African Gender Systems 3.0 UNITS

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This course examines the indigenous gender systems in African communities and their continuities in the African diaspora, i.e., Afro-Caribbean and African American, from an Afrocentric perspective. The central principle of these systems is gender complementary which means that male and female are understood as complements to each other in all aspects of social relations, such as economics, gender construction, courtship, family & kinship, marital relationships, social activism, and socio-political organization. This course explores the various manifestations of gender complementarity in African communities across space and time.