Vertiefungsseminar 8220 Women 8217 s Wars 8221 in West African History

The aim of this course is to examine women revolts in West Africa during the colonial and post-independence periods. The causes and consequences of these revolts are examined especially in Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon. The British and French colonial policies contributed to women revolts. The women mobilised against colonial officials, male regulatory societies and other institutions that were against their empowerment. After independence and with the re-introduction of multiparty politics in West Africa in the 1990s, women revolts were part of a political struggle for change in both the socio-economic and political domains. The consequences of their revolts were far-reaching. Literatur Brempong. Arhin. The Role of Yaa Asantewaa in the 1900 Asante War of Resistance. Le Griot, No. VIII (2000). Ifeka-Moller, Caroline. Female Militancy and Colonial Revolt: The Womens War of 1929, Eastern Nigeria. In: Perceiving Women, edited by Shirley Ardener, London: Malaby Press, 1975, 127-157. Kah, Henry Kam. Womens Resistance in Cameroons Western Grassfields: The Power of Symbols, Organisation, and Leadership, 1957-61. African Studies Quarterly 12, 3 (2011): 67-91. The Earth is Ours: Sex, Politics and Women Revolts in Cameroon, 1990-2006. Cameroon Journal of Studies in the Commonwealth 1, 2 (2012): 79-100. Terretta, Meredith. A Miscarriage of Revolution: Cameroonian Women and Nationalism. In: Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien. Nr. 12/2007, 7. Jg. 61-90. Van Allen, Judith. ‘Aba Riots or Igbo Womens War? Ideology, Stratification and the Invisibility of Women. In: The United States, Africa and the World: A History Reader, edited by Emmanuel Konde, Janice Sumler-Edmond and Linda Tomlinson, Acton, MA: Tapestry Press Ltd, 1997, 308-314. Brempong. Arhin. The Role of Yaa Asantewaa in the 1900 Asante War of Resistance. Le Griot, No. VIII (2000). Ifeka-Moller, Caroline. Female Militancy and Colonial Revolt: The Womens War of 1929, Eastern Nigeria. In: Perceiving Women, edited by Shirley Ardener, London: Malaby Press, 1975, 127-157. Kah, Henry Kam. Womens Resistance in Cameroons Western Grassfields: The Power of Symbols, Organisation, and Leadership, 1957-61. African Studies Quarterly 12, 3 (2011): 67-91. The Earth is Ours: Sex, Politics and Women Revolts in Cameroon, 1990-2006. Cameroon Journal of Studies in the Commonwealth 1, 2 (2012): 79-100. Terretta, Meredith. A Miscarriage of Revolution: Cameroonian Women and Nationalism. In: Stichproben. Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien. Nr. 12/2007, 7. Jg. 61-90. Van Allen, Judith. ‘Aba Riots or Igbo Womens War? Ideology, Stratification and the Invisibility of Women. In: The United States, Africa and the World: A History Reader, edited by Emmanuel Konde, Janice Sumler-Edmond and Linda Tomlinson, Acton, MA: Tapestry Press Ltd, 1997, 308-314. Bemerkungin englischer Sprache Geschichte (BA, PO 2013) Kernfach Universität Düsseldorf WiSe 2015/16 Dr. Kam Kah Henry