Donderdag 12 Maart 2020

In this first of two keynote lectures co-sponsored by CERES research school and the International Institute of Social Studies, Dr Robtel Neajai Pailey will argue that while African women’s concerns about their subjective roles as equal citizens were often sidelined during nationalist liberation movements, the post-independence era has presented more meaningful opportunities for women in the continent to demand equality of access to citizenship rights, resources and representation. Citizenship laws in different parts of Africa explicitly discriminate based on gender, ethnicity, race, and religion, with women bearing the brunt of these inequities. In particular, African women have faced structural, institutional and cultural barriers to ensuring full citizenship in policy and praxis, with contestations in the post-independence era centring around the fulfilment of citizenship rights embedded in law, practice and lived experience.

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