We are not fully Citizens of our Universities African Women leaders, Non-belonging and Construction of New Cultures and Citizenships in South African Higher Education

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Siphokazi Tau https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1493-5638

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African feminism, university, transformation, women leadership

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The post-Apartheid and #FeesMustFall higher education landscape has created opportunities for universities in South Africa to foster in transformation as it pertains to gender, language, sexuality, disability, race and other minority markers. More so, the accessibility of the student and staff demographic has meant that in some cases, African women can emerge to various positions of power. This paper, through phenomenological reflections of five African women leaders in South African universities, considers the ways in which citizenship and belonging are navigated through the mapping of their leadership journey. Furthermore, this paper explores the possibilities within the African feminist scholarship to argue that African women leaders use their agency to determine humanizing institutional cultures.

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