TYPES OF AFRICAN FEMINISM 4 Whether it is the cruelty of polygamy, African-descended women’s rape and exploitation in United States’ slavery, or current ceilings on the African feminist’s hope, it
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TYPES OF AFRICAN FEMINISM 4
Whether it is the cruelty of polygamy, African-descended women’s rape and exploitation in United States’ slavery, or current ceilings on the African feminist’s hope, it will be easier said than done to use ‘the master’s tools to take to pieces the master’s house. Despite our annoyance with history, all African-descended women are accountable for the expansion of research programmed that is receptive to the unique locations we dwell in.
In the final investigation, the missionary feminist’s plan does not state publicly the West as a haven for the knowledgeable, optimistic and tradition-free, contemporary African woman. That is the dare for all women of African descent. Opposing to this school of thought, the new African woman is not an fragmentary version of the western feminist. If, as Audre Lord imply, growth does not depend on a western-based adaptation agenda, then transcendence of existing subjugation must not mean that the present-day African woman will be better-off in a customized colonialism
Neo-colonial Feminism: Colonialism’s exclusion of African womanhood, the all-