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A review by duizelend
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara
5.0
I would recommend this to everyone! It's a super short & easy read (very accessible language, repeats key ideas), about 50 pages. The way Sankara talks about women's struggle in relation to class struggle is an essential idea that is often forgotten or overlooked by male progressives or revolutionaries. It's in part specifically targeted towards the women of Burkina Faso, but at the same time contains a universal struggle.
"The genuine emancipation of women is that which entrusts responsibilities to them and involves them in productive activity and in the different struggles the people face. Women's genuine emancipation is one that exacts men's respect and consideration. Emancipation, like freedom, is not granted but conquered. It is for women themselves to put forward their demands and mobilize to win them.
For that, the democratic and popular revolution will create the necessary conditions to allow Voltaic women to realize themselves fully and completely. After all, would it be possible to eliminate the system of exploitation while maintaining the exploitation of women, who make up more than half our society?"
"The genuine emancipation of women is that which entrusts responsibilities to them and involves them in productive activity and in the different struggles the people face. Women's genuine emancipation is one that exacts men's respect and consideration. Emancipation, like freedom, is not granted but conquered. It is for women themselves to put forward their demands and mobilize to win them.
For that, the democratic and popular revolution will create the necessary conditions to allow Voltaic women to realize themselves fully and completely. After all, would it be possible to eliminate the system of exploitation while maintaining the exploitation of women, who make up more than half our society?"