories and a couple of children’s books.
Feminist life motto: "Fuck the patriarchy" - Mona Eltahaway
Rose Ndengue (Cameroon) | @rose_tande
Rose is a Cameroonian historian, socio-politician, and scholar-Activist. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Glendon, York University, and is involved with several feminist organizations. She works on issues of gender and politics in Africa, and black feminisms in a (post)colonial context. Her work has been published in several academic journals and in a collective book edited by Felix Germain and Silyane Larcher, Black French women and the struggle for equality, 1848-2016. She also manages a blog that reports on her activities and interests:
Her professional life is informed by her various feminist commitments. In February 2017, with a dozen African and Afro-descendant women, she co-founded the Lyon-based Afrofeminist collective Sawtche, where she was an active member until September 2021. She has also cofounded the association Femmes Actantes where she is the Secretary and in September 2021, she was involved in the setting up of the Cameroonian Feminist Coordination that brings together several Cameroonian feminist associations.
Feminist Life Motto: "Together We Cry, Together We Fight, Together We Win!"
Yvette Kathurima (kenya) | Twitter: @wamburay
Yvette is a feminist with over 13 years’ experience in programming on women’s and girls’ rights, having worked at Girls Not Brides, FEMNET, IPPF Africa Region, and as a consultant.
Having ventured into philanthropy over the past year, Yvette firmly believes in facilitating resources so that they go where they are most needed and seeks to advance access and control of these resources by Black women. She is skilled in advocacy, resource mobilisation, grant management, coordination of regional networks and meeting facilitation.
Yvette has worked tirelessly to amplify and include the voices of African women on the global development agenda, and to bring about the local-level changes needed for all women and girls to fulfill their potential. She is excited to join Eyala at this critical period of rebirth where conversations on our positioning, potential and subsequent action can be further explored.
Feminist Life Motto: I do not come to you by chance - your journey and mine were predestined to reveal what has been hidden from the past, change the present and imagine a better future for women and girls.