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Amina Mama

I am a Nigerian scholar and researcher committed to ending the oppression of women and transforming the prevailing unequal and unjust gender relations that see so many women abused and their lives wasted. My world view is informed by my heritage as a Nigerian born of mixed Nigerian and English parentage, raised in the multi-ethnic, multi-religious and northern Nigerian town of Kaduna, with a family home in the ancient town on Bida.

 

 

 

 

 

In Conversation:  The Ghanaian Women's Manifesto Movement

Fatima Adamu

I have been teaching at the Department of Sociology, Usmanu Dan Fodiyo University, Sokoto since 1986. Since then, I have been involved in research and teaching on gender issues at local, national and international levels. I have secured some research funding on women and health, women and decision making and women and religion, women and the state etc. I have also done some consultancy jobs for national and international bodies on developing National Gender Strategy, Promoting women’s rights under Shariah legal system, and gender mainstreaming.

Gender and Media in Africa: An Idea for a Curriculum

Posted : Wed, 2009-09-23 15:43
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Gender and Media in Africa: An Idea for a Curriculum

The course, Gender and Media in Africa takes an analytical and critical approach to the study of the media’s role in social constructions of gender with emphasis on the African experience. The first part of the course covers issues of the political-economy of the media and its relationship to gender representations in media texts. The second part is devoted to analyses, interpretations and evaluations of media content. It also looks at ways of challenging the images and messages regarding women and men that audiences receive on a daily basis from the media- this section concludes by looking at contemporary African gender and media activism and research.

 

 


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