Re-Inventing Africa

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ISBN: 9781350509207

Matriarchy, Religion and Culture

Ifi Amadiume (Dartmouth College, USA)

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Zed Books Ltd
02 April 2026

Cultural studies; Gender studies: women; Sociology: family & relationships; Anthropology

Series: Essential Amadiume

Now in this Essential Amadiume edition designed to bring Amadiume's groundbreaking ideas to a new generation of readers, this extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa, one made and written by Africans. Here Amadiume issues a seminal 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 a radical vision of Africa from the powerful voice of an African woman.

By: Ifi Amadiume (Dartmouth College USA)
Imprint: Zed Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9781350509207
ISBN 10: 1350509205
Series: Essential Amadiume
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 02 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ifi Amadiume is an award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently associate professor at Dartmouth College, USA. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme.

Reviews for Re-Inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture

Serve[s] to expose and and promote awareness of disciplinary rootedness in ethno- and andro-centrio bias and offer[s] positive directions for a revision of scholarship... provocative and occasionally damning. * Journal of African History * 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 decolonization of received colonial African history. * New People *