Yumba Bernadette Kakhobwe is a doctoral researcher in the Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa (SRRA) programme. She is the co-editor of the Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Africa (SRRA) Digest and tutor for the MPhil/LLM SRRA programme. She is an alumna of the same programme, and also holds a Master’s degree in Gender Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Ms Kakhobwe has an interest in gender-based violence, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights, child marriage, and female genital mutilation/cutting using human rights and decolonial feminist approaches.