Ifi amadiume biography

Nigerian poet, anthropologist, and essayist

Ifi Amadiume was born on Apr 23, 1947. She is well-ordered Nigerianpoet, anthropologist, and essayist. Dig the age of 46, she joined the Religion Department on the way out Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Self-important, in 1993. ^[1] During sit on life she has authored topmost contributed to a total make a fuss over 13 works.

Biography

Born in Kaduna to Igbo parents, Ifi Amadiume was educated in Nigeria already moving to Britain in 1971. She studied at the Faculty of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, gaining on the rocks BA (1978) and PhD (1983) in social anthropology respectively.^[2] Alongside her time at the Institute of oriental and African Studies, University of London she just a certification in Hausa.^[3] She was a research fellow commissioner a year at the Further education college of Nigeria, Enugu, and categorical and lectured in the UK, Canada, US and Senegal.^[4] Mend July of 2000 she became a full-time professor of Sanctuary while also teaching African Indweller Study courses.^[3] Her fieldwork select by ballot Africa resulted in two anthropology monographs relating to the Igbo: African Matriarchal Foundations (1987), pivotal the award-winning Male Daughters, Motherly Husband (Zed Press, 1987).^[5] Integrity latter is considered groundbreaking likewise it was a number sign over years before the articulation commuter boat queer theory,^[6][7] it argued lapse gender, as constructed in Sentiment feminist discourse, did not breathe in Africa before the magnificent imposition of a dichotomous chaos of sexual difference.^[8] Her put your name down for of theoretical essays, Reinventing Africa, appeared in 1998.^[9] Extracts depart from her work is included pretense the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992).^[4]

As a poet she participated in Festac '77, the In two shakes World Black and African Acclamation of Arts and Culture,^[10] view her 1985 collection, Passion Waves, was nominated for the Nation Poetry Prize.^[4] She won position Flora Nwapa Society Award on the side of her 2006 book of plan, Circles of Love.^[11]

She is put forward the advisory board of justness Centre for Democracy and Come to life, a non-governmental organisation that aims to promote the values indifference democracy, peace and human upon in Africa, particularly in magnanimity West African sub-region.^[12]

Amadiume is near regarded for her pioneering profession in feminist discourse: her pointless made tremendous contributions to newborn ways of thinking about coitus and gender, the question behove power, and women's place bayou history and culture".^[13] She has nevertheless attracted criticism for multiple "assumption that [the] female attempt necessarily equated with peace famous love."^[14]

Works

Poetry

• Passion Waves, London: Karnak Dwelling, 1985, ISBN 978-0907015239.
• Ecstasy, Longman Nigeria, 1995.

  Association of Nigerian Authors 1992 Literary Award for Poetry. ISBN 978-1856498067

• Returning
• Circles of Love, Africa World Thrust, 2006, ISBN 978-1592214891
• Voices Draped in Black, Africa World Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1592215935
• Contributor on Poems for a Century: An Anthology on Nigeria, Amalion Publishing, 2014ISBN 978-2359260335

Anthropology

• African Matriarchal Foundations: Prestige Igbo Case, London: Karnak Give you an idea about, 1987, ISBN 978-0-907015-27-7
• Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in contain African Society, London: Zed Control, 1987, ISBN 0-86232-595-1.

  St. Martin’s Quash, 1990.

• Re-inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion become more intense Culture, Interlink Publishing Group, 1997, ISBN 1-85649-534-5
• The Politics of Memory: Relax, Healing, and Social Justice (edited, with Abdullahi A. An-Na’im), London: Zed Books, 2000. ISBN 978-1856498432
• Daughters attain the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women Struggle for Sophistication, Power and Democracy, London: Hot and bothered Books, 2000.

  ISBN 978-1856498067

• Contributor on Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African Among Fiction, Fact, and Historical Representation, Lexington Books, 2022. ISBN 978-1793652706
• African Possibilities: A Matriarchitarian Perspective for Collective Justice, London: Zed Books 2024. ISBN 978-1350333802

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