African Philosophy in Pursuit of an African Renaissance for the True Liberation of African Women

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ID18972754
AutoresSesanti (0000-0003-4546-5218, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, autor correspondente), Simphiwe Sesanti
Ano2016
Volume47
Fascículo6
Páginas479-496
Data de publicação2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Black Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-9347 • E-ISSN: 1552-4566
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021934716645486
OpenAlexW2344026861
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas6

The African liberation struggle fought against two intertwined forces, colonization and colonialism. The former implied physical occupation and dispossession of Africans’ land, while the latter implied destruction of their culture. While “political independence” succeeded in an artificial and superficial sense in granting space for African cultural reclamation, this success presented little or no joy in restoring the dignified space that African women enjoyed in pre-colonial Africa. African women — in spite of the granting of “independence” and “freedom”— continue to be denied their freedom in African communities, and relegated to a second-class citizen status. I argue that if freedom is to have any significant meaning for Africans, it must prioritize the African cultural reclamation that puts African women in the center. This can and will be possible when Africans interrogate African philosophical assumptions about women’s “place” in traditional Africa. A thorough exercise in this regard will assist in giving meaning to an African renaissance that will secure liberation not only for African men but also for women

African philosophy · Colonialism · Independence (probability theory) · Liberation movement · Meaning (existential) · Political freedom · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African cultural and philosophical studies · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices