Before colonialism black South Africans viewed sex and morality very differently than today.
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South African customary law should be understood from the perspective of dissonance between the past and the present.
A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
Bride price practice has both social and psychological implications for the men who pay and those women for whom it is paid.
Here’s how cultural practices are playing a role in many countries in incentivizing parents to educate their girls.
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Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto
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Senior Lecturer at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and Entrepreneurial Development
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University of San Diego
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Director, Centre for Legal Integration in Africa, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of History, University of Johannesburg
