Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa - Nwando Achebe

Descriere Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa - Nwando Achebe

\n \nAn unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. \n \nNwando Achebe's unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe breaks from Western perspectives, research methods, and their consequently incomplete, skewed accounts, to demonstrate the critical importance of distinctly African source materials and world views to any comprehensible African history. This means accounting for the two realities of African cosmology: the physical world of humans and the invisible realm of spiritual gods and forces. That interconnected universe allows biological men and women to become female-gendered males and male-gendered females. This phenomenon empowers the existence of particular African beings, such as female husbands, male priestesses, female kings, and female pharaohs. Achebe portrays their combined power, influence, and authority in a sweeping, African-centric narrative that leads to an analogous consideration of contemporary African women as heads of state, government officials, religious leaders, and prominent entrepreneurs.\n

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Ohio University Press

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9780821424070

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1

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