ABSTRACT
Looking to foster ties with African women abroad, the East Sisterhood—the women’s division of the organization—engaged in an ambitious fundraising campaign to send Hill to the All-Africa Women’s Conference in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Delegates’ prescriptions for women to invest their energies in “Pan-African solidarities” and “concrete” efforts to eliminate racism created openings for women to develop new understandings of Pan-Africanism rooted in their lived experiences with racism and imperialism and built on present political consensus rather than identifications with historical abstractions. Delegates envisioned this unity as “characterized by [women’s] mutual support and leadership in all spheres—home, battlefield, workforce, and community.” They also suggested that Black women reaffirm their solidarity with “African women, and men, toward the end of self-determination and a strong united Africa by strengthening their ‘commitment to and participation in the Pan-African liberation struggle’ and by making “concrete moves to eliminate racism, capitalism, imperialism, and neo-colonialism.
