African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed. (October 2023). “African Women in Digital Spaces: Redefining Social Movements on the Continent and in the Diaspora” Invited by the Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership and the Department of African Studies at Howard University. Book Talk. Washington, D.C. 

Abstract: From Tamale to Paris, Hong Kong to Texas and back to Ouagadougou, this collection of scholarly chapters, poetry and personal essays theorizes the lives of African women and people of marginalized genders on the continent and the diaspora. The book is an important intervention in conversations on social movements and their convergence with digital media and other praxis tools. The contributors bring a refreshing perspective to discourses on African feminists' agency and how this manifests in their organizing in the physical world and in the digital public sphere. The volume demonstrates the relationships between the struggles of African feminists on the continent and the diaspora charting pathways for African scholars to build coalitions and work toward collective liberation.