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@zubeidajaffer is giving a Masterclass @CWGS_MandelaUni - this is your reminder for #MaxekeMay #afrifem See poster for details.
I promise to live tweet that event. All of this brought to you by the Centre for Women and Gender Studies @CWGS_MandelaUni, Chair in #AfricanFeministImagination, Maxeke Res, Maxeke Inst. from @MandelaUni Join us next Friday for more #MaxekeMay brilliance. See poster for details
#MaxekeMay I have not even begun to live tweet Dr Hlengiwe Ndlovu’s talk as respondent. Phew! We’re going to have to ask her to do a longer talk on her own on the topic of her own work on women’s sublimated radical political histories in SA. Her PhD & several publications on this
#MaxekeMay Sesanti: and 2. allocating themselves the position of perpetual teachers and African women ‘allowed’ to be perpetual students. Yes, mainsplaining but so much more
#MaxekeMay Sesanti: finally, ‘so-called African revolutionary men’ need to do this work too, and 1. need interrogate how they continue to work in traditions that extend these reductions, erasures and invisibilisation of women in ‘traditions political & otherwise
Sesanti’s challenge of rethinking how these roles are read is a serious one. Phew! I’m seriously nerding out #MaxekeMay
Tweeps, a lot of what Sesanti said went over my head as I was live tweeting, listening, trying to formulate a question. Really incredible, challenging paper. Amazing presentation. #MaxekeMay
Sesanti: On importance of reinterrogating this terrain rather than surrendering it to ‘small minded African men’ invested in unimaginative patriarchal agenda. Notices general feminist queasiness to study ‘African culture’ leads to patriarchs successfully weaponising it #MaxekeMay
Sesanti: we romanticise (and fix in patriarchal form) the role of women as storytellers as ‘custodians of African culture’. #Maathai invites to dismiss this ‘custodians’ status ans recognise them as not conduits but knowledge makers. Apply same to symbolic motherhood #MaxekeMay
Sesanti: it becomes important to do more than point to the erasure of women and to recover and defend the existing traditions within which Maxeke stands as Pan Africanist woman leader in activist & intellectual. Recognize her genius without pretending she is an oddity #MaxekeMay
Sesanti cont.: the founding Pan Africanist conference. Yes, the London one. Her erasure from the conference she conceived began immediately: the coverage of her speech in media coverage at the time in summary form vs all men speakers’ speeches rendered in full. #MaxekeMay
Sesanti: thinking re: motherhood & leadership *historically* requires recognition of real mothers’ “right to name” in many African societies. Using this right to name as power + reclaiming t/ erased conceptual leadership of an African woman (didn’t catch name) in ... #MaxekeMay
Sesanti: When we do so & are committed to using Maathai derived definitions of leadership, it becomes impossible to see #Maxeke as *only* inaugurating a tradition. It becomes clear that she works in a long tradition of women leading in key Pan Africanist moments #MaxekeMay
#MaxekeMay Prof Sesanti: what happens when we think about symbolic ‘motherhood’ against the Europatriarchal tradition of silencing? What happens when we trace the very specific ways in which African women’s political leadership is deliberately erased also by African patriarchies?
So, what I tweeted was just a taste of #ThozamaApril’s scintillating Masterclass on #CharlotteMaxeke. #MaxekeMay continues next Friday, same time. I’m tweeting the poster again. Also see @CWGS_MandelaUni TL
#ThozamaApril: important to recoil #CharlotteMaxeke’s work to see how her writing, thinking, activism exceeds the many ways in which she gets contained and her work rendered safe #MaxekeMay
#ThozamaApril: when people’s lives overlap distinct historical epoch is that they create traditions. #Maxeke’s work allows us to reimagine reading strategies so we we need to do more than critique how she is erased. #MaxekeMay
#ThozamaApril: a lot of #CharlotteMaxeke’s archive is not in SA but in the US, including some hard to secure through search engines from here. #MaxekeMay
#ThozamaApril: Maxeke developed arguments on Pan Africanism, African diasporic unity & others, sometimes in conversation with those like Du Bois, who was one of her teachers at Wilberforce #MaxekeMay
In 1892 #CharlotteMaxeke was already arguing for #freeeducation and #ThozamaApril analyses this in #MaxekeMay cc @CWGS_MandelaUni @vuyanipambo @shaeera_k
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