Nothing is new under the sun.
Just last week, I was reading in Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué's book about the Anlu Rebellion, which involved women from the Bamenda Grassfields "stripping naked in front of men" who "considered the sign of the vagina in public to be a bad portent".
I'll have a review of Mougoué's @UofMPress book, "Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in #Cameroon" in this week's installment of the @monkeycageblog's African Politics Summer Reading Spectacular. #APSRS20 press.umich.edu/9955318/gender…
Until then, you can hear her interviewed by @thiamm about her book on the @NewBooksAfrica podcast:
Learn more about the Anlu Rebellion, in this by Mougoué in the Oxford Research Enclopedia of African History: oxfordre.com/africanhistory…
If you're protesting anti-Black violence and you have a vagina, you might consider this non-violent tactic, used across time and space.
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