{"product_id":"9781856495349","title":"Re-Inventing Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis extraordinary book issues a clarion call for a new understanding of Africa. The author of the best-selling Male Daughters\/Female Husbands here issues a 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor Amadiume calls instead for a new history of Africa, made and written by Africans. This is such a book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* uncovers the hidden matriarchal history of Africa which continues to empower women in political struggle throughout the continent\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* looks at the masculinization of indigenous African religions, effected largely by the imposition of Christianity and Islam\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* provides a guide to the main Afro-centric social theorists, writing a new social history of their continent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedicated 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 the beginning of a new vision of Africa, from the powerful voice of an African woman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zed Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057067573488,"sku":"9781856495349","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781856495349_p0.jpg?v=1769894918","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781856495349","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}