Gender and Power in Sierra Leone

1. Introduction: Gender and Power
Lynda Day

2. Men’s and Women’s Cultural Associations
Lynda Day

3. Women of Authority before the Colonial Era
Lynda Day

4. Women Chiefs During the Nineteenth-Century Wars of Trade, Expansion, and State Building
Lynda Day

5. Women Leaders and the Mediation of Colonial Rule
Lynda Day

6. Women Chiefs in Building the Independent State
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7. Civil War and the Attack on Women’s Customary Authority
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8. Conclusion
Lynda Day

Keywords: Social Sciences, Ethnicity Studies, Gender Studies, African History, African Politics, African Culture, Sociology, general