Therefore, Vavagaa packages feminist knowledge and information with freshness and diversity of content and mobilizes large audiences, audience feedback, and generating interest and participation among diverse groups of women’s rights activists at national and grassroots levels to become news producers and users.
The show first started just as an online talk show, then expanded to add a Vavagaa Kiswahili zoom series that runs biweekly, Clubhouse every saturdays , we are starting Vavagaa Mtaani, and Vavagaa zoom English for English-speaking audiences in the region and beyond. Vavagaa among other interventions within the multimedia Feminist Archive (Kastoria Kavazi) aims at generating content that addresses and moderates public discourse around the root cause of gender inequality by using everyday experiences, voices, and images.
The show/space encourages and welcomes feminist, non-feminist, anti-feminist, religious leaders, and all groups, and the purpose is to ensure we have a broad range of perspectives on gender equality issues and movement building. Also to translate
women’s agency and collective efforts to transform social and gender relation, empower women and girls, and internalize feminist solidarity, self-care, nurturing, and wellness in our praxis as feminist activists to share our own stories, experiences,