Conversational Bridges in African Feminisms: Weaving Knowledge Together / Polo B. Moji, Kharnita Mohamed, Aika Swai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moji, Polo B., editor.

Mohamed, Kharnita, editor.

Swai, Aika, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Africa.

Feminism.

Women--Identity--Africa.

Women.

Women and democracy--Africa.

Women and democracy.

Women--Suffrage--Africa.

Genre:

Indexes

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Place of Publication:

HSRC Press, [2025]

Boulder Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2025]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Scholars, activists, and artists come together in this innovative collection to highlight the power of dialogue as a mode of knowledge production in building and sustaining African feminist communities. Their wide-ranging exploration encompasses such diverse topics as geopolitics and its influence on women, sexuality, class, global power struggles, and gender-based violenceresulting in lessons that can be applied far beyond Africa.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of figures

Preface / Sharlene Khan, Lynda Gichanda Spencer

Introduction / Polo B. Moji, Kharnita Mohamed, Aika Swai

PART 1 IN SEARCH OF OUR SHRINES

In search of our shrines

1 Towards a psycho-politics of feminist community: (Re)Imagining care with Mmatshilo Motsei / Peace Kiguwa

2 Art on our mind, art in our hands: Autobiographical storytelling as African feminist praxis / Sharlene Khan, Nono Motlhoki, Sophie Peters

3 Elaine Salos ABC on African feminisms: Epistemic community as a practice of reading together / Koni Benson, Yaliwe Clarke, Lorna Houston, Benita Moolman, Polo B. Moji, Gabeba Baderoon

PART 2 ABUNDANT PEDAGOGIES

Abundant pedagogies

4 Anything but fiction: Black South African womens fiction as theory in And Wrote My Story Anyway / Barbara Boswell, Gogontle Mosiakgabo, Aika Swai

5 Pluriversal epistemic visibility in Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa / Gabeba Baderoon, Nadia Davids, Aika Swai

6 Feminist refusal and the effervescent archives in Women, Visibility and Morality in Kenyan Popular Media / Dina Ligaga, Polo B. Moji

7 Cross-generational work of survival: Sasinda Futhi Siselapha: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africas Twenty-Six Years Since 1994 / Derilene Marco, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Abebe Zegeye, Santi Roman

PART 3 SOLIDARITIES AS BRIDGES

Solidarities as bridges

8 Enraged writing as feminist activism: Bridging the personalpolitical of gendered violence in Female Fear Factory / Pumla Dineo Gqola, Lenina Rassool, Polo B. Moji

9 Transfeminisms in Africa / Robert Hamblin, Landa Mabenge, Sandile Ndelu, Sivgreyson, Hazel Jojo, Kharnita Mohamed

10 Transformative feminist leadership: Solidarity as a politics of care and love / Tlaleng Mofokeng, Pregs Govender, Kharnita Mohamed

Appendix

Contributors

Funding details

Permissions

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed April 14 2026)

ISBN:

0-7969-2713-8

9780796927132