African Feminism Past and Present

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"On February 18th I lost my grand aunt - my grandmother really ... This incredible woman, May Kyomugasho Katebaka left us at the age of 97. We last met in 2014 when I visited her. She's a fierce woman. Fierce in her religion but also fierce in her knowledge of what she wanted from the world. And that is what moves me. Moves every time one claims feminism is foreign and for the educated, un-african. She always came to mind when I met such arguments. I would tell myself that if only they could hear half her life story, then they would understand why I am such a rebellion." - Rosebell Kagumire ( https://rosebellkagumire.com/)

"Today as ever, African female activists are reshaping not just African feminist agendas but global ones as well," wrote scholar Aili Mari Tripp in a March 8 article published in African Arguments. But this was only a small sample of articles and web features that have recently appeared highlighting different aspects of "African feminism(s)," as well as a host of new books by both famous and relatively unknown authors.

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