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92 | Feminist Africa 20<br />
This includes not only the diversity embodied in <strong>and</strong> articulated by<br />
African/black women but also in other feminist intellectuals whose<br />
commitments are similar to our own—Trinh Minh-ha, Ch<strong>and</strong>ra Mohanty,<br />
Gloria Anzaldúa, Purinma Mankekar, <strong>and</strong> so many others.<br />
– Mshaï Mwangola<br />
We learn to see the interruptions as openings <strong>and</strong> leakages, leading in new<br />
directions, or as remnants <strong>and</strong> revenants, returns of the unreconciled. There<br />
are many forms of interruptions, at one extreme of which are the forces<br />
structuring social precarity, displacements, <strong>and</strong> un-homing.<br />
Routes into Memory<br />
—How do we experience these locations as both situations <strong>and</strong><br />
interpolations? How do they impress upon our lives as embodied<br />
persons?<br />
What is it to inhabit a world?<br />
– Veena Das<br />
Discourses of sisterhood <strong>and</strong> “Africa” imbricate us, interpolate us, interpellate<br />
us, call us home to injury. We probe the soft spaces of vulnerability <strong>and</strong><br />
grief, the still-aching losses, separations, dispossessions, dislocations <strong>and</strong><br />
disorientation.<br />
To bear witness<br />
– Mshaï Mwangola<br />
To bear witness<br />
– Meida McNeal<br />
To bear witness<br />
– Renée Alex<strong>and</strong>er Craft<br />
To bear witness<br />
To call up memory, consciously respecting its<br />
power to heal as well as to hurt<br />
– Meccasia E. Zabrinskie
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