abstract This interview with Coumba Toure, feminist, Pan-African activist, and educator took place as part of a debriefing session at the end of a three day strategic planning workshop that brought together activists, artists, trade unionists, educators and organisations fighting imperialism, sexism and the privatisation of water in the face of the upcoming World Water Forum to be hosted in Dakar Senegal in 2021. The gathering was co-hosted by the Blue Planet Project, an international water justice coalition with whom Koni Benson does organising and education work, and by Africans Rising, a Pan-African movement of people and organisations working to build a continent-wide solidarity for a self-determined future, coordinated by Coumba Toure. This interview inquires about how Coumba thinks about strategies for building connected bottom-up movements across Senegal, and across Africa, that are feminist, Pan-Africanist and intergenerational. Coumba’s political journey to achieve this approach to her work is the main focus of the interview where she exemplifies the rejection of conventional boundaries between fields of expertise that often begin to mould and professionalise gender justice experts, teachers, NGO activists and published writers. What accounts for the ways in which she applies the principles of the African Feminist Charter, and the politics of Pan-African liberation to her daily life and work? We discuss why we are opposing and attempting to build a People’s Alternative to the World Water Forum which aims to open up Africa’s water to marketplaces of the global North. The interview unpacks how Coumba came to employ the approach of bringing older and younger activists, artists, students and communities into the daunting space of water specialists and professionalised NGOs, and what we hope to build through these spaces of connection, opposition and alternatives.

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非洲反抢水斗争中的泛非主义、女权主义和大众教育：对 Coumba Toure 的采访

本次采访询问 Coumba 如何考虑在塞内加尔和整个非洲建立相互关联的自下而上运动的策略，这些运动是女权主义、泛非主义和代际运动。Coumba 实现这种工作方式的政治旅程是采访的主要焦点，她举例说明了对专业领域之间传统界限的拒绝，这些领域往往开始塑造和专业化性别正义专家、教师、非政府组织活动家和出版作家。是什么解释了她将《非洲女权宪章》的原则以及泛非解放政治应用于她的日常生活和工作的方式？我们讨论了为什么我们反对并试图建立世界水论坛的人民替代方案，该论坛旨在向全球北方的市场开放非洲的水。