Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion And Culture
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ISBN : 9781856495349
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Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture
This extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa. 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.
Professor Amadiume calls instead for a new history of Africa, made and written by Africans. This is such a book.
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.
* 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.
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.
Specifications of Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture
GENERAL | |
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Author | Ifi Amadiume |
Binding | Paperback |
Language | English |
ISBN-10 | 1856495345 |
ISBN-13 | 9781856495349 |
Publisher | Zed Books |
Number Of Pages | 224 |
Publication Date | 1997-12-01 |
DIMENSIONS | |
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Height | 8.5 inch. |
Length | 5.44 inch. |
Width | 0.7 inch. |
Weight | 0.5 pounds. |
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