A book featuring Uganda and Zimbabwe’s Hon Margaret Dongo, Captain
Gertrude Njuba, Hon Jesse Majome and Hon Alice Alaso highlighting
women’s pivotal political leadership in Africa’s conflict and
post-conflict settings.
This book serves two objectives, first, tracing the role of women in
liberation struggles in Uganda and Zimbabwe. Secondly, documenting the
experiences of women political leaders negotiating political situations
characterized by risk, violence, intimidation, sexual pacification,
aggression and fear while bearing aspects of hope, the future, crafting
of nations, building citizenship and political independence.
This documentation provides an opportunity to illuminate covert and
overt voices and actions of women political actors that most times get
silenced in patriarchal political settings. Four cases of women
political leaders are selected from Uganda and Zimbabwe, with a specific
intent of learning from their historical experiences as key
participants in liberation struggles as well as the new breed of
post-conflict political women leaders that emerged.