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Sexuality Bibliography -- Part 1

Teaching and curricula on gender and women.s studies in Africa have predominantly focused on issues of development and/or policy, as indicated by a recent and ongoing survey carried out by the African Gender Institute. At the same time, scholars, practitioners and policy makers recognise that there is a “gap” between policy and its implementation.


Elaine Tweneboah

I attended the Associateship Programme at the African Gender Institute from May to August 2002. At that time I was at crossroads in my professional career. A few months earlier, I had completed an MPhil in Environmental Science at the University of Ghana, Legon. Around the same time too, I was a team member on the Women’s Health in the City of Accra Project, a collaboration between the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Michigan and the Institute of African Studies of University of Ghana, Legon…