Invitation to Contribute to the Anthology Titled:

Stories of Erasure and  Reclamation:  Revisiting the 1970s intellectual Debates’ Backyard .

Uhenga Collective invites writers, scholars, artists, poets, researchers, and cultural practitioners to contribute to a multigenre and multilingual anthology co edited by Demere Kitunga Diana Kamara and Rehema Chachage, that revisits and reinterprets the Dar es Salaam Intellectual Debates of the 1970s—and their afterlives—through decolonial, and intersectional feminist lenses. This anthology seeks to foreground the erased, silenced, and marginalized histories of women at the University of Dar es Salaam: students, faculty, activists, artists, administrators, cultural workers, international students and their associates whose intellectual labour and everyday struggles remain largely absent from mainstream narratives. Submissions should critically, creatively, and expansively engage with the intellectual and social histories of the University, illuminate the gendered dynamics of knowledge production, and bring forward narratives, analyses, and forms that challenge the exclusions embedded within dominant historiographies. We seek work that expands the ways this history is remembered, unsettles masculinist mythologies, and reimagines liberatory traditions for future generations.