We met Bi Kidude in 2003 in Zanzibar, when we were at the planning meeting for the African Feminist Congress. She liked to smoke and drink in public. She liked to sing in public. She also liked to straddle her drum and gyrate her hips as she beat that drum.
She said to the young ones in the room — Jessica Horn, Pumla Gqola and myself — then the babies of the African Feminist Congress, “You must never be afraid of taking pleasure.” Bi Kidude told us that we should never be ashamed of becoming old in public…. —Bella Matambanadzo 4th AFF, Zimbabwe April 2016
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