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Florita Cuhanga António Telo
Catholic University of Angola
Florita Cuhanga António Telo is a researcher and consultant in gender diversity and inclusion. She received her PhD in Women, Gender, and Feminisms Interdisciplinary Studies at the Federal University of Bahia (Brazil). She has a master’s degree in Human Rights from the Federal University of Paraíba (Brazil). She has her bachelor’s degree in Law from Agostinho Neto University (Angola).
Telo is a researcher at the Center for Citizenship and Human Rights at the Catholic University of Angola, where she coordinates research on Social Movements, Human Rights, and Sociocultural Diversities. She is also a researcher at the Piaget Institute in Benguela. She is the winner of the National Human Rights Award in the scientific investigation category with the book Angola: a trajectória das lutas pela cidadania e a educação em direitos humanos (2023).
Talk Information:
African Feminism: Contributions From Southern Epistemologies
October 11, 2024 | 9:00 AM
Arising from coloniality and gender, a large part of African feminist work tends to reproduce Western hegemonic dynamics. As Nigerian sociologist Oyěwùmí asserts, in African Feminist studies, the questions that inform the research are developed from the West. The theories and functioning concepts are derived from Western experiences; namely the Western standard based in bodily reason in which gender is omnipresent, the masculine is the norm, and the feminine the exception. It is a standard that asserts power is inherent to masculinity in itself. My presentation intends to deepen the approach based on the studies of scholars such as Oyěwùmí, Amadiume, and Lugones, advocating for the decolonization of feminism in the Global South, as an epistemic contribution and also aiming to achieve its potential of social transformation and change.