Sylvia Tamale

thumb|Professor Sylvia Tamale Sylvia Rosila Tamale is a Ugandan academic, and human rights activist in Uganda. She was the first woman dean in the law faculty at Makerere University, Uganda. Quotes 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. 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. Definitely. I think African futurism and the interdisciplinary genre and movement hold a lot of promise for the imaginaries of our people. 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. 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. 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. External links Category:Women academics from Uganda Category:Human rights activists Category:Women activists from Uganda Category:Living people