AFWID Reports

The launching theme of AfWID 2018 was ‘Strengthening the Continental African Women’s Movement Within the 4th Industrial Revolution Towards a New and Value-based Ecosystem’. It is becoming clear to me that this is likely to become the underlying theme for all our future Forums, which will be driven by the purpose of strengthening the African continental women’s capacity to create a new world, underpinned by values of respect for all creation.of progress into a more cooperative society.

To herald an age when nobody is left behind, as AfWID, we then gestated and delivered an opportunity for women to use their voices as agents of change by articulating in their own voices and languages their personal narratives, challenges, successes, and ideas
of progress into a more cooperative society.

African Women in Dialogue (AWID) is inspired by our own experience as South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID), an inclusive platform of dialogue established in 2003, when more than 1 000 women from all over South Africa gathered at the University of Pretoria to celebrate the achievements of women and the nation since 1994; to identify and address all ongoing challenges; and to envision a post-2004 future.

On 27-31 January 2025, over 1,200 African women gathered in South Africa for African Women in Dialogue (AfWID) 3 – a convergence of stories, struggles, solutions, and sisterhood.