Author(s)

Michael O. Nwalutu¹, Felicia I. Nwalutu²

¹Social Justice Education, OISE, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
²Department of History, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

In this work we have argued that the post-independent WeppaWanno patriarchal system has evolved not from its cultural past but as influenced by the duo cultural tragedies implicated in Nupe Islamic invasion and the British/Christian colonial rule. Thus stirring the trajectory from the familiar approach of Western-focused critic of pre- and post-colonial Africa, this paper views the evolving manifestations of feminine and gender-roles in WeppaWannoland as flexible and varied with the positioning of community’s cultural and socio-political experiences through the spectrum of Arabic, and Western colonial influences. The paper demonstrates using qualitative analysis, post-structural leaning, field interviews, and archival records, that while gender and class categories may be critical constituents of WeppaWannocosmology, flexibility of gender as a thought construct was far more important in most part of Africa in the definition of power, although such factors as achievement and ascription were essential.

Gender Roles, Colonial, Perception, Invasion, Cultural Subversion

Nwalutu, M. O., & Nwalutu, F. I. (2019) The Shifting Feminine Statuses among Indigenous Peoples: Rethinking Colonization and Gender Roles among the WeppaWanno People of Mid-Western Nigeria. Sociology Mind, 9, 168-182. doi: 10.4236/sm.2019.93012.