WOMEN HELD A BASICALLY COMPLEMENTARY RATHER THAN SUBORDINATE POSITION TO MEN IN PRE-COLONIAL AFRICA A DELIBERATION

Abstract

Women are not homogenous but heterogeneous. Their statuses differ according to the class, level of education, ethnicity, race, location, and age. The status of women has been argued over a long period. It is argued that women held a basically complementary rather than subordinate position to men in pre-colonial Africa. Different feminist’s perspective and the Marxist will be used as theoretical guidelines for this deliberation. This however depended with the type of societies. This article deliberates on whether women held complementary rather than subordinate position in the recolonial era.