Decolonization and Afro-feminism / Sylvia Tamale.

  • Tamale, Sylvia
Date:
[2020]
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Decolonisation and Afro-feminism

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"Why do so many Africans believe they cannot break the "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" cycle? Six decades after colonial flags were lowered and African countries gained formal independence, the continent struggles to free itself from the deep legacies of colonialism, imperialism and patriarchy. Many intellectuals, politicians, feminists and other activists, eager to contribute to Africa's liberation, have frustratingly, felt like they took the wrong path. Analyzed through the eyes of Afro-Feminism, this book revisits some of the fundamental preconditions needed for radical transformation. It challenges the traditional human rights paradigm and its concomitant idea of "gender equality", flagging instead, the African philosphy of Ubuntu as a serious alternative for reinvigorating African notions of social justice. If you are a student of Africa or in a space where you wish to recalibrate your compass and reboot your consciousness in the strugge for Africa's liberation, this book is for you." -- Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Ottawa : Daraja Press, [2020]

Physical description

xiv, 264 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents

Acknowledgments -- Some key definitions -- 1. Introduction -- Of counter-narratives -- The meaning of Africa(ns) -- Goals and organization of the book -- 2. The basics of decolonization and decolonial futures -- Africa's decolonization and decolonial reconstruction -- Decolonization & decoloniality : Science fiction or present fact? -- A two-pronged approach : The political and the psychological -- 3. Feminists and the struggle for Africa's decolonial reconstruction -- Gender studies in African academies -- Beyond racism : Multiple inequalities and intersectionality -- Integrating Afro-ecofeminism into decolonialization -- 4. Challenging the coloniality of sex, gender and sexuality -- Michael Phelps and Caster Semenya : A juxtaposition -- Decolonial African sex / gender systems -- A decolonial analysis of the Phelps / Semenya conundrum -- Medico-legal taxonomies : Semenya's battle with science and the law -- 5. Legal pluralism and decolonial feminism -- State "customary law" versus living customary law -- Decolonized customary law -- Gender and religious relativism -- 6. Repositioning the dominant discourses on rights and social justice -- Human? Rights? -- Unpacking the universalizing essentialism of "gender equality" -- Reconceptualizing justice through Ubuntu -- 7. Rethinking the African academy -- History and evolution of African academies -- Internalized colonialism : How it is achieved -- A framework for transforming the African academy -- 8. Decolonizing family law : The case of Uganda -- Conceptualizing the heteropatriarchal family -- The Ugandan family and the law -- Family relations : Then and now -- Challenging the status quo -- The limits of officialist approaches to family gender justice -- 9. Towards feminist Pan-Africanism and Pan-African feminism -- Feminism in the Pan-African Movement? -- Pan-Africanism in African feminism -- Developing a new Pan-Africanism in the era of globalization -- Epilogue : Decolonizing Africa in the age of big data -- Index.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9781988832494
  • 1988832497