"Feminism is so powerful: because it is not an event that is just emerging now. It is embedded in the oldest memories of human consciousness about freedom. We are born with this instinct to be free and then begin the struggle to resist the attempts to appropriate our freedom, which we experience through the marking of our bodies and the commodification of our bodies."
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Anti-apartheid activistsHuman rights activistsFeministsWomen academics from EswatiniSociologists from Eswatini
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women’s participation in the anti-colonial struggles, and its recovery of the feminist past of African women.
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