HIS5118 WOMEN, THE STATE AND POLITICS IN AFRICAN HISTORY
This course examines the formal and informal participation of African women in politics, their interaction with the state, and their role in society. The aim is to understand women as active objects and subjects of change who manipulate social, economic, cultural, and political constraints and opportunities to transform their individual and collective lives. Themes include reconstructing the role of women in pre-colonial African society, women's responses to colonial intervention and rule, African women in the independence struggle, African women in the post-colonial political economy, women and the military, and women146s contemporary political and social activism.