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The Emancipation of Women in Africa Using African Decolonial Feminism

The Emancipation of Women in Africa Using African Decolonial Feminism

William Chakabwata
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781668497210|ISBN10: 1668497212|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781668497227|EISBN13: 9781668497234
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9721-0.ch015
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Chakabwata, William. "The Emancipation of Women in Africa Using African Decolonial Feminism." Women Empowerment and the Feminist Agenda in Africa, edited by Maxwell Constantine Chando Musingafi and Chipo Hungwe, IGI Global, 2023, pp. 243-258. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-9721-0.ch015

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Chakabwata, W. (2023). The Emancipation of Women in Africa Using African Decolonial Feminism. In M. Musingafi & C. Hungwe (Eds.), Women Empowerment and the Feminist Agenda in Africa (pp. 243-258). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-9721-0.ch015

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Chakabwata, William. "The Emancipation of Women in Africa Using African Decolonial Feminism." In Women Empowerment and the Feminist Agenda in Africa, edited by Maxwell Constantine Chando Musingafi and Chipo Hungwe, 243-258. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-9721-0.ch015

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Abstract

Numerous feminist ideologies were conceived in the west with a purported goal of liberating women globally. Decolonial scholars have questioned the association of feminists from the west with colonialism and the attendant privileges they secured from it. Skeptics of traditional feminism have questioned its Eurocentric presupposition to liberate women universally and now advocate decolonial feminism as an alternative due to the way it seeks to disentangle Africa, from the shackles of global capitalism, racism, and gendered relations. Africa today is beset with numerous challenges such as a growing young population which is unemployed, climate change, authoritarian political systems, and unequal trade relations between the Global North and the Global South. Europe has also taken advantage of its control over knowledge production to maintain a stranglehold on Africa. It is within this context that decolonial feminism, advocacy that Africa must fight for the emancipation of women, taking into account all the dominant forces of oppression holding the continent and its people backward.

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