Английская Википедия:Ifi Amadiume

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Шаблон:Short description Ifi Amadiume was born on April 23, 1947. She is a Nigerian poet, anthropologist, and essayist. At the age of 46, she joined the Religion Department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, US, in 1993. During her life she has authored and contributed to a total of 13 works.

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 (1978) and PhD (1983) 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 (1987), and the award-winning Male Daughters, Female Husband (Zed Press, 1987). 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 (1992).

As a poet she participated in Festac '77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture, and her 1985 collection, Passion Waves, was nominated for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She won the Flora Nwapa Society Award for her 2006 book of poetry, Circles of Love.

She is on the advisory board of the Centre for Democracy and Development, a non-governmental organisation that aims to promote the values of democracy, peace and human rights in Africa, particularly in the West African sub-region.

Amadiume is widely regarded for her pioneering work in feminist discourse: "her work made tremendous contributions to new ways of thinking about sex and gender, the question of power, and women's place in history and culture". She has nevertheless attracted criticism for her "assumption that [the] female is necessarily equated with peace and love."

Works

Poetry

• Passion Waves, London: Karnak House, 1985, Шаблон:ISBN.
• Ecstasy, Longman Nigeria, 1995. Association of Nigerian Authors 1992 Literary Award for Poetry. Шаблон:ISBN
• Returning
• Circles of Love, Africa World Press, 2006, Шаблон:ISBN
• Voices Draped in Black, Africa World Press, 2008, Шаблон:ISBN
• Contributor on Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria, Amalion Publishing, 2014 Шаблон:ISBN

Anthropology

• African Matriarchal Foundations: The Igbo Case, London: Karnak House, 1987, Шаблон:ISBN
• Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society, London: Zed Press, 1987, Шаблон:ISBN. St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
• Re-inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture, Interlink Publishing Group, 1997, Шаблон:ISBN
• The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing, and Social Justice (edited, with Abdullahi A. An-Na’im), London: Zed Books, 2000. Шаблон:ISBN
• Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women Struggle for Culture, Power and Democracy, London: Zed Books, 2000. Шаблон:ISBN
• Contributor on Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African Between Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation, Lexington Books, 2022. Шаблон:ISBN
• African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Social Justice, London: Zed Books 2024. Шаблон:ISBN

External links

• Biography
• Centre for Democracy and Development