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Sylvia Tamale Quotes

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Sylvia Rosila Tamale is a Ugandan academic, and human rights activist in Uganda. She was the first woman dean in the law faculty at Makerere University, Uganda.

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I believe in a just a fair world, where I am not subservient to another because we differ in color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age.

Our feminism is not qualified by the "Buts ,Ifs Or However" ..You are either a feminist or you are not.

Now, never underestimate the power of the mind. What African futurism does is harness that power into action. It empowers us to craft the future that we want.

Definitely. I think African futurism and the interdisciplinary genre and movement hold a lot of promise for the imaginaries of our people.

Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra, but first it needs a decolonial break from the tether that ties its economies to the global capitalist market.

Colonialism maintains a stranglehold on knowledge production through an elaborate publication infrastructure largely based in the global North...[to] gatekeep what qualifies as "legitimate" publishable knowledge.

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