Gender based inequality and exclusion of women have proven intractable on the continent despite the proliferation of national and international development initiatives for Africa in the last decades. When so much is done in the name of gender sensitive social inclusion and so little result is felt by the women on the ground, we must ask ourselves: what went wrong? What makes it so difficult to redistribute power and profit to women, who greatly contribute with their sweat and blood to keep the capitalist system running? And what are the challenges for a contemporary African feminist activism to change the picture?