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

— Josephine Ahikire

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

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.

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