This paper draws on Okot p'Bitek's Song of Lawino and other critical voices to argue that
education in Africa is victim of a resilient colonial and colonizing epistemology, which takes …

The knowledge gathered and reviewed in the field of gender studies has been disseminated
globally over the twentieth century but has paid relatively little regard to the contexts and …

Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa,
bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity …

Examining five generations of marriages between African women and European men in a
Gold Coast slave trading port, Daughters of the Trade uncovers the vital role interracial …

Focusing on Kenya's path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa, this book examines and
critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financial inclusion as a development …

In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority
in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple …

This paper challenges the dominant Eurocentric paradigm of gender empowerment and
equal opportunity inherent in the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) used by the United …

This state of the field article presents three questions for students and scholars of childhood:
first, who is included in the history of childhood? Second, why does the history of childhood …

Understandings of African lesbian sexualities have been affected by silence, repression,
and uncertainty. The subject of lesbian experiences and sexualities in Africa constitutes an …

Menstruation signifies the beginning of adulthood, and the female body's biological changes
which allow for reproduction. Around the world it is accompanied by a variety of socio …