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African feminist, writer, and scholar Obioma Nnaemeka defines the term "Nego-feminism" in her article Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa's Way." She writes, "Nego-feminism is the feminism of negotiation; second, nego-feminism stands for 'no ego' feminism and is structured by cultural imperatives and modulated by ...
Listening to the Voices of Black Feminism (1997, with many others) Gender, culture and empire-European women in colonial Nigeria (Book review, 1991) Africa on my mind: Gender, counter discourse and African-American nationalism (1990) Women in sub-Saharan Africa: restoring women to history (1990, with I Berger and C Skidmore-Hess) The ...
Feminist Africa is a peer-reviewed academic journal that addresses feminist topics from an "African continental perspective". [1] It is published by the African Gender Institute (University of Cape Town). [2] Its founding editor-in-chief is Amina Mama (Mills College and University of California, Davis). [3]
According to a Global Gender Gap Index [1] report published in 2018, it would take 135 years to close the gender gap in Sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 153 years in North Africa. While much more is known about the effects of colonialism on all African people, less is known about the impacts of colonialism on specifically women.
March is Women's History Month, meaning there's no better time to read (or reread) an incredible feminist book. From foundational texts by Audre...
The book was translated into English in 1986 under the title Speak out, Black sisters, Feminism and oppression in Black Africa. [6] [8] [9] Following the publication of the book, a call for testimonies and statements by African women, many women authors began to write using the first person in their stories and fictions.
This feminism views sexism as the main oppression and it was mainly led by white individuals who "marginalized the activism and world views of women of color". [242] Women of color and white antiracist women clarify the rise of multiracial feminism through telling the history of the Second Wave feminism.
The AGI grew out of the Equal Opportunities Research Project, created at the University of Cape Town in 1992 as apartheid was ending. The AGI was created in 1996, with the specific goal of advocating for women researchers, policy advocates and writers based within African countries, and with commitment to the growth and voice of African feminisms. [7]