22. Women Have No Tribe: Gender in African Tradition
What archeology, ethnography, and philosophical interpretation tell us about the diverse and often ambiguous roles of men and women in traditional African societies.
• I. Amadiume, Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (London: 1987).
• I. Amadiume, Reinventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture (New York: 1997).
• A. Cornwall (ed.), Readings in Gender in Africa (Bloomington: 2005).
• C.A. Diop, The Cultural Unity of Black Africa: the Domains of Patriarchy and of Matriarchy in Classical Antiquity (London: 1989, orig. pub. Paris: 1963).
• S. Kent, Gender in African Prehistory (Walnut Creek: 1998).
• O. Oyewumi, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (Minneapolis: 1997).
• J.D.Y. Peel, “Gender in Yoruba Religious Change,” Journal of Religion in Africa 32 (2002), 136-66.
• J.B. Shetler (ed.), Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives (Madison: 2015).
• B. Wambui, “Conversations: Women, Children, Goats, Land,” in C. Jeffers (ed.), Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy (Albany: 2013).
Episodes 1 - 28: Locating and Debating Precolonial African Philosophy
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Cheikh Anta Diop rang a bell.
Cheikh Anta Diop rang a bell. It's the name of one of the tracks of a CD I have by the Senegalese master drummer Doudou N'Diaye Rose.
Rose does Diop
Now that's good to know! Here is the track so everyone else can hear it. Would have been appropriate if the track had a lead female vocal.
True story: I had a
True story: I had a Senegalese Uber driver in NYC a couple years ago who told me she grew up next door to Rose in Dakar and had a few drum lessons with him. Small world these days.
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