Bowker Data Service Summary
This text addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone. It looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership.
Description for Bookstore
This book addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone and the part it plays in history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership
Main Description
This book addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership.
Main Description
This book uses Sierra Leone to explore gendered political authority, illuminating the roles it plays in women's history, political history, and political transformation. Sierra Leone is in many ways an exceptional case, for in contrast to other areas where colonialism destroyed female leadership, colonial agents within the region accommodated extant hierarchical structures, including female leaders who controlled land, people, and armed men. Author Lynda Day shows that women chiefs in this region demonstrate a distinct model of female political leadership, combining elements from both complex state-based political systems and parallel lineage-based gendered systems. Through this unusual combination of means of legitimization, they set themselves apart from other female political authority figures in West, Central, and Southern Africa.