![]() ![]() They rationalize that the running of the Africa world is not the preserve for males and thus there should be absolute equality of both sexes in all spheres of life. ![]() They protest against dehumanization, political enslavement and social oppression. These years of subjugation have, however, produced in today’s women relentless questioning of the status quo. ![]() In those days, these women, in addition to experiencing the same op pressive social condition as their male counterparts in a developing world, were subjected to extra repressive burdens arising from the socio-cultural structures of patriarchy and gender hierarchy. Encased in such a cultural mystique, the African women were particularly driven by a community sense since culture obviates individualism. Most often, female are accorded inferior roles and such long years of cultural suppression and intimidation, unfortunately, misled the women into an underestimation of their capabilities and self worth. From birth, through childhood and adolescence, to adulthood, Africans receive from society and others around the messages and feedbacks which launch them into roles and behaviors considered appropriate for males and females respectively. ![]()
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