ABSTRACT
Feminism, earlier called the Woman Suffrage Movement, started when a group of liberal White women, whose concerns then were for the abolition of slavery and equal rights for all people regardless of race, class and sex, dominated the scene among women on the national level during the early to mid-nineteenth century. In 1890 the National American Woman Suffrage Association was founded by northern White women, but “southern women were also vigorously courted by that group”, epitomizing the growing race chauvinism of the late nineteenth century. A supreme paradigm of the need for Africana women to prioritize the struggle for human dignity and parity is presented by South African woman activist Ruth Mompati. As Africana Womanism–rather than feminism, Black feminism, African feminism, or Womanism–is a conceivable alternative for the Africana woman in her collective struggle with the entire community, it enhances future possibilities for the dignity of Africana people and the humanity of all.
