Abstract:This chapter presents indigenous Afro-feminist theories routed in African histories and cultures, largely based on the unhu philosophy including womanism, motherism, stiwanism, nego-feminism, femalism, religious feminism like Islamic feminism, bread and butter feminism, and the contemporary wave of young feminists, among others. At the root of these indigenous Afro-feminist theories is the recognition of the fact that men and women share the world and should therefore share in the joys and suffering of their f… Show more
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