Sylvia Tamale
Sylvia Rosila Tamale is a Ugandan academic, and human rights activist in Uganda. She was the first woman dean in the law faculty at Makerere University, Uganda.
Quotes
[edit]- Despite the debilitating legacies of slavery and colonialism that continue to hold our continent and perpetuate global geopolitical and economic imbalances, I think Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra whereby you strike one and another one that is twice as strong emerges.
- I believe in a just a fair world, where I am not subservient to another because we differ in color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age.
- Our feminism is not qualified by the "Buts ,Ifs Or However" ..You are either a feminist or you are not.
- Definitely. I think African futurism and the interdisciplinary genre and movement hold a lot of promise for the imaginaries of our people.
- Now, never underestimate the power of the mind. What African futurism does is harness that power into action. It empowers us to craft the future that we want.
- Africa will inevitably rise like those many heads of the hydra, but first it needs a decolonial break from the tether that ties its economies to the global capitalist market.
- Colonialism maintains a stranglehold on knowledge production through an elaborate publication infrastructure largely based in the global North...[to] gatekeep what qualifies as "legitimate" publishable knowledge.
