Good English

The art of speaking good English requires constant practice and the speaker must also be reading a variety of books written in good English.The following passage will help to elucidate what I mean:
The participation of African women in the political processes of their respective communities is an area that has attracted much scholarly attention.While some works have focused on women's roles in indigenous African political organization, others have traced the history of their engagement in politics from the colonial period to decolonisation and the achievement of independence.From the corpus of literature on the participation of African women in politics,we can delineate two opposing paradigms: one that hinges largely on the romanticization of African women's political history before European colonial domination, and another that emphasizes their political subordination and invisibility..According to the former paradigm, women had enormous political power in their various societies until the imposition of European colonial rule and the Victorian gender ethos, when such power was undermined or entirely eroded. The latter paradigm holds that the current relatively marginal involvement of African women in political process can best be explained by the lingering inhibitive cultural and patriarchal forces against women's engagement in politics that characterised African societies before European contact. The answer to the question of how much political power and control African women had and have continued to exercise does not lie in either of the two paradigms listed above. Rather,it lies somewhere between them,irrespective of the particular society one focuses on.It is important that any true assessment of the role of women in politics must look at the major arenas of political power and authority as well as how gender roles were played out in such theatres.
Both men and women wielded political power and authority9( though in different degrees) in precolonial Igbo society,where social roles and responsibilities were the channels through which power diffused, and where gender equality was measured in comparative worth.Hierarchical relationships in Igbo society were determined by age, experience, ability, marital status, and rites of initiation.

The English grammar in the above passage is what any learnerof English should imitate .I shall give more points on grammar in my next article.