GENDER EQUALITY OR INEQUALITY IN AFRICAN? AFRICAN FEMINIST THINKING

Abstract

The study addresses the discussion of gender and culture in Africa, delimiting
some territories, contributing to the decentralization of Western epistemologies through the discussion of gender in Africa in the perspective of African / theoretical. With the objective of discussing African culture from the perspective of gender devoid of Western conception, this work refers to African thoughts, highlighting other epistemologies and, aiming, on the one hand, to the decentralization of Euro-American hegemonic knowledge and, on the other, to understanding of the complex gender-related debate in Africa, focusing on the following question: Gender equality or inequality in this area? Theoretically-methodologically, a Cognitive Analysis of the conceptions of authors of the African gender studies was carried out.