Anticolonial leaders
Mali's first female lawmaker, she was a midwife and wrote Femme D'Afrique
Aoua Kéita
Term used for Black women’s rejection of Eurocentric ideals and creation of political identity, coined by Annette Joseph-Gabriel
Decolonial Citizenship
Aoua Kéita used this Malian political group to organize women and lead movements
Union Soudanaise du Rassemblement Démocratique Africain (USRDA)
Her son died because of a law that only gave malaria medicine to write people, she became a leader for African presidents like Kwame Nkrumah
Andrée Blouin
The Western idea that only men can be considered human, excluding those who aren't white
"Man as human"
Term for rural Mali women resisting colonial rule through marches, singing, and protests, coined by Kéita
transgressive mobility (or marching and singing in protest)
These two Black women became senators for Guadeloupe and Oubangui-Chari and fought for women’s rights across the Atlantic
Eugénie Éboué-Tell and Jane Vialle
In his 1940 radio speech, this French leader asked African colonies to help free France from the Nazis
Charles de Gaulle
Caribbean (Martinican) writer who used art and stories to fight for and imagine freedom during WWII
Suzanne Césaire