This article examines the ways in which feminist concerns have shaped, driven, and defined the social and political parameters
of agrarian movements in Africa. Even though agrarian movements articulating gender questions are not generalizable as feminist,
their concern with social, political, and economic structures of oppression and their approach to gendered oppression as a political question
lends them to characterization as being feminist.
Through an examination of the changing forms of women-led agrarian struggles,
the article shows how women’s responses to the dominant structures and conditions of colonial and post-colonial capitalist accumulation
could be characterized as feminist due to their social and political imperatives behind women’s resistance.