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Uganda

Josephine Ahikire is a Ugandan academic, researcher and African feminist. She is the professor, and the former Dean at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University.

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Choosing to name ourselves feminists places us in a clear ideological position.

By naming ourselves as feminists we politicise the struggle for women's rights.

We recognise that the work of fighting for women's rights is deeply political, and the process of naming is political too.

We question the legitimacy of the structures that keep women subjugated.

The need for African realities to inform research and knowledge generation on gender relations on the continent.

Gender studies comes into the intellectual space as a critique of dominant frameworks of knowledge that presented and reproduced the androcentric or male view of the world.

There is a wave of resistance, seemingly subtle, that seems to be pushing back feminist gains that we need to be aware of.

We have multiple and varied identities as African feminists.

The critical need for debunking colonial discourses and developmentalist buzzwords in researching gender relations.

Our feminist identity is not qualified with 'ifs', 'buts' or 'howevers'. We are Feminists. Full stop.

We are African women – we live here in Africa and even when we live elsewhere, our focus is on the lives of African women on the continent.

We are Feminists. Full stop.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Josephine Ahikire (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.