“Personally, privately, I do not fear death, but I find myself unwilling to face a sudden and violent ending… Who am I? What am I? In past and in present, the answer lies in Africa; in part it lies within the whole timeless, limitless, eternal universe. How can I discover the meaning and purpose of my country if I do not first discover the meaning and purpose of my own life?” (Bessie Head)
Bessie Head, one of the giants of African philosophy and creativity, chose for herself the title of an autobiography she never wrote: Living on a Horizon.
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Editorial
Researching for Life: Paradigms and Power
Jane Bennett
Features
Transnational What? Encounters and Reflections on Questions of Methodology
- by Hanan Sabea
Researching MSM in South Africa: Some Preliminary Notes from the Frontlines of a Hidden Epidemic
- by Vasu Reddy and Theo Sandfort
Developing Principles for Research about Young Women and Abortion: A Feminist Analysis of Difficulities in Current Studies
- by Catriona Macleod
It was Rocky, Long, Wimding and Twisted
- by Karabo Mohlakoana, National University of Lesotho
Standpoints
Vela Bambhentsele: Intimacies and Complexities in Researching within Black Lesbian Groups in Johannesburg
- by Zethu Matebeni
This Little Rage of Poetry/ Researching Gender and Sexuality
- by Danai S Mupotsa with Lennon Mhishi
In Conversation
"The Room for Questioning is Huge": Jane Bennett speaks with Charmaine Pereira
Profiles
Feeding Freedom's Hunger: Reflections on the Second African Feminist Forum, September 2008
- by Jessica Horn
3 Men Holding 12 Million People Hostage, Feminist Political Education Project
- by Shereen Essof
Reviews
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa.
- reviewed by Sylvia Tamale
Living on a Horizon: Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining
- reviewed by Megan Samuelson
Counting the Costs of Courage: Trauma Experiences of Women Human Rights Defenders in Zimbabwe Report, Women of Zimbabwe Arise.
- reviewed by Cynthia Mugo and Saida Ali
Post-apartheid herstories: Zubeida Jaffer's Our Generation Cape Town. and
Pregs Govender's Love and Courage: A Story of Insubordination
- reviewed by Desiree Lewis