feminism

Question 1

What does Salami call the period in history when there was no feminism?

Answer 1

Protofeminism

Salami refers to this as the ‘feminine void’—’a time when feminism was absent or denied in African historical narratives.

Question 2

List the three motives that inspired the emergence of African feminism.

Answer 2

• Colonial legacy & its impact on women.
• Patriarchy and gender oppression in African societies.
• Exclusion of African voices in global feminist discourse.

Question 3

Apart from developmental, academic, and cultural African feminism, what are the five subsets of African feminism?

Answer 3

• Liberal African feminism
• Psychoanalytic African feminism
• Postmodern African feminism
• Intersectional and/or Decolonial
• African Ecofeminism

Question 4

True or False: Salami considers African feminism to be a form of epistemic resistance.

Answer 4

True

It challenges dominant (often Western) frameworks & centers African women’s ways of knowing.