Ex-UN chief examines gender, culture in new book

Our Reporter

A FOREMOST gender/development expert and former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), Dr. Regina Amadi-Njoku, has written a new book to create awareness on gender and culture in Africa.

Titled: Culture, Gender, Work in Africa – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, the book, which was edited by Cordelia Onu, is Amadi-Njoku’s collection of writings, published by Griots Lounge Publishing under its self-publishing imprint, Book Form.

It examines the changing dynamics of African culture, especially after colonialism, and the impact on gender, development and work.

The book reminisces on how the interplay of the variables of culture and gender determined where Africa stood in the past, led to the continent’s current development challenges and explores how lessons, tools and weapons of the past could be deployed to ensure a brighter future.

The volume is organised in four parts, each introduced by a thought-provoking prologue by Onu, a senior journalist and one-time Deputy Editor of the Daily Champion.