Required Readings (on Talis)

David William Cohen; E. S. Atieno Odhiambo. Burying SM: the politics of knowledge and the sociology of power in Africa (No ebook available; request copy from the library)

Martin Charnock;  Marking Customary Law. Men, Women and Colonial Courts in Northern Rhodesia in Marget Hays and Marcia Wright, eds, African Women and the Law, 1982, pp 53-67

Further Reading (on Talis)

Seminar Questions

1. What is customary law?

2. 'Customary law empowered men and elders to control women's lives' Discuss

3. How did the colonial legal system affect gender relations/ women's status?