This paper examines some of the problems and dilemmas that African women scholars face in U.S. academic institutions: how such experiences inform the nature of their relationships with colleagues a…
In Nigeria, access to political, economic and social leadership positions is difficult because the society thinks leadership belongs to men. Women's representation in elective and appointi…
The two excerpts above paint a very gloomy picture of the overall economic, technological, social and political fortunes of West Africa. More depressing is the fact that these vital statistics have…
This book attempts to show that the teaching-learning process in higher education, and religion, taught and learned through non-formal and informal education (or the hidden curriculum), and other s…
Africa needs its universities. As the pace of technological and social change speeds up, the challenges of knowing ourselves as African people continue to change subtly. As we struggle to produce n…
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 and 1820 and the more recent 1888, 1889, 1960, 2106, 2122 and 2242 reflect a rights-based approach to human security with a focus on the prevention o…
In this article, I use feminist political ecology to reframe displacement with the intention of revealing its multiscalar, micropolitical, and differentiated dimensions. Rebecca Elmhirst writes, …
Although in recent time, a few works are appearing on the publishing scene on women's experiences in politics, education, workplace, economy and education, these focus largely of the broad experien…
One of the findings of a 2007 survey done by the South African Commission on Gender Equality is that more than 30 percent of the respondents are of the opinion that women are too emotional to handl…
A study of the interrelationship of gender and nationalism which places itself, as does this book, within the ambit of postcolonial critique, has two important impacts on that body of critical di…