Hope Chigudu, Lead consultant, HopeAfrica

"Shereen Essof has written a fascinating account of a significant period on the Women's Movement in Zimbabwe. In the 1980s there was a sense that the movement was a 10-point programme: legal rights, access to resources, equal pay for equal work, maternity leave … We thought that when we’d checked off that list, we’d be done. The story that emerges through this book shows that whatever we thought we’d ‘ticked’ to enable a society of choice has not been enough. As we move into the future, Essof has provided us with a history that should not be forgotten, and tools to re-ignite our feminist fire."

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