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Striving to Achieve Gender Equity in Education - A Zimbabwean Experience – Successes and Challenges
by Owence Chabaya and Enna Sukutai Gudhlanga
This paper is an analytical exposition of the work that has been done by the Zimbabwean Government and International Agencies in trying to redress gender inequalities in education. It briefly describes the colonial education system, the traditional patriarchal society and the foreign religions that gave rise to such gender imbalances in the Zimbabwean society. The achievements, challenges and constraints that have been encountered in trying to achieve gender equity in education will also be discussed. The paper will lastly emerge with some possible practical suggestions on how Zimbabwe, even though it has poor infrastructure and shortage of other resources, can achieve a successful gender balance in education.
Critical Capacities: Facing the Challenges of Intellectual
Development in Africa
by Amina Mama
This inaugural Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity Lecture, Institute
of Social Studies, 28th April, 2004, presents a critical analysis of the challenges
that have inspired and constrained African intellectual development in the changing
postcolonial context of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
Gender,
Access to Learning and the Production of Knowledge in Africa
by N'Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba