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chandler_daversa's review
4.0
This is Sankara’s distillation of Engel’s Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State but in a Burkinabé context. It’s a pretty good breezy text on Marxist feminism from one of Africa’s greatest liberation leaders, who greatly improved the lives of millions formerly suffering under French colonial tyranny.
naysia_reads's review
informative
fast-paced
5.0
Wow what an impactful and interesting set of speeches! Despite these words being from 1987 they feel so progressive and still so timely. In my opinion we can learn a-lot from this man and his outlook on life.
fav quote:
“If we lose the fight to liberate women we will have lost all right to hope for a positive transformation of our society into something superior. Our revo- lution will then have no meaning. It is to wage this noble struggle that all of us, men and women, are summoned.”
fav quote:
“If we lose the fight to liberate women we will have lost all right to hope for a positive transformation of our society into something superior. Our revo- lution will then have no meaning. It is to wage this noble struggle that all of us, men and women, are summoned.”
nohemie's review
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
I really enjoyed this book. Very short reading, straight to the point and explored so many subjects. It was heavily focused on a more hetero-normative vision of women’s liberation but I wasn’t surprised. I will definitely look into reading from more African leaders, activists and scholars.