Africa's Freedom Struggles: Women, Colonial Resistance, and Decolonization

Natasha Debora Aidoo And Marie Moïse In Conversation

Drawing on the story of Carlota, the protagonist of Mónica de Miranda's Path To The Stars, this conversation between scholars Marie Moïse and Natasha Debora Aidoo examines how women contributed to various forms of resistance and community, passed down through generations, memories and diasporas, spanning the periods before, during, and after the Year of Africa (1960).

Natasha Debora Aidoo is a PhD candidate in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. She works on feminist urban studies, feminist identities and urban practices. She is interested in and writes about African, Black, and decolonial feminisms. Apart from that, she writes both prose and poetry She lives and works in Florence.

Marie Moïse holds a B.A. in History from the University of Milan, an M.A. in Gender Studies from the University of Paris 7, and a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from the University of Padua and Toulouse 2. Her research focuses on the intersectionality of gender, race, class and political subjectivation. She's an activist in antiracist and decolonial grassroots projects. She has co-authored several collections of (afro)feminist and essays and short stories.