Hakima Abbas

Hakima Abbas is a political scientist, feminist activist, writer and researcher. In 2016, she became co-executive director of Association for Women's Rights in Development. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, she advocated for an economic recovery plan, the "Just Recovery" that recognizes the impact of the pandemic on girls and women. In 2021, she co-founded the Black Feminist Fund alongside Tynesha McHarris and Amina Doherty; the philanthropic fund is backed, in part by the Ford Foundation. Previously, she was executive director of Fahamu.

She also was an editor of the Queer African Reader (2013) with Sokari Ekine. The book received as an important piece in international was an important contribution to feminist and LGBTQ work in Africa.

Edited works

 * Feminist Africa, Issue 20: Feminism and Pan-Africanism.