Abstract
African Feminisms, including Pan-African Feminism, emphasise that there are multiple ways of knowing, and that profound knowledge can emerge from unlikely locations and groups. Popular and informal knowledge-making arises from collective and participatory learning platforms generated by the socially and politically marginalised, with the intention to recognise, value, inspire and challenge each other to grow, transform and find liberation. This paper considers one such intentional online popular education community started in 2020, called the African Feminist Reading Group.This online group has expanded and contracted over the past four years to accommodate African, Scottish and African diasporic women who seek both active and passive communal engagement with African Feminist ideas and the pursuit of Pan-Africanist objectives. We share our experiences of the online reading group to show how African Feminist praxis, in the form of radical care, vulnerability, working with differences, learning from each other, solidarity and collaboration, expands and transforms how and what we know and who we are in relation to each other.
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