1:  Niara Sudarkasa- “The Status of Women” in Indigenous African Societies PDF
O. W. Ogbomo and Q. O. Ogbomo – Women and Society in Pre-colonial Iyede PDF
Emmanuelle Bouilly, Ophélie Rillon & Hannah Cross- African womens struggles in a gender perspective PDF

 Write down a half-page summary of what you have learnt

 2: Womens Rights and Identities in Pre-colonial Africa
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The Manden Charter
Florence Ebila – ˜A proper woman, in the African tradition: The construction of gender and nationalism in Wangari Maathais autobiography Unbowed”

  Identify how pre colonial African societies protected women’s rights, and discuss the powers women had in some of the societies in the article.