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In this book, Oy?w�m� extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yor�b� society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a non-gendered ontology to the social institutions of If�, motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oy?w�m� insists that contemporary assertions of male dominance must be understood, in part, as the work of local intellectuals who took marching orders from Euro/American mentors and colleagues. In exposing the depth of the coloniality of power, Oy?w�m� challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.
In this book, Oy?w�m� extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yor�b� society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a non-gendered ontology to the social institutions of If�, motherhood, marriage, family and naming practices. Oy?w�m� insists that contemporary assertions of male dominance must be understood, in part, as the work of local intellectuals who took marching orders from Euro/American mentors and colleagues. In exposing the depth of the coloniality of power, Oy?w�m� challenges us to look at the worlds we inhabit, anew.