African Possibilities

Ifi Amadiume is a tenured full Professor at Dartmouth College, USA, where she has taught both in the Department of Religion and the African and African American Studies Program. She has taught courses cross-listed in many departments and programs such as Women and Gender Studies Program, and the Anthropology Department. She is also a writer and an award-winning poet of many books. Amadiume is the author of several books and articles, including the influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands (Zed Books, 1988, new edition 2015) that won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1989 and one of Africa’s Best 100 Books of the 20th century award.

Acknowledgements
Dedication
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART 1 VOICING
Chapter One, Prophecy, Authenticity, Oppositional Models of Resistance in
Africa
Chapter Two, African Perspectives on Religious Conscience and the Global
Economy
Chapter Three, Culture and Religious Traditions of Gender and Development in
Africa: Gendering Civil Society and the State
Chapter Four, The Endogenous Project And A Struggle for Culture and Voice
PART 11 ALTERNATIVES
Chapter Five, Citizenship, Rights and Freedoms in Contesting Religious
Narratives of Gods and Goddesses
Chapter Six, Mama Asta: an African Muslim matriarchy in Senegal
Chapter Seven, Bodies, Choices, Globalizing NeoColonial Enchantments: African
Matriarchs and Mammy Water
PART III POSSIBILITIES
Chapter Eight, Gender, Culture and the Family in Africa
Chapter Nine, Matriarchy and the Postcolonial: Possibilities and Disenchantments
Chapter Ten, Sexuality, African Religio-Cultural Traditions and Modernity:
Expanding the Lens
Chapter Eleven, Writing for Justice, Seeking Inclusiveness, Implicating the World
Chapter Twelve, Postscript or Afterword: Progressing with Matriarchitization