Rethinking Africa: Indigenous Women Reinterpret Southern Africa's Pasts

Abstract

Rethinking Africa: Indigenous Women Reinterpret Southern Africa’s Pasts (2021) edited by Bernedette Muthien and June Bam, is a long-awaited celebration and centering of the voices of indigenous women in feminist activism, knowledge production and theorisation. It speaks evocatively to African feminists’ refusal to be homegenised or for our voices to be submerged, or lost as peripheral to the metropole or a mainstream singular feminist narrative. For the contributors and editors of this important new book, the work of retrieval and recovery and healing it encompasses and is immersed in, is contemplated in the presence of the ancestors, advancing the spirit and endeavour of feminisms into new landscapes and indigenous directions. It urges an engagement with as yet unheard yet prolific herstories that originate from African indigeneity.