Ifi Amadiume
Nigerian poet, anthropologist, and essayist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ifi Amadiume is a Nigerian poet, anthropologist and essayist. She joined the Religion Department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, US, in 1993. Biography Born in Kaduna to Igbo parents, Ife Amadiume was educated in Nigeria before moving to Britain in 1971. She studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, gaining a BA and PhD in social anthropology respectively. She was a research fellow for a year at the University of Nigeria, Enugu, and taught and lectured in the UK, Canada, US and Senegal. Her fieldwork in Africa resulted in two ethnographic monographs relating to the Igbo: African Matriarchal Foundations , and the award-winning Male Daughters, Female Husband . The latter is considered groundbreaking owing to the fact that a number of years before the articulation of queer theory, it argued that gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference. Her book of theoretical essays, Reinventing Africa, appeared in 1998. Extracts from her work is included in the anthology Daughters of Africa .
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- Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987) (356)
- Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture (1997) (175)
- The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing and Social Justice (2000) (73)
- Daughters of the goddess, daughters of imperialism : African women struggle for culture, power and democracy (2000) (58)
- Reinventing Africa: Matriarchy, religion and culture (2000) (51)
- Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900-1960 (2006) (31)
- Sexuality , African Religio-Cultural Traditions and Modernity : Expanding the Lens (2006) (28)
- Afrikan Matriarchal Foundations: The Igbo Case (1995) (28)
- [Reinventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion & Culture] (2000) (28)
- Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Systems in Africa and Europe (2005) (21)
- Black womanhood : images, icons, and ideologies of the African body (2008) (20)
- Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women, Culture, Power and Democracy (2000) (17)
- Prophecy, Authenticity, Oppositional Models: Writers and Politics in Africa (2004) (13)
- African Women: Voicing Feminisms and Democratice Futures (2001) (11)
- Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial Enchantments: African Matriarchs and Mammy Water (2011) (10)
- Bodies, Choices, Globalizing Neocolonial EnchantmentsAfrican Matriarchs and Mammy Water (2002) (6)
- Family and Culture in Africa (2017) (4)
- Of Kola Nuts, Taboos, Leadership, Women’s Rights, and Freedom: New Challenges from Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra (2017) (3)
- Gender Field Experience, Method and Theory (2017) (1)
- Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History (review) (2001) (1)
- Jan Knappert, The Aquarian Guide to African Mythology. London: Aquarian Press, 1990, 272 pp., £7.99, ISBN 0 85030 885 2, paperback. (1992) (0)
- Gloria Chuku. Igbo Women and Economic Transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900–1960. (African Studies.) New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xiii, 320. $75.00. (2006) (0)
- Let My Work Not Be in Vain:: Doing Matriarchy, Thinking ‘Matriarchitarian’ with Africa in the Twenty-first Century (2015) (0)
- Class and Gender in 'Anthills of the Savannah' - A Critique (1990) (0)
- Along an African Border: Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets. By Sónia Silva (2012) (0)
- Grassroots Democracy: Kinship and Women's Political Economy as Sites of Development (2014) (0)
- Citizenship, Rights and Freedoms in Contesting Religious Narratives of Gods and Goddesses (1998) (0)
- Onaiwu W. Ogbomo, When Men and Women Mattered: a history of gender relations among the Owan of Nigeria. Rochester NY and Woodbridge, Suffolk: University of Rochester Press, 1997, 220 pp., £37.00 ($39.50), ISBN 1 878822 78 0. (1999) (0)
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