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This 5 page report discusses the various changes in the status of women and women's roles in Africa through pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial times. The entire issue of gender and gender roles serves as just one more example of the depth of complexity of any issue related to Africa, whether in terms of history or the modern Africa. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Africa. The differences between the role of women in the pre-colonial, colonial and post colonial days of African nations has been all the more remarkable in that European ideals
and expectations of women are also overlaid in traditional African attitudes. It is also an interesting point of discussion since there are numerous peoples in Africa who still live
in ways similar to that of their ancestors of pre-colonial times. Therefore, womens roles have made little change but neither have the roles of men, children or the elderly
changed. Modern students of gender roles and their evolution must also understand that in some parts of Africa, womens role in the community were equal to and, in some
circumstances, superior to the roles of men. The entire issue of gender and gender roles serves as just one more example
of the depth of complexity of any issue related to Africa, whether in terms of history or the modern Africa. For example, according to Wells (1998), the life of one
of the best known women in South African history, alternately known as "Eva" and "Krotoa" serves as an example of how a womans life demonstrates to one historian that Krotoas
people, the Khoena, were "irredeemable savages" while to "black nationalist writers, such as Khoena historian, Yvette Abrahams, she personifies the widespread rape and abuse of black women by the invaders"
(pp. 17). The paradox presented by Eva/Krotoa is just one of innumerable examples of how African women and their roles have been interpreted based on the biases and culture
of the person who is doing the interpretation. Womens Roles in Pre-Colonial Africa Most of the historiography of Africa has suggested that until
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