Gender and Development in Nigeria: Concepts, Issues, and Strategies

This event brings three experts in the field to discuss gender discourse and policy approaches in Nigeria. The event celebrates the recent publication of Gender and Development in Nigeria: Concepts, Issues, and Strategies, edited by professors Oluwafunmilayo J. Para-Mallam, mni, and Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome. The book asks: What conceptual and theoretical frames of analysis explain gender identity, status, roles, and relationships across Nigeria’s richly diverse and culturally complex ethnic nationalities? What are the implications of such diversity and complexity for gender and development thinking, planning, and policy? For academic as well as policy-related reasons, it is important that gender and development issues and analyses reflect the socio-cultural, political, and economic dimensions of the Nigerian state from the perspective of those who live Nigerian realities. The book is a compendium of chapters written by gender scholars and practitioners from various disciplinary/occupational fields under broad thematic sections.

Speakers: Professor Oluwafunmilayo Josephine Para-Mallam, mni, director of studies, National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, Nigeria; Professor Clement J. Dakas, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) Principal Partner, CJ Dakas SAN & Co.; and Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College.

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