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“Colonial Logics” Remained for Black Women in “Liberated” Zimbabwe

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

22 Dec 2020

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Margaret Kimberley · “Colonial Logics” Remained for Black Women in “Liberated” Zimbabwe

Black women “posed a problem” for the Black government that replaced white rule in Zimbabwe, because their bodies were thought to “disturb urban space,” said Rudo Mudiwa, a PhD in Community and Culture and a Research Fellow at Princeton University. Under colonial rule, “women were supposed to stay in the village to produce more laborers,” said Mudiwa, a native of Zimbabwe. But after liberation, “colonial logics were still operating,” resulting in massive arrests and harassment of women on urban streets. Dr Mudiwa wrote an article titled, “Stop the Woman, Save the State: Policing, Order, and the Black Woman’s Body.”

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