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African Womanism addresses feminism from (1) an African perspective; (2) an African geopolitical location; (3) and an African ideological viewpoint. [17] Womanism is important because it is focused on black women's experiences with culture, colonialism, and many other forms of domination and subjugation that impact African women's lives. [28]
Africana womanism is a term coined in the late 1980s by Clenora Hudson-Weems, [1] intended as an ideology applicable to all women of African descent. It is grounded in African culture and Afrocentrism and focuses on the experiences, struggles, needs, and desires of Africana women of the African diaspora.
Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie (27 December 1940 – 18 June 2019), [1] also known as Molara Ogundipe, was a Nigerian poet, critic, editor, feminist and activist. Considered one of the foremost writers on African feminism, gender studies and literary theory, she was a social critic who came to be recognized as a viable authority on African women among black feminists and feminists in general. [2]
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.
Michele Wallace was one of the founding members of the National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO) established in 1973, to respond to the unique issues faced by African-American women. [1]: 12 Her 1975 article "A Black Feminist's Search For Sisterhood" (1975) was included in But Some of Us Are Brave. [12] Mary Helen Washington; Ora Williams
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.
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí (born 10 November 1957) is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University.She acquired her bachelor's degree in political science [1] at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. [2]
Adelaide Casely-Hayford MBE (née Smith; 2 June 1868 – 24 January 1960), [1] was a Sierra Leone Creole advocate, activist of cultural nationalism, teacher, fiction writer, and feminist. Her commitment to public service led her to improving the conditions of black men and women.