Re-Inventing Africa Matriarchy, Religion and Culture
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
19.02.2026
Verlag
Bloomsbury USASeitenzahl
224
Maße (L/B/H)
21,5/13,9/1,9 cm
Gewicht
222 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-350-50920-7
This extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa, one made and written by Africans. Here Ifi Amadiume 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.
Amadiume 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. She uncovers the hidden matriarchal history of Africa, which continues to empower women in political struggle throughout the continent. She looks at the masculinization of indigenous African religions, effected largely by the imposition of Christianity and Islam. Ultimately, she 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.
This Essential Amadiume edition features a new foreword by the author in which she reflects on the historical moment at which the book was written, how it was originally received, and whether anything has changed since.
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