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| Title: | Taking the Beast by its Horns: Formal Resistance to Women's Oppression in Africa |
| Author: | Tamale, Sylvia |
| Year: | 1996 |
| Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pages: | 5-21 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa British Cameroons |
| Subjects: | protest rebellions 1958 women Anlu uprising Women's Issues Economics and Trade History and Exploration Law, Human Rights and Violence Equality and Liberation Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights divorce Historical/Biographical Status of Women |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/24482766 |
| Abstract: | The present paper examines under what circumstances African women decided to resist the structures of political and gender domination they were and still are subjected to on the continent. It addresses two questions in particular: How do African women conceptualize when they have been wronged? How do they then construct a sense of entitlement in their claim for rights and in challenging formal authority? It discusses both colonial and postcolonial cases of women's resistance in sub-Saharan Africa. Two case studies of women's collective defiance during the colonial period are revisited: the 1929 women's war in Iboland, southeastern Nigeria, and the 1958/1959 Anlu rebellion in the British Cameroons. In addition the paper considers three contemporary cases of African women who have single-handedly challenged various forms of political and gender oppression and discrimination: Wambu Otieno of Kenya, Laeticia Mukurasi of Tanzania; and Unity Dow of Botswana. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French. |
