African Women Legends and the Spirituality of Resistance
ISBN-13: 9781032587271 / Twarda / 2024 / 272 str.
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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.
Part 1: Women-Centred Origins and Solidarity with Mother Earth
1 “ Bones Shall Rise Again!” African Legendary Women and the Spirituality of Resistance
Musa W. Dube
2 “Powerhouse of Feminism”: Sitting with the Nine Daughters of Gīkūyū and Mūmbi, at the Ecological and Gender Hearth
Mary Wanjiku Kihuha
3 Wangari Maathai’s Environmental Spirituality as Grounded in African Indigenous Community Wisdom
Fancy Cheronoh
Part 2: Rain Queens and Rain Priestess, and Sangoma
4 The Modjadji Rain-Queendom of South Africa: Women as Guardians of the Traditional Mantle
A Lefatshe Moagi and Mr. B. Mtombeni
5 Towards makewana eco-theology: Motherhood, wife god and rain priestess
Fulata Lusungu Moyo and Joyce Mlenga
6 Isangoma and Wosana the Rain Priestess: women as vehicles to the sustainability of African Indigenous Religions
Senzokuhle Doreen Setume
Part 3: Legendary Women and Political Rebellion
7 Kimpa Vita: Revolutionary Prophetess and Martyr of the Kongo Kingdom
Maleke Marthe Kondemo
8 Wallata Petros of Ethiopia: Wife, Mother and Freedom Fighter
Meklit Mitiku Mamunu
9 Mbuya Nehanda: Priestess and Freedom Fighter of Zimbabwe
Molly Manyonganise
10 Nwanyeruwa: leading the nigerian women's war of 1929
Martina I. Oguntoyinbo-atere
Part 4: Sister Kings, Regent Queens and Queen Mothers
11 Makhadzi: The Salient Venda Cornerstone of Indigenous Public Leadership
Yvonne Winfildah Takawira-Matwapa
12 “The Indomitable Queen Labotsibeni of Eswatini: Where Gender and Religion Meet in a Patriarchal Space
Sonene Nyawo
Part 5: Founders of African Independent Churches
13 Lenshina Alice Mulenga: The Spirit of Resistance and Liberation
Dorothy Tembo
14 Mma Christinah Nku: Legendary spiritual woman
Linah Simimba Ndhlovu
15 Mai Chaza//Matenga: A Legendary African Woman Leader in Zimbabwean Spirituality
Amos Muyambo and Joseph Muyangata
Part 6: Legendary African Women Writers
16 “We should all be feminists”: A critical analysis of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s African feminist resources for gender activism in Africa
Pauline Mateveke
Musa W. Dube, the William Ragsdale Cannon Distinguished Professor of the New Testament, is a Humboldtian awardee (2011) and winner of the Gutenberg Teaching Award (2017) biblical scholar based at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, USA.
Telesia K. Musili is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. She is a national coordinator of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians.
Sylvia Owusu-Ansah is Dean of the School of Theology at Perez University, Ghana. She is Vice-President of the Missiological Society of Ghana based at Trinity Theological Seminary and Head Pastor of Revival Temple, Perez Chapel International La.