| Description |
1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements (African Women Legends and the Spirituality of Resistance) -- Part 1 Women-Centred Origins and Solidarity with Mother Earth -- 1 "My Bones Shall Rise Again!" African Legendary Women and the Spirituality of Resistance -- 2 "Powerhouse of Feminism": Sitting with the Nine Daughters of Gīkūyū and Mūmbi at the Ecological and Gender Hearth -- 3 Wangari Maathai's Environmental Spirituality as Grounded in African Indigenous Community Wisdom |
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Part 2 Rain Queens, Wife God and Priestess of Southern Africa -- 4 The Modjadji Rain-Queendom of South Africa: Women as Guardians of the Traditional Mantle -- 5 Towards Makewana Eco-Theology: Motherhood, Wife God and Rain Priestess -- 6 Isangoma and Wosana the Rain Priestess: Women as Vehicles to the Sustainability of African Indigenous Religions -- Part 3 Legendary Women and Political Rebellion -- 7 Kimpa Vita: Revolutionary Prophetess and Martyr of the Kongo Kingdom -- 8 Wallata Petros of Ethiopia: Wife, Mother and Freedom Fighter -- 9 Mbuya Nehanda: Priestess and Freedom Fighter of Zimbabwe |
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10 Nwanyeruwa: Leading the Nigerian Women's War of 1929 -- Part 4 Sister Kings, Regent Queens and Queen Mothers -- 11 Makhadzi: The Salient Venda Cornerstone of Indigenous Public Leadership -- 12 The Indomitable Queen Labotsibeni of Eswatini: Where Gender and Religion Meet in a Patriarchal Space -- Part 5 Founders of African Independent Churches -- 13 Lenshina Alice Mulenga: The Spirit of Resistance and Liberation -- 14 Mma Christinah Nku: Legendary Spiritual Woman -- 15 Mai Chaza//Matenga: A Legendary African Woman Leader in Zimbabwean Spirituality -- Part 6 Legendary African Women Writers |
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16 "We Should All Be Feminists": A Critical Analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's African Feminist Resources for Gender Activism in Africa -- 17 Redefining Liberating Motherhood in Leymah Gbowee's Mothering Leadership -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
K. Musili, Telesia
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Owusu-Ansah, Sylvia
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| ISBN |
9781003852421 |
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1003852424 |
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