Africa Day offers us the opportunity to revisit the Pan-African dream of total national liberation, equality and self-worth.
This ideal, which has undergirded the struggles of African people, has envisaged full citizenship with its enjoyment of rights and the resources for African people also to live a dignified and fulfilling life. Yet the conceptions of citizenship that have emerged in several African countries have not often fully incorporated women and girls, whose citizenship rights have been contested or subject to delimitations based on cultural and/or religious norms and practices, centered around the control of their bodies and sexualities.
Prof Takyiwaa Manuh will give the memorial lecture on Africa Day (22 May 2014) at the Bloemfontein Campus of the UFS. Manuh is currently Director, Social Development Policy Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
She was Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana where she also served as Director of the Institute of African Studies (2002-2009).
Her research interests are in the areas of African Development; Women’s Rights and Gender Equality; Contemporary African Migrations; and African Higher Education Systems. She has published extensively on these topics in books, monographs and journals.
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