What is happening Nigeria is also happening in Ferguson
This is one of my favorite episodes as a podcaster. Nifemi and I have a discussion about feminism, the power of black women in community, and our favorite feminists.
Afrikana Feminism a course and a movement that Nifemi has determined to be her way to bridge the experiences of feminism across the entire African Diaspora.
As a woman of African descent, Nifemi has always been interested in how to re-theorize feminism; this is why she created Afrikana Feminism, which is not just an online course, but also an experimental movement. Nifemi have always been curious about what other womxn of African descent are organizing, and how to also raise our feminist consciousness through the lives of womxn of African descent like Wangari Maathai, Leymah Gbowee and many more who have engaged in different social movements, but are not widely known. She is starting a dialogue between Black and African feminism(s). She is working to understand what it means to exist in-between particularly being an immigrant and what constitutes the African diaspora. I wanted to raise questions and have conversations with my students about what it means to be Black and African and what Blackness means to people in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt etc. She knows many African feminists from West Africa but was curious to understand how African women were organizing particularly after the Post Arab Spring in North Africa. She also wants to reimagine the framework of Afrikana Feminism and Sustainable Development.
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Here is a list of African Feminists you should check out:
http://yonah.org/channel/african-feminists
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