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Title: | African Renaissance: Where Are the Women? |
Author: | Msimang, Sisonke |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity |
Issue: | 44 |
Pages: | 67-83 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | gender relations politics Development and Technology Sex Roles |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10130950.2000.9675836 |
Abstract: | To a large extent, postliberation conversations about national identity in South Africa remain dominated by questions of race. It is race, not gender, that is at the heart of national identity. In the same way, gender, does not carry the same cultural currency as race in Thabo Mbeki's articulation of the African Renaissance. Instead, Thabo Mbeki's African Renaissance offers a vast, numbing silence when it comes to analyses of gender oppression. To understand this silence the present author explores the story of the African Renaissance from its very roots in contemporary South African politics to its current status as a broad Africanist, nationalist-inspired political philosophy. While reclaiming the humanity of Africans in response to colonialism and racism, the African Renaissance fails to take gender into account. This shortsightedness has serious implications for the potential of the Renaissance to impact on African women's lives. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |