The chapter shows that traditional African society upheld gender binary complementarity and not opposition. It argues that many African men, following colonial and missionary incursion and in a desperation to exhibit the so-called Western civilization, ditched the complementary gender relations of traditional Africa and began aping the oppressive patriarchal values of the West, which created gender marginalization in post-colonial Africa. The chapter explores African cultural corpora and cites various examples to disclose the historical accuracy of the preceding positions.