Female Teachers, Sexual Harassment, and African Oral Traditional Storytelling: Amplifying Lived Experience for Safer Schools

Utilizing the African Oral Traditional Storytelling (AOTS) Framework and African feminist perspectives, this book boldly confronts the pervasive issue of sexual harassment prevalent in schools across western and southern Africa, issuing an urgent call for improvement at curriculum and policy level.This unique, storied work foregrounds the lived experiences of female teachers in senior high schools in Ghana and puts these experiences in conversation with those from across Western and Southern African contexts, making a significant contribution to decolonial practice in knowledge production.Making a compelling and critical contribution to the discourse on social justice in education, chapters amplify marginalized voices and challenge the ‘hidden curriculum’ of gender-based violence, highlighting the urgent need for systemic change in how schools and all educational stakeholders address sexual harassment in educational settings.Combining storytelling, cultural worldviews, policy recommend