| | The articles in this issue of ROAPE are addressed directly to the issue of gender and women's struggles in Africa. Coverage has at best been occasional and until now, no opportunity has been taken to reflect on the impact that feminist analysis has had upon the debates current at the time when ROAPE was founded. Nor has there been any reflection upon the similarities and differences between women's demands in the west, the nature which has been implicit in some of the articles which have been published, and the struggles and demands of women in Africa. The feminist movement in the West has been accused of racism, that it is to say it has failed to recognise the different historical experience of black women compared to that of white women and has been aggressive towards their cultural values and struggles for freedom as black women. |
