Critical Appreciation: Sofola's Concept of Dual-Sex in Norbert Mutasa's Novels.
Drawing examples from the pre-colonial Igbo society, Sofola (1998) has argued that pre-colonial African societies enjoyed a dual-sex system which had roots in the philosophy of 'holistic harmony' and 'communalism' and in the principle of 'relatedness'. For Sofola, that philosophy was violated by the...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 6; no. 4; pp. 53 - 74 |
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