Everybody is on their way to Russia or Back: The Conference of Women of Africa and African Descent, Cold War Politics and the Ghanaian Nation State
Adwoa Opong is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African and African American Studies and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity. Her PhD is in African History with a focus on African women social workers and the development imaginary of the post Second World War period. Her research sits at the intersections of histories of gender, decolonization and development in modern Africa.
This talk is about the Conference of Women of Africa and African Descent held in July 1960 in Accra, Ghana, an event that has remained somewhat obscure in the historiography of African and indeed black feminist internationalism. It contextualizes the Conference of Women of Africa and African Descent as exposing the possibilities and constraints of women’s transnational alliances during a historical moment in which different strands of political ideologies and agendas constituted the global order.
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