In the early 1990s, the Tanzania Media Women’s Association (TAMWA), a civil society organization of women journalists, embarked on a major campaign against gender-based violence. They were “jolted” into action, to quote a special 1992 issue of TAMWA’s feminist Sauti ya Siti magazine, by the death of University of Dar es Salaam student Levina Mukasa on February 7, 1990.

Levina’s picture circulated widely in Tanzanian and Pan-African media in the early 1990s. In its 1992 special issue of Sauti ya Siti about gender-based violence, TAMWA published a drawing of Levina’s picture.

If the photograph symbolized Levina’s tragic death and the problem of violence against women in Tanzania, the illustration would come to symbolize her legacy as the impetus behind a national movement against gender-based violence and would serve as a reminder of the costs of sexual harassment in Tanzanian institutions of higher education.