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108 | Feminist Africa 20 It is a widespread critique that South Africa has one of the most progressive constitutions in the world yet is also notorious for crime, inequality and gender-based violence. Portraying the women in her research as neither victims nor heroines, Kihato’s work is situated within the broader context of systemic problems in South Africa that require urgent redress. Migrant Women of Johannesburg is a timely, relevant and significant work that positions marginalised migrant black African women as a group whose rights must not be ignored in the spirit of upholding universal and indivisible human rights, pan-Africanism and calls for a 21st century African Renaissance. References Barnes, T. 1999. We women worked so hard: Gender, urbanisation and social reproduction in colonial Harare, Zimbabwe, 1930-1956. Portsmouth, NH Belinda, B. 1998. Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-83 (Social History of Africa). Martlesham , UK. James Currey Kihato, W. C. 2013. Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday life in an In-Between City. Johannesburg: South Africa. Wits University Press. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-86814-755-7 (print).
Review | 109 In Idi Amin’s Shadow: Women, Gender and Militarism in Uganda. Alicia C Decker, 2014, Athen, Ohio, Ohio University Press Gabeba Baderoon Like all good feminist works, In Idi Amin’s Shadow starts by refusing conventional wisdom – which is that Idi Amin Dada was a singular and sociopathic man, whose military rule in Uganda therefore is exceptional and has no meaning outside of that country and that period. Instead, Alicia Decker uses this part of Ugandan history to craft an insightful theory of militarism and the gendered dynamics that drive it and are its legacy. Through a painstaking and comprehensive case study of Uganda under the military rule of Idi Amin from 1971 to 1979, she focuses on the way militarism constitutes powerful norms of masculinity and femininity. She also demonstrates that Amin’s militarism had a history, politics and culture that preceded it and grew out of the British colonial occupation in West Nile, and the use by Britain of its African colonial armies in brutal wars in Egypt, Sudan, and Kenya. The formation of the state of Uganda from this complex colonial history means that Amin’s capture of the country through a military coup in 1971 and the progressive infiltration of militarism into the whole of Ugandan society from 1971 to 1979, as well as its lingering consequences, is made much more explicable. Indeed, we are left with the urgent question of how this case study of militarism in Uganda in the 1970s allows us to understand the transnational phenomenon of militarism today. Into this history, a detailed and vividly rendered world is filled out and given life by the experiences of women and others rendered invisible by patriarchy and military violence. The intuition that marginalised people – those whose position forces them into the shadows of dominant society – generate knowledge that provides a fuller and more accurate picture of history, and therefore of its lessons, is fully realised here, through interviews with over 100 women and dozens of men who lived through the 8 years of
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