African women's history is a vast topic that embraces a wide variety of societies in over 50
countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations …

Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women—the
Mothers—make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the …

This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a
study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in …

This anthropological study offers a crucial contribution to scholarly debates about the
making of African modernity by considering the implementation and reception of gender …

This paper examines how forest communities in Cameroon engage in social transformation
when faced with social injustices and uneven power relations in their interactions with local …

This book explores how policies of decentralisation and community participation adopted in
Cameroon in 1996 have played out on the ground since 2004. These reforms were carried …

abstract The article reflects on feminist movement building in Southern Africa with a specific
focus on leadership in rural areas and land struggles. It discusses the experience of the …

This paper examines the 2013 municipal elections in Bali subdivision, North West
Cameroon. The ethnography utilises participant observation, semi-structured interviews …

The Role of Women's Secret Societies in Cameroon's Contemporary Politics: the Case of
Takumbeng Page 1 The Role of Women's Secret Societies in Cameroon's Contemporary …

In Cameroon as elsewhere in Africa, the subject of ownership and access to land among
different groups has been an issue of major concern. The arrival of the nomadic Fulani …