What is it about?
Gender in African societies is often constructed differently than Western gender constructions. Women chiefs in many parts of Africa have played significant leadership roles for generations. Women Chiefs played an important role during and after Sierra Leone's devastating civil war.
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Why is it important?
Contemporary notions of gender fluidity as well as contestations around women's leadership can be aided by exploring how these concepts manifest themselves in other societies.
Perspectives
I have me with and admired the way women chiefs in Sierra Leone handle their life-long positions of "natural" leadership. Their positions of authority are at once a throwback to earlier times and a manifestation of contemporary liberal democratic politics.
Lynda Day
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This page is a summary of: Women Chiefs and Post War Reconstruction in Sierra Leone, African and Asian Studies, March 2015, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15692108-12341328.
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