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68 | Feminist Africa 20 Micere Mugo. 2010. A Conversation: Ama Ata Aidoo with Micere Mugo. Interview, Brown University, December 2010. Odamtten, V. O. 1994. The Art of Ama Ata Aidoo. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. Ong, Aihwa. Flexible Citizenship: the Cultural Logics of Transnationality. Durham: Duke UP, 2006. Print. Ngugi wa Thiong’o. 2009. Something Torn and New. New York: Basic Civitas Books. Sassen, Saskia. Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money. New York: New, 1998. Print. Wilson-Tagoe, N. 2007. “Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National Culture”, in Cole, C. M., Manuh, T. and Miescher, S. F. eds. 2007. Africa after Gender? Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Feature article | 69 Archives and Collective Memories: Searching for African women in the pan-African imaginary 1 Brenda Nyandiko Sanya and Anne Namatsi Lutomia Introduction In July 1985, Nairobi hosted a meeting of over 14,000 women at the United Nations’ Third World Conference on Women. 2 Domestic and international women’s rights activists held a concurrent meeting, dubbed Forum 85. Organised by non-governmental organisations, Forum 85 served as a space for activists to oppose capitalist exploitation, patriarchal subjugation and racist oppression, and to build coalitions and develop more nuanced critical views of patriarchy, capitalism and racism in postcolonial and post-slavery societies. The event brought women from all over the world to Kenya. Notably, African women contributed directly to its planning, an action that resulted in a shift in understandings of power within the global women’s rights movement. Scholars and activists who were present spoke about Nairobi as momentous not only because “it was here, unfettered by formal responsibilities, that feminists openly expressed ideas, analysed experiences, and set forth expectations for the future” (O’Barr et al, 1986: 584), but also because of the inclusion of women from Kenya and the African continent. The forum was significant, too, for the embrace of transnational black feminist frameworks, and for disrupting (if only momentarily) the notion that women’s roles in national building were solely domestic and reproductive. Yet whereas Kenyan women were central thirty years ago in championing global discourses and strategies towards gender justice and equity, there is limited archival documentation and scholarship specifically about feminism in Kenya. Some scholars have been able to excavate Kenyan women’s histories and to thereby consider questions of gender politics and agency: scholars such as Kanogo (1987), writing on the Mau Mau Rebellion, Shaw (1995), studying gender, class and racial issues in Kenya, and Hay (1976), who
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