ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Tanzanian women activists, especially Bibi Titi Mohamed, to illustrate how their involvement in the African National Union (TANU) of Tanganyika shaped the party and was essential to the success of the liberation struggle. Mapping differential geographies has the potential to contribute significantly to a newly emerging transdisciplinary literature. The chapter explores the reasons behind the omission of women's contributions to the liberation struggle by examining the politics of gender, memory and representation in arts and culture and by providing examples of discursive colonialisms in nationalist and Western feminist historiographies. It focuses on the life and work of Bibi Titi Mohmed and the complex nature of women's stories and restores traditional norms of masculinity. Women in underdeveloped countries are often restricted by spatial and temporal barriers, which prevent access to knowledge, education and health care, and, as a result, reduce their ability to improve their own lives.
