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Hi Ebou!
Thanks for your observations. I also noticed Okome's failure to dilate on the socio-economic factor related to power. She attempted to deal with it by relating it to inheritance but it was inadequate. Have a good evening.
Buharry.
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Datum: den 12 maj 2002 06:46
Ämne: Re: FWD: THE VEIL AND MALE CHAUVINISTS
>Buharry,
>
>Thanks alot for the forwards. They are quite enlightening. I did
>learn alot from a previous posting on the Continental philosophers,
>i.e. Heidegger, Kojeve and Sartre...Although I sense a perennial bias
>characteristic of the Anglo-American Analytical philosophers, and their
>preference to logical positivism.
>
>Okombe of Fordham does have very interesting ideas of women and I think
>she has illuminated very salient features of gender relations within
>the African society. However, I think she hasn’t tackled the issue
>of “power” as a socio-economic phenomenon very well. Somehow she
>managed to highlight instances within very narrow tribal contexts:
>domestic cases amongst the Yoruba. She also makes a tragic mistake in
>her attempt to reject “Western tools of analysis” as unfit to study the
>gender power dynamics in Africa. I belief the “Western” tools do
>bequeath women with an impressive armory of critical tools: Derrida’s
>approach of deconstruction is astounding in analyzing the structure of
>language and how the idea of logo-centrism works in binary opposition
>by privileging a group over the “other” and thus alienating them in the
>process. Foucault also did some very brilliant work in analyzing the
>dynamics of power in history and society, i.e. how phallo-centrism
>dominates and defines what it means to be a “women” through out
>history. Finally the old man Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectics in his
>seminal Phenomenology of Spirit is still a canon in critical theory.
>In fact, I was just reading a passage from late Senghor’s Negritude,
>and his whole idea of the e-motive African was essentially Hegelian.
>My only fear eventually is that appeals to traditions by some African
>scholars, misinterpreted religious teachings and atavistic tribal
>history claims are all but wretched subterfuges.
>
>Finally Achebe’s speech was definitely right on the money... it is
>quite a fresh breath of humanity to that number-crunching, insensitive
>and hopeless institution called the World Bank.
>
>Thank you very much brother.
>
>Ebou Jallow
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