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The whiteness of Afrikaans literary feminism

In (Black Afrikaans poet) Ronelda Kamfer’s collection Chinatown(2019), she criticises canonical Afrikaans white women poets for their implied complicity with apartheid and continued white hegemony within the Afrikaans literary sphere.

Barbara (Bibi) Burger Barbara (Bibi) Burger

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Women in Law: Perspectives Across Africa

The corpus of scholarship from the Global North signal an increasing global feminization of the legal profession.

Jarpa Dawuni Jarpa Dawuni

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‘Maids’ and ‘Madams’ in Caribbean and South African Women’s Texts: Approximations of Feminist Solidarity?

This project engages with the possibility for solidarity between women across differences of race, class and sexuality as it is represented in a range of artistic forms (poetry, fiction and visual images) created by women from the Anglophone Caribbean and South Africa.

Denise deCaires Narain Denise deCaires Narain
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