Re-Inventing Africa Matriarchy, Religion and Culture

This book reveals how conventional anthropology has consistently imposed European ideas of the "natural" nuclear family, women as passive object, and class differences on a continent with a long history of women with power doing things differently. Amadiume argues for an end to anthropology and calls instead for a social history of Africa, by Africans.

Introduction
Part I: Re-writing History
1. The Matriarchal Roots of Africa
2. Race and Gender: Cheikh Anta Diop's Moral Philosophy
3. Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Socio-cultural Systems in Africa and Europe
4. Women's Achievements in African Political Systems: Transforming Culture for 500 years
5. Gender and Social Movements in Africa: A West African Experience
6. Gender and the Contestation of Religion: A historical Perspective on African Societies
Part 2: De-colonizing History
7. African Women and Politics: A History of Transformation
8. Cycles of Western Imperialism: Feminism, Race, Gender, Class and Power
9. In the Company of Women: Love, Struggle, Class and our Feminisms