AFST-232 : Gender Theory and Practice in Africa

This course is a systematic study and analysis of uniqueness of traditional African gender philosophies, theories, and practices within the family, community and society; study the cosmological and social privileging of social and economic achievements and acquisition of wisdom as determinants of individual's role and status in society; compares authentic African system of gender and social construction against the rigid privileging of biology as the sole determinant of people's role, status, and pattern of belonging and participation in society and economy.