Boikanyo Modungwa speaks with Dr Ramatu Bangura and Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli
It is imperative for those doing social justice work to go through their own personal journeys of liberation. Realising our feminist visions of what our communities and the world could and should be is not possible without these journeys – feminist popular education plays an essential role in sparking and nurturing this journey. In February 2023, Purposeful, an Africa-rooted feminist hub for girls’ organising and activism (headquartered in Sierra Leone) brought together its team for a week of feminist popular education in Ghana.The purpose of this retreat was to provide the team with political grounding, to learn from each other and to reflect collectively upon and interrogate the systems of oppression that define the world we live in.
The retreat was designed and facilitated by two close allies of Purposeful: Dr Ramatu Bangura and Zeedah Meierhofer-Mangeli. This conversation was held with the intention of unearthing, documenting and sharing the importance of holding popular education spaces for teams working on social justice, par- ticularly African feminist organisations. The conversation, held in April 2023, was facilitated and edited for flow and succinctness by Boikanyo Modungwa.
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