Women in Nationalist Struggle: Tanu Activists in Dar es Salaam

Geiger, Susan

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“…Their activities and contributions were diverse and both direct and indirect forms of resistance were played out both within the public and private sphere. They engaged in intelligence work, raising soldiers' morale, served as cooks, porters, nurses, combat trainers, recruiting agents, supported mass rallies and were disseminators of propaganda (Cock 1991;Curnow 2000:36-40;White 2007;Geiger 1987;Presley 1988;Kam Kah 2011). In Uganda resistance to colonial rule saw women engaging in protest marches, drafting and submitting petitions and mobilising across race, ethnicity and class barriers (Tripp & Ntiro 2002:33-35).…”

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Women in Anti - Colonial and Nationalist Movements : A Comparative S tudy of India and South Africa

Hiralal

2017

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Women have been at the forefront of global nationalist movements. In Latin America, Asia and Africa colonialism and its subjugation of men and women inevitably led to the rise of nationalistic fervour. In both South Africa and India women were at the forefront of the struggle challenging gender roles and creating new spaces for their political activism. This paper adopts a gender lens and engages in a comparative approach to document the role and contributions of women in the nationalist and anti-apartheid movement in India and South Africa respectively. It highlights the similarities and differences in terms of their mode of resistance, political agency and mobilisation. More significantly, it documents the challenges and constraints they endured in different geographical settings, in the context of gender, class, race/ethnicity and religion and how it shaped and defined their political activism and consciousness. This article contributes to narratives on gender and nationalism and how regional and continental histories shape and define women's participation and opportunities.

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Section: Modes Of Resistancementioning

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Women in Anti - Colonial and Nationalist Movements : A Comparative S tudy of India and South Africa

Hiralal

2017

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“…Whereas the Women's Section had sought to mobilise women politically, the UWT emphasised the technical improvement of women's lives from above, without their participation. 22 In Tanganikya as elsewhere, the vast majority of women lacked effective political representation; for many, the achievement of independence made little difference in their lives.…”

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Historicising Activism in Late Colonial and Post‐Colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa

Larmer¹

2014

J Historical Sociology

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“…Until recently, women were rarely included in scholarly discussions of African reactions to colonial rule. With few exceptions (Kanogo 1987;Ba 1989;Musisi 1991), most studies now available on the topic have been written by non-Africans and reflect the assumptions of western feminism (Riviere 1968;Dobert 1970;Van Allen 1974;Denzer 1976Denzer , 1981Urdang 1979Urdang ,1984Rogers 1980;Geiger 1982Geiger , 1987Johnson 1982;Mba 1982;O'Barr 1984;Wipper 1985;Cromwell 1986;Presley 1991). As an account by an African woman of the movement for independence in the French Soudan, Femme d'Afrique provides a welcome counterweight to discourse about third-world women by first-world women (Barthel 1975;Robertson 1984;Hay 1988;Staudt 1989).…”

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Aoua Keita and the Nascent Women's Movement in the French Soudan

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1993

African Studies Review

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An intriguing, if little known, autobiography, Femme d'Afrique by Aoua Kéita (1975), is a valuable social document which allows us to reconstruct women's response to the independence movement in the French Soudan (now Mali). This response took the form of a nascent women's movement which emerged under the sponsorship of the Union Soudanaise du Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (USRDA), an anticolonialist political party. Aoua Kéita's career as a pioneering midwife and political militant in the USRDA from 1931 to 1968 spanned the transition from colonial rule to independence in Mali (Morgenthau 1964; Foltz 1965). Until recently, women were rarely included in scholarly discussions of African reactions to colonial rule. With few exceptions (Kanogo 1987; Ba 1989; Musisi 1991), most studies now available on the topic have been written by non-Africans and reflect the assumptions of western feminism (Riviére 1968; Dobert 1970; Van Allen 1974; Denzer 1976, 1981; Urdang 1979,1984; Rogers 1980; Geiger 1982, 1987; Johnson 1982; Mba 1982; O'Barr 1984; Wipper 1985; Cromwell 1986; Presley 1991). As an account by an African woman of the movement for independence in the French Soudan, Femme d'Afrique provides a welcome counterweight to discourse about third-world women by first-world women (Barthel 1975; Robertson 1984; Hay 1988; Staudt 1989).

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Women in Nationalist Struggle: Tanu Activists in Dar es Salaam

Cited by 38 publications

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Women in Anti - Colonial and Nationalist Movements : A Comparative S tudy of India and South Africa

Women in Anti - Colonial and Nationalist Movements : A Comparative S tudy of India and South Africa

Historicising Activism in Late Colonial and Post‐Colonial Sub‐Saharan Africa

Aoua Keita and the Nascent Women's Movement in the French Soudan

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