Empowering African Women: Restoring Gender Equality in World History

Abstract

Article Review: “Women in Sub-Saharan Africa” and “African Feminisms” Main Idea: Restoration of women to the World History and Empowering women for gender equality with special focus on African women Women, ever since time immemorial, have remained defined as inferior to men. Such definition limits many scholars from analyzing women's strengths and compiling them into world history for the incoming female-gendered population. The need for their inclusion in world history calls for gender equality in all odds of life. However, "Women in Sub-Saharan Africa" serves as an article whose authors saw the incompleteness in world history except for women history inclusion. For this reason, the article analyzed Sub-Saharan African women's history to understand better what society perceives as a woman role back then and the changes experienced with time. Berger and White explore the social, economic, political and religious places for non-Western women cite that there are substantial similarities that these women experience in the course of their living, most especially with their defined roles by their society based on their gender. Paying close attention to Desiree Lewis article "African feminism", one can argue that the inclusion of woman history in world history has proved essential to many scholars. In the article, Desiree argues that the changes expressed by African feminist dialogues have abandoned critiquing westerns feminism but rather remains goal-oriented and more pro-active. These articles aim at expressing how African women have changed from what the world and society thought of them some centuries back. Initially, out of lack of self-confidence, African women believed that they would not conquer in men dominating the world and, worst of all, thought of western women as more superior than them. However, based on the two articles, the defined histories of the African women have expressed the changes they...