Introduction
This issue focuses on pan-African feminist popular education in Global Africa as a liberatory force for women. Our intention is to contribute to the documentation of both historical and contemporary practices of pan-African feminist popular education.The issue is inspired by long-standing, often undocumented, practices of popular education in Pan-African and Feminist movements.The contributions in this issue actively engage African women on questions of power, patriarchy, pan-Africanism, class consciousness, and women’s rights and dignity in Africa. They contribute to our collective archiving efforts that document historical and ongoing experiments with pan-African feminist popular education. By focusing on contemporary practices while tracing historical genealogies, the work presented in this issue reveals the often invisible intellectual and political work of African women who have been active in popular education.The issue, therefore, underscores the importance of feminist approaches to popular education and women’s conscientisation. It demonstrates that popular education is crucial in addressing our society’s multiple crises and challenges. The development of a critical and active citizenry is essential for challenging those in power who continue to implement harmful and anti-women, anti-poor policies.
Popular education in Global Africa has been tied to the pan-African and African feminist movements. At the pan-African level, this education emphasises the unification and liberation of Africa and African people including women (Tsikata 2014). For feminists, it foregrounds and seeks to undo women’s oppres- sion and marginalisation and reflects on gender equity. It, therefore, stresses the need to build a different and just world where women, and African women in particular, are not on the margins, but also occupy the centre.
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