Re-Inventing Africa

Re-Inventing Africa

Ifi Amadiume

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Cover

Essential Amadiume

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction Writing Africa: African social history and the sociology of history

Part One Re-writing History

1 The matriarchal roots of Africa

2 Race and gender: Cheikh Anta Diop’s moral philosophy

3 Theorizing matriarchy in Africa: kinship ideologies and systems in Africa and Europe

4 Women’s achievements in African political systems: transforming culture for 500 years

5 Gender and social movements in Africa: a West African experience

6 Gender and the contestation of religion: a historical perspective on African societies

Part Two Decolonizing History

7 African women and politics: a history of transformation

8 Cycles of Western imperialism: feminism, race, gender, class and power

9 In the company of women: love, struggle, class and our feminisms

Index

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Ifi Amadiume

Re-Inventing Africa