Women of Pan-African Movement II

Catalog description

This course is foregrounded on a historical and contemporary set of cutting-edge scholarship that focuses on the contribution so of Pan-African women to the global Pan- African movement. The course examines theories such as the social construction of gender, Afro-Feminism and African women's agency as pivotal to the contemporary debates on gender, women and global Pan-African movement. Students will interrogate the contributions of Pan-African women's institutions such as but not limited to the UNIA's women's organizations like the Black Cross Nurses, the All-African Women's Revolutionary Union, All-African Women's Conference in Ghana, etc. This seminar course seeks to transform students into agents in their education through a liberatory and transformative approach to knowledge production.