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WHAT’S THE POINT OF A REVOLUTION IF WE CAN’T DANCE

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old, young and middle aged, bound by our kinship to pan-African and feminist decolonial politics, passion for knowledge and expression

and commitment to a balanced telling of our stories as women and men of Africa and African descent, from our authentic voices, perspectives and ways of knowing.

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    Demere

    Founder

    Writer ◦ Facilitator ◦ Curator


    Demere Kitunga is a feminist thinker, writer, and storytelling mentor whose four decades of work have shaped Tanzania’s literary and feminist landscapes. She designs multimedia storytelling interventions and builds intergenerational spaces that centre women’s voices and Pan‑African feminist knowledge. Her practice is grounded in a lifelong commitment to reading, collective inquiry, and transformative storytelling.

    Valerie

    Visual Artist

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    Valerie Amani is an anti‑disciplinary artist, writer, and researcher whose work spans installation, textiles, performance, video, and participatory storytelling. She explores myth, memory, belonging, and feminist knowledge through layered, research‑driven practice. Her work often bridges personal narrative with collective histories, creating spaces for reflection and embodied understanding.

    Getrude

    Film-maker

    Film-maker ◦ VIsual Artists ◦ Curator


    Gertrude Malizeni is a filmmaker, multidisciplinary visual artist, and curator whose work centers women’s lived histories through film, installation, painting, and photography. Her practice foregrounds unseen forms of women’s labor, community care, and intergenerational knowledge.

    Rehema

    Artist

    Artist ◦ Writer ◦ Researcher


    Rehema Chachage is an artist, writer, and researcher whose practice explores memory, lineage, and embodied histories through research‑driven, multi-sensory installation, image, sound, and text. Her projects engage personal and communal archives to examine how stories are carried, inherited, and transformed across generations.

    FEMINIST LENS

    Wherever there is an audience, we intervene. Wherever there is a story, we eke it out of the bowels and crevices of human interaction, that is our shared her/history; always with a feminist lens.

    We are not an institution; we are free elements bound by what we hold dear. We operate individually and in groups, in cocreation and other partnerships that work for us. We partner with individuals and institutions as partners or service providers, but we remain a fluid consortium of like-minded individuals in the service of promoting pan African feminist knowledge base in all spheres of life, learning and nurture.

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    "What's the point of a revolution if we can't dance."

    What does it truly mean to feel a sense of belonging in a place?

    Revisiting and reinterpreting the University of Dar es Salaam Intellectual Debates of the 1970s—and their afterlives—through decolonial, and intersectional feminist lenses.

    WE ARE BILINGUAL AND MULTILINGUAL TRANSLATORS

    We work in African languages of translation such as Kiswahili and in other indigenous African tongues. We navigate between those and those we acquired through foreign occupation and other cultural encounters; predominantly English. We are bilingual and multilingual translators (and/or transliteration) and editors across languages and artistic expressions (e.g., visual and textual).

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