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Globalization: The idea of a 'borderless world' where culture, language, space and expertise would no longer be barriers to human interaction and emancipation. It is a process of pervasive social change in which virtually everything is transformed.

Globalized culture: Situationally used in this study to depict the process of globalization, which may not necessarily be utopian in context. Rather , seeking to tie us all - nations, communities, individuals - closely together through the social, economic and technological spheres.

Housewifisation: A colonial system of domesticating married women who work at home, doing cooking, cleaning et cetera but do not have any job outside the house.

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In Africa society, we are afraid of intense feelings, we have been taught that certain kind of behaviors are appropriate and other are not. Men and women are assigned societal roles and expectations that blunt their feelings, and eventually blunt their ability to feel.

Meanwhile, the advent of the phenomenon of globalization in parts of Africa, women in Nigeria were often unduly exposed to varying forms of institutional discriminations as a result of the simple fact of their femaleness; ought to have been understood on the basis of its mutual usefulness (Obbo 2005:22). The tradition social structures in the country have glaringly offered limited incentives to the amendment of the prevalent, skewed distribution of power between men and women. Peculiar cultural practices, such as early/forced marriage, wife-inheritance, denied inheritance right and various widowhood practices have been potent impediments to the evolution of imperative entrepreneurial spirit among the womenfolk (Adeniran 2007:4). Equally, as part of evil doctrine of European on our own land, the coming of the colonial rule worsened the state of womanhood in the country. Specifically, the institutionalization of the ideology of domesticity (Housewifisation), which focused on offer of domestic education for the framework, denied the access to formal educational training.

Globalization as a Culture. Cultures as a learned, adapted way of existence is often predicated upon a full-fledged language associated with technical inventiveness, a complex of expertise that in turn depends on a capacity to organize exchange relationship between communities (Kuper 1994:0).

However, discourses on global culture are more likely to generate an admix of analyses centering to is promises and threats. Therefore, the most significant issue to be clear about is that globalization is not itself the emergence of a Globalized culture. Rather, it connotes a complex pattern of interdependencies that have arisen in the late-modern world (Tomlinson 1999:25). He observed further that globalization is heavy with implications for all spheres of social existence - the economic, the political, the environmental, the educational, the technological, as well as, the cultural. In all these realms, it has the effect of tying 'local life' to 'global structures, processes and events', that is, the Globalized culture. For instance, while youth restiveness in the oil-rich Niger Delta region in Nigeria would have implications for socio-economic life in the 'West'; so also, feminist activism in the 'West' does impact on women's empowerment drive in Nigeria.