Pre-colonial African women philosopher-queens were erased by Western scholarship

Evidence

There is also evidence of female Africans who contributed to what constitutes an academic feminist African philosophy since pre-colonial times. These philosopher queens had their various epistemological and philosophical contours, and they also contributed to the current state of the African mindset towards the value of redefining a gender-balanced African identity. While Western scholarship has indeed worked hard to bury these heroines over the years, it is our duty as African feminist scholars to resurrect their legacy through research and documentation in order to reach a gender-balanced agenda by 2063. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 973

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: an essay on historiographic erasure of African women philosophers and the archival work needed to recover them.
• XREF: connects to: Institutional methods systematically erased Beauvoir and other women from philosophy’s canon — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 326