Intersectionality in African Digital Organizing: A Ghanaian Perspective
Intersectionality in African Digital Organizing: A Ghanaian Perspective
Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed (2023). “Intersectionality in African Digital Organizing: A Ghanaian Perspective.” Communication, Culture & Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcad007
Abstract: Although there is growing scholarship on intersectionality in African feminist movements, there are still gaps in scholarship on intersectionality on the continent when it comes to various identity categories. I examine intersectionality within the Ghanaian context using African feminisms as a backdrop. I argue that to drive African feminisms toward emancipatory praxes, it is imperative to center identity categories that are often erased from feminist conversations and to pay attention to organizing from these margins to amplify the erased narratives about marginalization. I theorize these silenced narratives drawing on my experiences as a Muslim Dagbana woman and my work in African and Ghanaian feminist digital spaces. Here, I focus on ethnicity as an identity category that is often overlooked within feminist discourses in national contexts in Africa. I point to organizing strategies that can facilitate the centering of identities and feminist issues that have historically been pushed to the margins.
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