Our debt to Charlotte Maxeke: 150 years after her birth, she's still our mother
Charlotte Maxeke - born 150 years ago this month - is celebrated as a mother figure of the struggle, sometimes at the expense of her radical religious and intellectual contributions rooted in an ”Ethiopianist” vision of black independence, writes Panashe Chigumadzi in the first of two articles on Maxeke
18 April 2021 - 00:00
Charlotte Maxeke - born 150 years ago this month - is celebrated as a mother figure of the struggle, sometimes at the expense of her radical religious and intellectual contributions rooted in an ”Ethiopianist” vision of black independence, writes Panashe Chigumadzi in the first of two articles on Maxeke.
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