‘African Feminism III’

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EDITORIAL:
African feminisms in exile: diasporan transnational and transgressive
Guest editor, M BAHATI KUUMBA introduces the issue.

Colonialism, dysfunction and disjuncture: Sarah Bartmann’s resistance (remix)
How do you survive, resist and revolute in a country not your own? How do you cope with displacement and alienation while creating a meaningful life for yourself and your children asks YVETTE ABRAHAMS? She responds to these questions through telling a story about Sarah Bartmann.

POETRY:
A libation for Sakia
Kim Pearson


 
African feminist discourse: a review essay
BEVERLY GUY-SHEFTALL writes of the richness and complexity of African feminist politics

Issues and challenges of Caribbean feminisms
An edited version of a speech presented by DR EUDINE BARRITEAU, at the Inaugural Workshop on ‘Recentring Caribbean Feminisms’ held at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus in Barbados, on June 17, 2002. This workshop was an activity of the Caribbean Feminism Project, the first multidisciplinary academic programme in the Commonwealth Caribbean to begin the epistemological task of centring research on Caribbean women to analyse their lies and multiple, contradictory experiences.

Second wave Black Feminism in the African diaspora: news from new scholarship:
The legacy of Black feminists’ organizing, agitating and speaking truth to power has been underplayed, obscured or simply ignored until relatively recently, writes BENITA ROTH

Contesting the costs of belonging: a global Black feminisms seminar at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia:
MONA PHILLIPS  reports on a conference held at Spelman College.

POETRY:
Untitled
I. Ryta

Postcolonial feminisms speaking through an ‘accented’ cinema:
the construction of Indian women in the films of Mira Nair and Deepa Metha Diasporic films can be described as engaging in dialogue between the home and host societies of the filmmakers, writes SUBESHINI MOODLEY.  Through an examination of the films of Mira Nair and Deepa Metha, she proposes a framework for the support of a potential postcolonial feminist film practice

POETRY:
Their Voices Drawing her
Sharan Strange

Latter-day emancipation! Woman, dance and healing in Jamaican dancehall culture:
BETH-SARAH WRIGHT reflects on the potential for healing that women’s dance and performance in Jamaican dancehalls holds 'But once they are organised, you can never stop them’: 1950s Black women in Montgomery and Johannesburg defy men and the state.

PAM BROOKS looks at women’s resistance in South Africa and Alabama, United States in the ‘50s. She writes that women’s voices and experiences bring new insight into the nature of the struggles that took place.

Feminism (singular), African feminisms (plural) and the African Diaspora:
Western feminism cannot exist without African feminism, writes OSHADI MANGENA. She writes that the liberation of African women in the diaspora is inextricably linked to the liberation of women in Africa

Migration, trafficking and the African woman:
PATIENCE ELABOR-IDEMUDIA  highlights the African dimension of trafficking, focusing particularly on the experiences of Nigerian trafficked women.

Women in African colonial histories:
DOREEN NAKASAGA LWANGA reviews ‘Women in African Colonial Histories’ .