While it is desirable to inch into the history of the African woman in politics, it should be noted that it is impracticable to exhaust such events especially because Africa and by implication African women developed differently at a different speed. This precludes a generalized view of the ...
Gender PoliticsNGOsPostcolonial/Postcolonialism, Womens/feminist organizationsEastern Africa has the highest rate of women's political representation in government worldwide. This remarkable fact is the result of Eastern African women's movements. Although women were politically active prior to colonialism ...
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In many parts of Africa, for example, the status of women had begun to erode significantly only with the arrival of European colonialism. In those regions, then, the notion that patriarchy was the chief problem—rather than European imperialism—seemed absurd. The conflicts between women in ...
More specifically, drawing on my on-going doctoral research, in which I examine how female students at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa view female political elites, I argue...doi:10.1080/14616742.2017.1400212MichalkoJánInternational Feminist Journal of Politics...
Songs of the Women Migrants: Performance and Identity in South Africa History can change reading practices, anthropologist John Comaroff suggests in his introduction to the centenary edition of The Mafeking Diary of Sol T Pla... D James 被引量: 45发表: 1999年 Popular politics and resistance ...
This role was taken up by women like Makeda, Queen of Sheba. In the kingdom of Kush, the Candaces, who were queens that were famous for their battlefield bravery, exemplified political influence that even hastened the spread of Christianity. Read Women in Ancient Africa Lesson ...
ColonialismGender PoliticsNGOsPostcolonial/Postcolonialism, Womens/feminist organizationsdoi:10.1002/9781118663219.wbegss711Aliza LuftUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison USAAmerican Cancer Society
The book uses African knowledge production strategies that look at the human being holistically, in the prism of Ubuntu, in order to define leadership in Africa from an African perspective, one that celebrates the role of the mother figure and places women at the centre of African values and ...
Society, Women and Literature in Africaexplores the ideological, literary, political, cultural and ethical issues related to feminist writing. She discusses how contemporary African writers have tried to counteract men’s false assumptions about sex, love, society, fecundity and womanhood, and further ...