Ифи Амадиуме: Нигериялық ақын, антрополог және эссешінің өмірі мен еңбектері

Nigerian poet, anthropologist, and essayist
Ifi Amadiume was born on April 23, 1947. She is a Nigerian poet, anthropologist, and essayist. At the age of 46, she joined the Religion Department of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, US, in 1993. During her life she has authored and contributed to a total of 13 works.

Born in Kaduna to Igbo parents, Ifi Amadiume was educated in Nigeria before moving to Britain in 1971. She studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, gaining a BA (1978) and PhD (1983) in social anthropology respectively. During her time at the School of oriental and African Studies, University of London she earned a certification in Hausa. She was a research fellow for a year at the University of Nigeria, Enugu, and taught and lectured in the UK, Canada, US and Senegal. In July of 2000 she became a full time professor of Religion while also teaching African American Study courses. The latter is considered groundbreaking owing to the fact that a number of years before the articulation of queer theory, it argued that gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference. Her book of theoretical essays, Reinventing Africa, appeared in 1998. Extracts from her work is included in the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992). and her 1985 collection, Passion Waves, was nominated for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She is on the advisory board of the Centre for Democracy and Development, a non governmental organisation that aims to promote the values of democracy, peace and human rights in Africa, particularly in the West African sub region. Amadiume is widely regarded for her pioneering work in feminist discourse: her work made tremendous contributions to new ways of thinking about sex and gender, the question of power, and women's place in history and culture". She has nevertheless attracted criticism for her "assumption that [the] female is necessarily equated with peace and love."