“If We Stayed at Home, Nothing Would Change”: Gendered Acts of Citizenship From Mozambique and Pakistan

This article investigates how women emerged as political subjects through protests in two post-colonial contexts: the Hazara women’s protests in Pakistan against ethno-sectarian killings and the Chiango women’s protests in Mozambique for road safety. Privileging the perspectives of two...

Ayesha Khan

Katia Taela

Learning from Entrepreneurship Programming for Women’s Economic Empowerment

MUVA Paper Series 3

MUVA is a social incubator dedicated to developing innovative approaches to the economic empowerment of women in Mozambique. This paper documents experiences from two MUVA projects supporting women’s economic empowerment through entrepreneurship, and draws out broader insights and principles...

Jodie Thorpe & 5 others

Shaping Social Change with Music in Maputo, Mozambique

IDS Policy Briefing;173

In Mozambique, development programmes have traditionally drawn on music as a means to promote social transformation by educating citizens on key social development issues. Shifting the focus from music as a teaching medium to music as a rich source of information can provide vital insights into...

Alternative Expressions of Citizen Voices: The Protest Song and Popular Engagements with the Mozambican State

IDS Working Paper;541

This study examines Mozambican popular music to investigate three questions on empowerment and accountability. Our focus is on the protest song, conceived as those musical products that are concerned with public affairs, particularly public policy and how it affects citizens’ social, political...