Africana Womanism and African Feminism: A Philosophical, Literary and Cosmological Dialection on Family
Author(s)
Reed, Pamela Yaa Asantewaa
Abstract
The present treatment will examine, generally, the emerging perspectives of many of today’s leading African women writers and scholars regarding the life conditions of the Africana woman and, specifically, pertaining to the institution of so-called “polygamy.” This will allow for comparisons of the divergent viewpoints of the Africana Womanist espoused by Dr. Clenora Hudson Weems, African Feminists like the legendary Nigerian activist Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, and African writers like Glo Chukukere, who, amongst others, have all staked out ideological and philosophical positions on the matter of the overall condition of the African female and the African family.
