... the African continent, were the original feminists. In her now classic anthology, The Black Woman Cross-Culturally , Steady argued that “true feminism” stemmed from “an actual experience of oppression, a lack of the socially prescribed means of ensuring one’s wellbeing, and a true lack of access to resources...

... and legal depositions. This is not to ignore the complexity of the relationship between theory and activism and the often fraught debates about theorizing in African contexts. Obioma Nnaemeka’s ( 2003 ) “Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way” offers a bold intervention. “In other...

... feminism as a broad lens through which to examine how these women artists present challenges to patriarchy, gender norms, and the politics of respectability that may or may not align with African feminist ideologies. In addition to resistance, this research examines how these artists use their art...

...Fatima Sadiqi; Aziza Ouguir Abstract Aziza Ouguir talks with Professor Fatima Sadiqi, one of Africa’s most prolific and well-respected feminist scholars, about African feminisms north and south of the Sahara. FS : Today African feminists understand that the self is not singular, but multiple...

... to formulate their own manifesto and ultimately adopt the Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists, which was first published in 2007 simultaneously in English and French. This paper reviews both statements and acknowledges their critical contributions to the evolution of Transnational Feminisms...

... Sinmi . 2011 . “ Beyond an Epistemology of Bread, Butter, Culture and Power: Mapping the African Feminist Movement .” Nokoko 2 : 65 – 89 . Alexander Priscilla . 1997 . “ Feminism, Sex Workers and Human Rights .” In Whores and Other Feminists , edited by Nagle Jill , 83 – 97...

... that have convinced me that the dialectical relationship between theory and praxis remains crucial in the imagining and articulation of a contemporary African feminism, which will be both revolutionary and essential to the making of new realities and life-scapes for us on the continent and beyond. 1...

... devote herself to the uncompromising pursuit of justice, artistic creation, and scholarship. Thus I admit that when Alicia and Gabeba approached Meridians about guest-editing a special issue on African feminisms, the possibility of obliquely honoring both Dr. Mwangis, N’gendo and Wambui, occurred...

...Jude G. Akudinobi Copyright © 2006 by Smith College 2006 JUDE G. AKUDINOBI Durable Dreams DissentC, ritiquea, ndCreativityin FaatKineandMoolaade Introduction Ousmane Sembene's oeuvre, in many ways, grants African feminism a legitimacy ofits own, denying recurrent attempts to fit it within...

..., in 1972, between a young Muslim girl in socialist Bulgaria and African American feminist Angela Davis. This encounter is linked to postsocialist Romani feminisms explicitly rooted in African American women's epistemologies of intersectionality to confront racism and anti-Gypsyism in the European Union...

... from a Black African cosmovision as guiding principles for transformational social practice. In their view, the Blackwomen'ms ovemenits, in reality, the category that defines Black women and their emancipatory struggles. As activist Benilda Paiva argues, the struggle over the category "feminism" sounds...

... women in particular, hair has long been a site for the production of desire, culture, identity, political action, and labor. Therefore, it is not surprising that in AmericanaAhdichie's two modes of African feminisms are most pronounced in the African hair-braiding shop. To begin to understand...

...-definition as a “radicalized” social scientist who sheds light on academic feminism’s blindspots and who applauds the revolutionary recognition of Cuban culture as “Latin-African.” Casal forges decolonial tools for dismantling the master’s house by adapting feminist rhetorical strategies of self-inscription...

... this archival work might be important in creating space for African queers, it fails to engage fully with what it might mean to be both African and queer, in the here and now . So what, if there were no ancestral queers ? What do these archives concretize and block out of queer possibilities? While thinking...

..., that is, the historical, existing, and imagined structures of political power in Nigeria. The following analysis reads Wazobiato articulate a critical feminism knowledgeable about Western modes of critique and reflexive of hierarchies and power differentials in Nigerian, and by extension African, social systems. Feminist...

.... 1995. "The Dawn ofa New Day: Redefining South African Feminism." In TheChallengoef LocalFeminisms:Women'sMovementsin GlobalPerspective,d. Amrita Basu, 131-62. Boulder: Westview Press. Mandela, Nelson. State of the Nation Address. Cape Town, South Africa. on May 24, 1994. African National Congress...

...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Abstract On June 2, 2013, Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind and Mobile Homecoming organized a celebration of the 150 th anniversary of the Combahee River uprising, an epic event organized by Harriet Tubman in which nearly 800 enslaved Africans achieved their freedom...

... a heterosexual nuclear family model that is informed by feminist ideology and takes shape in a twenty-first-century material reality transformed by feminism. Second to this, and in the context of her relationship with her famous African American mother, Walker characterizes the biological (black feminist) mother...

... their voices in the classroom as the presumed voice of authority. African Women and Feminist Discourses Other troubling elements that we have encountered in some women's studies discourses involve the virtual exclusion or absence of African women as knowledge producers in relation to feminism...

.... This fact puts pressure on African feminist researchers because we are not always seen as legitimate scholars. In her interview with Elaine Salo, Amina Mama states, “We have always been part of the early conceptualizations of so-called ‘Western feminism,’ even if not properly acknowledged as such. More...