Abstract
Sometimes a cause worth fighting for seems so self-evident that is difficult to see how any other moral arrangements could be tolerated.
Such is the challenge of “gender justice” activism seeking to dismantle patriarchal Muslim values in the Sudan, following the 2019 revolution and overthrow of Omar al-Bashir and the Ingaz, the popular label used for the Islamist regime and its claim of a salvation mission. Yet gender justice is not a neutral goal, nor is the process of achieving it driven by objective criteria. It is one of multiple and competing claims for autonomy and self-determination that have defined post-colonial struggles in Africa. While Western-oriented feminist activism has steered the position of civil society organizations towards international conventions which place the individual as the rights bearing entity, little attention has been paid to forms of gender justice that non-elite, non-Arab and non-Muslim women may seek – or that may not value the liberal ideals of autonomy and self-determination for women.