{"id":14988,"date":"2022-04-04T17:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/?p=14988"},"modified":"2022-04-06T10:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T10:18:47","slug":"announcing-the-ongea-mama-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/announcing-the-ongea-mama-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the Ongea Mama Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<span lang=\"en\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE AFRICAN WOMEN&#8217;S DEVELOPMENT FUND AND BLACK WOMEN RADICALS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14989\" src=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-3-450x210.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-3-450x210.png 450w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-3-1024x478.png 1024w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-3-768x358.png 768w, https:\/\/awdf.org\/OldSite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-3.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><em><strong>About The Ongea Mama Series<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">A collaboration between Black Women Radicals (BWR) and the African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF), \u201cOngea Mama\u201d is an online series dedicated to curating discourses that uplift the unique perspectives, experiences, and activism of African feminists, from continental and diasporic approaches.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">\u201cOngea Mama\u201d translated as \u201cSpeak Mama\u201d in Swahili. With this, the series is anchored around exploring major questions:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does it mean for African, Black, and Afro-descendant feminists to be in dialogue with one another?<\/li>\n<li>How can we learn from each other not only politically but personally, culturally, and even spiritually?<\/li>\n<li>How do we address and forge past historical and contemporary differences and tensions that impact our understandings of each other in efforts to create solidarity, sisterhood, and siblinghood across borders and boundaries?<\/li>\n<li>How can this series serve as a political education tool to learn more about feminist strategies, initiatives, and knowledge productions globally?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">The \u201cOngea Mama\u201d series is an extension of a previous event collaboration between the African Women\u2019s Development Fund and Black Women Radicals which focused on \u201cHealth Equity and Power: Building Transnational Feminist Solidarity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\">As objectives, the Ongea Mama Series seek to<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide a dialogue and discourse among and between Africa, Black, and Afro-descendant feminists.<\/li>\n<li>Provide political education about historical and contemporary African feminist leaders and their leadership.<\/li>\n<li>Interrogate the work, activism, and productions of African feminists on the African continent and in the Diaspora.<\/li>\n<li>Create and build solidarity with and among Black women and gender expansive activists from around the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>About The African Women\u2019s Development Fund<\/strong>: <em>The African Women\u2019s Development Fund is a pan-African, women-led, grant-making agency that resources African women\u2019s organisations to deliver sustainable development initiatives targeting women on the continent.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><strong>About Black Women Radicals:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackwomenradicals.com\/\">Black Women Radicals<\/a> is a Black feminist advocacy organisation dedicated to uplifting and centering Black women and gender expansive people\u2019s radical activism in Africa and in the African Diaspora.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en\"><\/span>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-blog-group"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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