Femmes en Afrique ancienne

“Busy your hands with spinning, keep your feet at home and you will be quite well dressed” (Tertullien, De cultu feminarum, 2.13). Looking at the ancient African society, the Neolithic Atlas and Sahara rock walls, too few ancient texts, innumerable but partial and fragmentary Latin inscriptions, figurative monuments and some objects allow us to get images of women, to approach their daily lives in a male dominated society. They are concubines, wives, mothers, nurses, courtesans, slaves or servants, but also, in a fundamentally hostile environment, archers, artists, pedagogues, patrons.