The Personal Is the International: For Black Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn't Enough

A Socio-Historical Approach to Regional Organizational Relations?

“…The mainstream logic contrasts with the organizational logic that has emerged in SADC, which reveals African agency as a multidimensional, dynamic phenomenon that can be traced from the socio-history of transformation from political to multi-layered forms of regional organizational relations. The article does not seek to essentialize non-state organizational relations in regional IR thinking but, drawing on Paul-Henri Bischoff, Kwesi Aning, and Amitav Acharya (2016), Siphokazi Magadla (2013)and Heidi Hudson (2016)'s works, engages with mainstream assumptions to shed light on their limitations by uncovering African non-state agency outside, alongside and within state intergovernmental regional spaces in the SADC.…”

“…These NGOs seek to address multiple gender insecurities through initiating, selecting, and developing norms and policies on gender-based violence, gender and the media, women, law and development, gender and climate change, gender and healthcare, gender and HIV and AIDS, sexual reproductive health rights, women and economic justice, women and human rights and LGBTQ+ issues (Morna,Makamure,2 Several significant works in African women's scholarship challenge binary and body logics, such as Oyèwùmí (1997), Nzegwu (1998), and Magadla, Magoqwana, and Motsemme (2021). Magadla (2013) contends that the discourse of International Relations (IR) should prioritise the voices of African women, communities, and indigenous societal actors. Similarly, Hudson (2016) underscores the active agency of women in Africa's international politics, a dimension frequently overlooked.…”