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#JusticePourMirabelle: The Resurgence of a Transnational Cameroonian Feminist Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2023

Rose Ndengue*
Affiliation:
1York University–Glendon Campus, Canada
Atsem Atsem
Affiliation:
2Activist, Cameroon
Maveun Maveun
Affiliation:
2Activist, Cameroon
*
*Corresponding author. Email: rndengue@glendon.yorku.ca

Extract

For decades, African women have participated in the Black feminist struggle for women’s rights and racial, social, economic, and political justice (Collins 2017; Tamale 2020). In the 1950s, during the fight for independence across the continent, a radical and transnational feminist movement emerged with African women’s protests to “crack the norms of gender and colonial order” (Ndengue 2016) in both urban and rural postcolonial contexts (Falola and Paddock 2011; Mougoué 2019; Nchoji Nkwi 1985; Ndengue 2018). Protests have transnational effects (Johnson-Odim 2009; Terretta 2013). Today, transnationalism relies on social media platforms as sites of calls to action. They constitute alternative public spaces for expression and activism in constrained political environments (Ngono 2018) and platforms that facilitate informal transnational connections. These transnational connections are accompanied by explicit and assertive claims of feminism by a growing number of (young) women.

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Critical Perspectives Article
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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