African

This syllabus is designed for senior undergraduate, or early postgraduate students. Its objectives are:

The AGI’s Strengthening Gender and Women’s Studies for Africa’s Transformation (GWS Africa) Project pursues the Institute’s mission by developing and disseminating intellectual resources, and supporting intellectual dialogue and networking.

This part of our review essays covers an introduction to the broad area of gender-based violence for teaching. PART TWO presents ideas about different 'sectors' of gender-based violence work.

This review essay is designed to offer a broad introduction to critical concepts before exploring ‘gender and sexualities”. No section is offered as a full review, but as a profile of areas that can be taken up for integration into teaching in different ways.

The following pages can only be described as an attempt on providing a glimpse of an insight into the vastness that is – today - defined as Gender-based Violence (GBV) and its impacts on the African landscape. The sheer size of the terrain reflects the fact that GBV seems to be a rather resilient and destructive, yet largely hidden social activity, that is firmly rooted in the existence and prevalence of patriarchal relationships of power at every level of human interaction within the historically often male-dominated societies around the globe.