Sylvia Tamale Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Definitely. I think African futurism and the interdisciplinary genre and movement hold a lot of promise for the imaginaries of our people.