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Contested Encounters: Toward a Twenty-First-Century African Feminist Ethnography

Selina Makana
Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 361–375.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7176516
Published: 01 November 2018
... African women Angola feminist methodologies On a sunny Friday morning in mid-September, three security guards usher me into the National Assembly building in Luanda, the capital city of Angola. I confidently greet them in Portuguese. Two of the three security guards smile and try to make small talk...
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Gender and (Militarized) Secessionist Movements in Africa: An African Feminist’s Reflections

Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 338–358.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7176483
Published: 01 November 2018
...-dominated secessionist movements in order to garner their own social and political power. Using case studies from Anglophone Cameroon, Western Sahara, Cabinda Province (Angola), and Biafra (Nigeria), the essay historicizes and outlines a new analytical framework that explores women’s multifaceted...
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Motherhood as Activism in the Angolan People’s War, 1961–1975

Selina Makana
Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 353–381.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.2.04
Published: 01 March 2017
... site in mid-twentieth century Angola. 354 MERIDIANS 15 2 It captures the salience of women's activism through motherhood as a conduit for the construction of women's national belonging during this period. In retelling the armed struggle as a mother's struggle, I underscore the point that as patriotic...
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Towards a Black Feminist Model of Black Atlantic Liberation: Remembering Beatriz Nascimento

Christen Anne Smith
Meridians (2016) 14 (2): 71–87.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.14.2.06
Published: 01 September 2016
... encampment (Lopes 1995). It refers to the warrior camps of the Imbangala in the region of Angola during the Portuguese mercantile era. Quilomboasre simultaneously places of escape and refuge and war encampments. For decades Black Brazilian scholar-activists have looked to the liberation model...
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Redefining the Terms: Putting South African Women on Democracy's Agenda

Leslie Hill
Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 113–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2004-4.2.113
Published: 01 March 2004
... and in debates in international meetings with feminists who challenged the absence of women's rights on the national liberation platform. Conversations with African feminists who had fought in Angola's and Zimbabwe's wars ofliberation only to be marginalized in INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS 115 state...
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African Feminisms: Cartographies for the Twenty-First Century

Alicia C. Decker, Gabeba Baderoon
Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 219–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7176384
Published: 01 November 2018
... it means for women whose realities diverge and divide to grasp onto “the single holding thread: the warmth of sisterhood.” Selina Makana thoughtfully reflects upon the predicaments and promises of African feminist ethnography. Makana is a Kenyan scholar who researches women and war in Angola...
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Matter and Memory: Black Feminist Poetics and Performance in Berlin, Germany

Ayasha Guerin
Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 115–145.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-10220513
Published: 01 April 2023
... 1993 : 50–51). In “East Berlin 1989,” Lorde remembers walking Berlin streets that were familiar to her with new fear, archiving Black anxieties about moving through public spaces after the lynching of Amadeu Antonio Kiowa, a contract worker from Angola, who was beaten on the street by a gang of neo...
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Becoming Postcolonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship

Patricia McFadden
Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2005-6.1.1
Published: 01 September 2005
... it became trapped in the conflict within the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where it vied with the equally determined ruling classes of Rwanda, Uganda, and Angola over the immense wealth of that wretched country-thereby adding to the already explosive mix of unresolved national issues in Zimbabwe...
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African Feminist Scholars in Women's Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of Women

Josephine Beoku-Betts, Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi
Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 113–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/MER.2005-6.1.113
Published: 01 September 2005
...-nationalist revivalism" (1997, 31). Yetin the case of Africa, Amina Mama (1996) points out that there were examples of African feminist consciousness prior to colonialism (Amina ofZazzau and Queen Zinga of Angola are famous instances). However, the imposition of 116 JOSEPHINE BEOKU-BETTS AND WAI RI MU...
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Afro-Latina Disidentification and Bridging: Lourdes Casal’s Critical Race Theory

Laura Lomas
Meridians (2022) 21 (1): 123–154.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15366936-9554101
Published: 01 April 2022
... . Casal Lourdes , and Pérez-Stable Marifeli . 1976 . “ Sobre Angola y los negros de Cuba .” Areíto 3 , no. 1 : 32 – 33 . Casal Lourdes , and Prohías Rafael J. . 1980 . The Cuban Minority in the US: Preliminary Report on Need Identification and Program Evaluation . Boca...
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