by Carmeliza Rosário
Editorial
This Feminist Africa issue challenges dominant gender epistemologies through grounded African perspectives. The outcome of a panel convened at the 2022 World Women’s Conference in Maputo, the issue interrogates the coloniality embedded in global gender discourse and offers decolonial, relational alternatives rooted in local linguistic contexts, kinship structures, and socio- historical specificities. The contributions, which range from the ethnographic to the conceptual and the political, reject universalised readings of gender and highlight instead the diverse ways in which African feminist scholars and communities understand and live gendered realities. We centre African epistemologies both as critique and as propositions for rethinking what gender means, what it conceals, and what it could become. In doing so, we offer a reflexive framing while calling for an expansion of the feminist spaces that listen to, and learn from, the pluralities of African knowledge.
Keywords: African feminist epistemologies, African gender queering, colonial decentring, relationality, seniority
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