Explain how some gender, sexual and family dynamics in African societies are unique and how some are similar to other societies.
Assignment –
Explain how some gender, sexual and family dynamics in African societies are unique and how some are similar to other societies.
Please include in your discussion a reference to precolonial Yoruba gender norms and ideas around sexuality as alluded to in film “Rafiki”.
Readings/Film as mentioned above that you can choose to reference:
Session 6 Readings/Films – Topic: Gender /Kinship
1) Amadiume, Ifi (1987) “ Introduction” and “ Ideology of Gender” Male Daughters, Female
Husbands : Gender and Sex in African Society “ London. Zed Books.
2) Kihato, Caroline (2013) “ Turning the Home Inside-Out- Private Space and Everyday Politics” in
Migrant Women of Johannesburg : Everyday Life in an in Between City.pp.90-112.Palgrave
Macmillan. (dont have this attachment but feel free to google if you'd like to read/use it!)