African feminist epistemology is stigmatized as un-African and Westernizing.

Evidence

There is a contestation between what feminism sets out to achieve and what the majority of Africans, including some quarters of women themselves, understand it to be. This ideological challenge is made worse by a contestation of values between Western and African feminists. African feminist epistemology, an ideology that enhances the struggle for the rights of African women, is often excluded from intellectual discourse or labelled as a Western or recolonizing pursuit alien to Africa, a “curse word” or an outright negation of “Africaness”. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 937

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: the actual points of value-contestation between Western and African feminisms, and how African feminism defines itself against both.