Description This extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa.
Dedicated to the diasporic African communities in their struggle to construct alternative, anti-racist and anti-imperialist epistemologies of self-representation and self-generated ideals, this is the beginning of a new vision of Africa, from the powerful voice of an African woman.. uncovers the hidden matriarchal history of Africa which continues to empower women in political struggle throughout the continent looks at the masculinization of indigenous African religions, effected largely by the imposition of Christianity and Islam provides a guide to the main Afro-centric social theorists, writing a new social history of their continent.
The book explores how imperialism, violence, patriarchy and class-based social structures - originally imposed by colonialism - have become internalized to result in a contemporary Africa cursed with neo-colonial states.
This is such a book.
Professor Amadiume calls instead for a new history of Africa, made and written by Africans.
The author of the best-selling Male Daughters/Female Husbands here issues a challenge to western anthropologists to recognize their own complicity in producing a version of Africa that is often little more than a reflection of their own class-based, patriarchal thought.
Description This extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa
