Patricia McFadden is a radical African eco-feminist who aspires to a life of freedom and joy. She is vegan and produces most of her own organic food on a mountain in eastern Swaziland. Her most recent publications are “Women’s Freedoms are the Heart Beat of Africa’s Future: A Sankarian Imperative” in A Certain Amount of Madness, the Life, Politics and Legacies of Thomas Sankara; A Feminist Conversation: Situating our Radical Ideas and Energies in the Contemporary African Context; Critiquing Conventional Discourses on Girls and Gendered Female Identities in Africa; Contemporarity: Sufficiency in a Radical African Feminist Life, in the journal Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; and forthcoming Women in African Socialist Projects.