Ifi Amadiume

Ifi Amadiume (born April 23, 1947 ) is a Nigerian author, ethnologist and feminist.

Amadiume has been with the Religion Department of Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire) since 1993 and is currently (2006) a professor.

Her book Male Daughters, Female Husbands. Social roles and gender in an African society is an ethnological research report on the Igbo society in Nigeria about the history of the change in the social role of women in this society (19th century, colonialism , independence). It is made clear how the role of women and their power is changing and disappearing due to the political and social upheaval. At the same time Amadiume tries to dispel the prejudice that women in Africa have always been economically powerless and politically without influence.

It was included in the anthology Daughters of Africa , edited in 1992 by Margaret Busby in London and New York.

Private

Ifi Amadiume has two children: Amadi Amadiume-Cisse (currently a college student in Maine, USA) and Nkemdilim Amadiume, called Kemdi (* 1979, house singer; died in 2005 of complications from multiple sclerosis diagnosed three years earlier ).

Web links

• Biographical ( English )