Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters
Afems 2023 - Our Sisters Killjoy
Saturday, 8 July 2023
Keynote: Philiswa Lila
Kukwam Apha! Exploring Retrospective Experience through Traces of Home
Saturday, 8 July 2023, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Wives, widows and wayward women
Chair: Saajidah Madhi
Zikho Dana | “Dadobawo Sicel’ Amandla Okanye Ndinxila Ndifuz’ Udadobawo”: The ‘Rich Aunt’ Phenomena and Forced Maternal Duties
Bellita Banda Chitsamatanga | An Autoethnography reflection of a Mad Black Zimbabwean Widow
Gabriel Kosiso Okonkwo | Of Nuptiality and African Culture: Attitudes to Patriarchal Structures of Trauma in Lola Shoneyin’s “The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives”
Saturday, 8 July 2023, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Imagining, Creating and Being
Chair: Pumla Dineo Gqola
Jamie Martin and Jamil F. Khan | Solidarity and Sucking the Air Out of the Room, Together
Phemelo Hellemann | Umzi ka Mama: How a Select Group of Fingo Village Female-heads of Households Transcended ‘Six Mountains on their Backs’ to Acquire Family Property
Ayabulela Mhlahlo | Labyrinths and Cartographies: Pathways to the Folkloric Imagination
Saturday, 8 July 2023,12.00-13.30
Panel: Dissident Feminisms
Chair: Corinne Knowles
Aphiwe Ntlemeza | Locating Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the Contemporary Feminist Movement in South Africa
Yvette Abrahams and Gabeba Baderoon | How to dream a feminist community into being: beginning the WCCR
Saturday, 8 July 2023,12.00-13.30
Panel: Romantic Productions
Chair: Dina Ligaga
Fatima Moolla | Why Love Is Not Enough: Reflections on Eros from a Black-Eyed Squint Nono Motlhoki | Romantic Portraits as a Mode to Rehumanise the Image of Black Women in Romantic Productions
Saajidah Madhi | Unravelling the Veils of Love in Intimate Spaces
Sehlorana Kekana | Dressing Wounds
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Saturday, 8 July 2023, 14.30-16.00
Afems Dialogue
Title: Conversational Bridges: African Feminisms as Epistemic Community Discussants
Polo Moji, Kharnita Mohamed, Aika Swai