Writer and curator, as well as one of my colleagues/dear friends/partners in crime, Kathryn Buford, recently interviewed me for her ‘Plantain and Porridge’ series on the TRUE AFRICA platform. The feature was about African feminism, which we spoke in-depth about but we discussed a bunch of other stuff too. Many thanks to Kathryn for the brilliant, fun and engaging questions, I…
Archives for February 2016
Tradition is the key challenge for African feminists in the 21st century
In the 1960s, an anticolonial political and military group in Angola, the MPLA (Movement for the Popular Liberation of Angola), began an intensive guerrilla warfare campaign against the Portuguese. The MPLA were a determined army whose efforts forced Portuguese resettlement. The MPLA was also a dual gender army. And with both men and women fighting…