Where is the Money? The limitations of philanthropy and who gets the resources?

The Feminist Bar Podcast · Nov 5, 2026 · 48m

Host Tinatswe Mhaka sits down with Kaata Minah to talk about what donor funding does to feminist organising on the continent. They start with the material reality of what it costs to organise and where the money comes from. They get into how compliance and metrics shape what organisations build, what feminist organisations have to conform to in order to get funded, what “value for money” actually means when applied to political work, and the performance of activism that funding can demand. The conversation closes on how organisations hold on to their politics while depending on donors, and…