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Exploring African Feminisms: Context, Positioning, and Making the Personal Political

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Mourning the still birth of often her only child, incontinent of urine, ashamed of her offensiveness, abandoned by her husband and shunned by friends and her village society, homeless, unemployable, they endure, they exist without friends and without hope. (Hamlin 2001, p. 88)

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