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Feminist Africa 21. 2016: The Politics of Fashion and Beauty in Africa
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PDF VersionEditorial: The Politics of Fashion and Beauty in Africa
– by Simidele Dosekun
Features
African Women Do Not Look Good in Wigs: Gender, Beauty Rituals and Cultural Identity in Anglophone Cameroon, 1961-1972
– by Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
Contesting Beauty: Black Lesbians on the Stage
– by Zethu Matebeni
“These Girls’ Fashion is Sick!”: An African City and the Geography of Sartorial Worldliness
– by Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin
Skimpy Fashion and Sexuality in Sheebah Karungi’s Performances
– by Evelyn Lutwama-Rukundo
Standpoints
The weave as an ‘unhappy’ technology of black femininity
– by Simidele Dosekun
Dreadlocks as a Symbol of Resistance: Performance and Reflexivity
– by Tendai Mutukwa
In Conversation
Profiles
Profile: ‘Keep Your Eyes off My Thighs’: A Feminist Analysis of Uganda’s ‘Miniskirt Law’
– by Sylvia Tamale
Reviews
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. By Tanisha C. Ford. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2015
– by Kabura Nganga
Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Postapartheid. By Gabeba Baderoon. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2014.
– by Sa’diyya Shaikh
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World. Edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano for DAWN. London: Zed Books, 2014
– by Sehin Teferra
Tribute
Tribute: Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf and Her ‘Jihad’ of the Heart (December 1952–September 2015)
– by Maryam Uwais MFR
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| FA 21: Zethu Matebeni |
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| FA 21: Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin |
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| FA 21: Evelyn Lutwama-Rukundo |
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| FA 21: Simidele Dosekun |
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| FA 21: Tendai Mutukwa |
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| FA 21: In Conversation |
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| FA 21: Sylvia Tamale |
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| FA 21: Kabura Nganga |
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| FA 21: Sa’diyya Shaikh |
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| FA 21: Sehin Teferra |
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| FA 21: Maryam Uwais MFR |
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| FA 21: Contributors |
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| FA 21: Preliminary Pages |
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| FA 21: Back Cover |
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