The Legacy, Leadership, and Hope of Pan-African Women of Faith in Building Sustainable Just Communities as a Missional Focus

While African women in film have distinct histories and trajectories, at the same time they have common goals and objectives. Hence, “African women in film” is a concept, an idea, with a shared story and path. While there has always been the hope of creating national cinemas, even the very notion of African cinema(s) in the plural has been pan-African since its early history. And women have taken part in the formation of an African cinema infrastructure from the beginning. The emergence of an “African women in cinema movement” developed from this larger picture. The boundaries of women’s work extend to the global African diaspora. Language, geography, and colonial legacies add to the complexity of African cinema history. Women have drawn from the richness that this multiplicity offers, contributing on local, national, continental, and global levels as practitioners, activists, cultural producers, and stakeholders.

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‘Mama I Can’t Breathe!’: Black/African Women of Faith Groaning for Social Justice and Gender Equality

Mission Studies ◽

10.1163/15733831-12341813 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 38 (3) ◽

pp. 448-469

Author(s):

Damaris Parsitau ◽

Esther Mombo ◽

Ini Dorcas Dah ◽

Tatiana Wairimu Gitonga

Keyword(s):

Social Justice ◽

Gender Equality ◽

Slave Trade ◽

Police Brutality ◽

African Women ◽

Black African ◽

Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽

And Gender ◽

The Church ◽

Women Of Faith

Abstract This article explores some residual entanglements of colonialism, Christianity, and Afro-western engagement in Africa by using the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police and his cries for “breath” and “mama” as a framework for examining the following. First, we argue that one way in which the repercussions of the transatlantic slave trade remain evident in Africa is the continued police brutality and dehumanization of African citizens. Secondly, with the invocation of “mama,” we consider the plight of African women and colonial/postcolonial Christianity, challenging the African church’s silence on social justice issues, and complicity in the exclusion/oppression of women. We call the church to reckon with its silence, and we offer a corrective towards constructing a theological and missiological response to our cries for breath. While this article is based on African feminist reflections, it invites global participation and indicates wider implications for social and gendered justice.

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Statement by the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa on the Occasion of Pan-African Women�s Day - 31 July 2014

Human Rights Documents online ◽

10.1163/2210-7975_hrd-5133-2014030 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

African Women ◽

Special Rapporteur ◽

Pan African

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Sacred Earth and African Women’s Theology

AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GENDER AND RELIGION ◽

10.14426/ajgr.v27i1.81 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Sophia Chirongoma ◽

Sue Rakoczy

Keyword(s):

Global Warming ◽

African Women ◽

Special Issue ◽

Conference Call ◽

University Of Botswana ◽

The Earth ◽

Pan African ◽

Academic Publications ◽

The University ◽

Mother Earth

This special issue is one of the nine academic publications emerging from the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians’ (the Circle) Fifth Pan-African Conference, held at the University of Botswana (Gaborone), July 2-5, 2019. The conference was also a commemoration of the Circle’s thirty years of existence. It featured papers on some aspects of the theme, “Mother Earth and Mother Africa in Theological/Religious/Cultural/Philosophical Imagination.” As was noted in the Conference Call for Papers:The land is often constructed as female gendered and the oppression of women is interlinked with the oppression of the Earth; and…it is widely acknowledged that we live in the era of global warming - which is humanly induced and of which many have also linked with anthropocentric religious/cultural/theological perspectives.

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