Anthropologica, January 1st, 2000
If one takes seriously the central message about identity politics and Africa in this latest book by the author of Male Daughters, Female Husbands, it presents difficulties for people like myself to review this collection of essays by Ifi Amadiume. Professor Amadiume, who herself received a doctorate in anthropology from the University of London, argues throughout Reinventing Africa that it is necessary to trenchantly critique the eurocentric, middle class and patriarchal biases inherent in anthropology as a discipline in order to clear the way for carrying out what she calls a social history ...
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