Abstract
Feminist historiography is traditionally narrated through waves, which demarcate moments and agendas of women’s mobilisation. This narrative, however, is primarily centred on Euro-American experiences. Alternatives to this approach have recently emerged as a way of reframing feminist experiences elsewhere, in particular the Global South. African feminists, more specifically, innovate their historiography by drawing attention to colonialism as an analytical axis for women’s experiences on the continent. In this article, I discuss an approach that analyses African feminisms through political eras centred on colonialism. I discuss how African feminists articulate their interpretations of women’s movements on the continent in the face of this analytical axis and in each of the political eras. As a result, I argue that African feminisms are best understood as a mosaic of feminisms, given their diversity and multiplicity of agendas and demands.
Keywords:
African feminisms; African women; feminist historiography