Kebetkache Women’s Development and Resource Centre (Kebetkache)
Nigeria, Africa’s biggest oil producer, is feeding the rapacious global demand for fossil fuels — and destroying the planet and people’s lives as a result. Women and gender nonconforming people of the Niger Delta are some of the hardest hit, but they’re not taking the situation quietly. Kebetkache has brought them together to build real, grassroots feminist solutions.
Kebetkache Women’s Development and Resource Centre (Kebetkache) serves as a community action, education, and advocacy group in Nigeria. It fights for grassroots feminism and environmental justice in the Niger Delta, where poverty is highly feminized and the waters have been poisoned by oil and gas companies. By addressing gender inequalities and building up women and gender nonconforming people’s leadership, they are building healthier and stronger communities.
The movement brings women and gender nonconforming people into their capacity building, research, awareness raising, and media outreach. Kebetkache also provides psychosocial support to their members, including through leading healing sessions and retreats for survivors of gender-based violence and trauma. Through partnerships with other organizations such as HOMEF, Kebetkache is helping to build a regional climate justice network and adapted the curriculum of the feminist economy as a political project for the sustainability of life that can support the needs of women and gender nonconforming people in the Niger Delta.
In Nigeria, white supremacy, racialized capitalism, and heteropatriarchy infiltrate all areas of people’s lives, deepening the inequalities left over from colonialism. Kebetkache is providing necessary space and solidarity in the fight against these systemic oppressions.
