African feminism is engaged in the project to recoup indigenous knowledge systems and to salvage identities that were destabilised by foreign incursions
Charlotte Maxeke
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Who has the right to memorialise Charlotte Maxeke?
To separate Maxeke from inconvenient narratives is to shortchange her story; participating wholly in the time-old tradition of making women scatter cushions in rooms where decisions are made
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On black excellence: Charlotte Mannya Maxeke
I’ve been reading Zubeida Jaffer’s biography of Charlotte Mannya Maxeke, Beauty of the Heart. I was very excited at the prospect of finally having a book available about a woman who is mostly known through the hospital that is named after her in Johannesburg. Beyond the hospital naming, I doubt she is a household name. […]