About this ebook
Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. The contributors analyze the historical and modern ways in which gender expectations have enabled women in African societies to be systematically abused and marginalized, from unpaid labor to poor representation in decision-making areas. Exploring regions such as rural Uganda, the suburbs of Zimbabwe, the Gold Coast, South Africa, and Nigeria, contributors incorporate a wide range of academic theories and disciplines to establish the need for improved policy implementation on gender issues at both the local and national government levels in Africa.
About the author
Egodi Uchendu is professor of history at the University of Nigeria.
Ngozi Edeagu is a PhD candidate in African history at the Bayreuth International School of Graduate Studies (BIGSAS), Universität Bayreuth, Germany and is lecturer at Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike in Nigeria.
