The Leadership of Pan African Women of Faith, Truth-Telling, and Truthful Reconciliation

precis: This essay explores “successful attempts to move carefully from truth-telling to ecumenical actions of just and truthful reconciliation” through the scholarly and experiential lens of two Pan African women of faith in the North American-Turtle Island context. Both are or were leaders in the ecumenical and interfaith movements nationally and globally. Both were born by 1939, during the colonial period in Africa following the Berlin Conference of European Powers and the United States in 1884–85 and the season of Jim Crow laws and practices where, despite this, their Pan African Indigenous identities inspired their agency and impact.