Women in Pre-colonial Africa: West Africa

Amoah-Boampong, Cyrelene; Agyeiwaa, Christabel

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“…Thus, the development of women's movement accounts necessitated the creation of a putative past, a storehouse of collective memory, where a pantheon of heroine resides, waiting to be invoked to authenticate contemporary women's struggles. Consequently, most women activism literature include an account of a pre‐colonial world where women's agency and power were embedded in traditional institutions and power structures (Akyeampong & Obeng, 1995; Allman & Tashjian, 2000; Amadiume, 1995; Amoah‐Boampong & Agyeiwa, 2021; Saidi, 2021). However, during the nationalist phase, nationalism became a major obstacle to the fight for women's rights because “without a movement that can negotiate the boundaries of the power of male‐dominated movements, nationalism imposes its hegemony on the women it mobilizes” (Hassim, 2006).…”

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The contentious Ghanaian: An historical appraisal of social movements in Ghana

Sapong

2023

History Compass

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Ideas of freedom, liberty, and social justice are germane to most societies, including African societies. The quest for these values also often involves contentions, dialog, and compromise. Sadly, the often‐told stories of political and social change in Africa are brush‐stroked with bloodshed, tears, and anguish. This Africa of pessimism, unfulfilled dreams, state‐sponsored violence, and civil wars is a familiar headline in the global North. This work, however, proposes that African countries such as Ghana have been resolving their disagreements and contentions through other means. These range from subtle, subversive, noncompliant and complex responses to the less preferred direct and open confrontation with authority. Secondly, the historiography of protest movements in Ghana reveals a lingering preference for twentieth century social movements, neglecting nineteenth century forms of protest and social movement bases, which employed subtlety, noncompliance, and sometimes, direct confrontation. Lastly, initial social movement literature showed a preponderance of male‐dominated narratives, which eventually led to the creation of female‐inspired alternate narratives. Using selected works in social movement theory, general surveys on the history of Ghana, monographs, journal articles, book chapters and unpublished theses, this article seeks to offer a panoramic view of the history‐writing of social movements and its prospects in Ghana.

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