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Based on group interviews conducted in Ivory Coast, this article examines gender relations in rural areas based on the experiences of villagers from two of the country’s major ethnic groups in the south: the Akans and the Krous. At the crossroads of decolonial feminist theories and postcolonial third-space theorizing, the article examines the identity strategies that shape the social constructions of gender equality and access to land. From the cultural hybridity of these representations emerges a dynamic of negotiations with ambivalences, resistances, and encounters, which testifies of a reframing of power relations in the making.