| #1184311 in Books | Zed Books | 1997-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.70 x5.44l,.93 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Goes beyond the matriarchy/patriarchy divide|By rdf|She also describes " 'dual-sex' systems, 'each sex manages its own affairs and women's interests are represented at all levels" which I found much more eye opening than what you would expect from the title.
The book is well written and gets its point across clearly, without suffering too badly from the repetition i||
'A new understanding of Africa is the clear call expounded in this excellent book... [The author's] work skilfully points out to what she believes to be the most urgent project in African scholarship: deconstruction, demystification and decolonisation of
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...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture | Ifi Amadiume. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
