Gendered Dimensions and Coping Strategies in War Situations in Ada Okere Agbasimalo’s The Forest Dames

War and armed conflicts remain a major challenge in Africa despite varied global interventions in contemporary times. According to Patricia Danzi, Regional Director for Africa for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in an article ‘Conflict is still Africa’s biggest challenge in 2020’, “Africais struggling to cope with existing situations that strain already limited attention and resources”. More so, Mark Gersovitz and Kriger Norma (2013) define a civil war as a politically organized, large-scale, sustained, physically violent conflict that occurs within a country principally among large important groups of its inhabitants or citizens over the monopoly of physical resources within the state. Civil war is a fierce clash between a state and one or more coordinated non-state participants in the state’s territory.

Keywords: Gendered Dimensions Coping Strategies War Situations The Forest Dames

Authors

• Mobolanle Ebunoluwa SOTUNSA
  Department of Languages and Literary Studies
  Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria
  sotunsam@babcock.edu.ng
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• Afolabi Ajibola ONI
  Department of Languages and Literary Studies
  Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria
  oniafolabiajibola@yahoo.com
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