Feminist Author, Malaika Wa Azania, challenges the ways within which the role of women today needs to be challenged and that the role of African women pre-colonially is not a homogenous one.
Much African gender research draws extensively on the discipline of anthropology, and the predominant emphasis in many gender initiatives on the continent remains technocratic and narrowly developmentalist. Alternatives to traditional anthropological and technicist methods and ideas have been developed by feminist scholars in a variety of fields.