Ifi Amadiume

Ifi Amadiume (ma bí efu óchu ekélé nolu ogwu nyo méta efu ódò 1947)í chene Ọkakachi efu Nigerian , í chene kí chukocha eñwu íbe‘fu Oona manyu úché kone ache kpaí alu kone aru ojo. Í dama manyu újo ye í abo óla ojo efu Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, US, efu ódò 1993.

Alu kí àbàkwéne ñwu kpai ofigbélí ñw
Ma bí efu éwo Kaduna ñw ófikpalí Igbo , Ife Amadiume í che chí ene kí chí ótakada efu Nigeria takí í lo tí ojikpalí anaododa  Britain efu ódò  1971. Í chene kí chu kocha ùgbo unyí School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, kí ní BA (ódò 1978) kpai  PhD (ódò 1983) efu social anthropology respectively. í che ene kí Cha akwe‘teñwu alèbor ódò ñw í ye University of Nigeria, Enugu, kpai ílactura efu éwo amenefu  UK, Canada, US kpai Senegal.Margaret Busby (ed.), "Ifi Amadiume", in Daughters of Africa (Cape, 1992), pp. 632–637. ùgbo kía chukọlọ efu ojiane ojikpalí amenedudu  Africa í ko o...hí efu eñwu mejí kí chí ethnographic monographs kí che‘fu lo tí Igbo:anyu African Matriarchal Foundations (efu ódò 1987), kpaí ma dí íkebe awodu-nw enekele oma , onubule, oko‘ya onubule  (Zed Press, 1987). ubíle ma deju coó kí Cha me kwí àbàkwéne todu kí ní íbenu ogbogba dabí aluka ye í ódò ta kí í neka edú ye í queer theory, í ji‘ñwa kakini onubule bakí enekele , alu kí Cha efu Olu-ane feminist discourse, ìdẹ efù ojìàńē abo àfricã ťákí abó çolonìa wa kpaì ẹnwù kùmámá lùgbò sex .Male Daughters, Female Husbands  at The University of Chicago Press. ọtákídá ñwù theorí essays, ẹdábíyí ojíanẹ Africa kí dufu efu odo  1998. Extracts from her work is included in the anthology Daughters of Africa (1992).

Dabí ene okakachí kí  participated efu  Festac '77, ye í cholo ku ma che onukejí efu íleí ojiane amenedudu kpaí eñwu ogwuu, kpaí eñwu kí gba efu ódò 1985 , Passion Waves, ódù ñw de'fu abo kí dago ojí ye í  Commonwealth Poetry Prize. í gbí íkebe awodu ye ótakada ye oluka kí ko ẹgba 2006 ñw Flora Nwapa Society ,oji ufedo.Peter Welsh, "Full circle: Amadiume wins Flora Nwapa Society Award for new book" , Vox (Dartmouth College), '05-'06 Academic Year, May 29 Issue.

Í che dago ojí ye advisory board ye í Centre for Democracy and Development, é non-governmental organisation ka kí ,kí duma èdo ku ma du ojima ye  democracy, peace kpaí  human rights efu  Afríka nyogba, ólolonwu chí efu ye West African sub-region. 

Ma che mí Amadiume eju ma todu úkolo etae kí che efu oluka feminist : "ukolo-nw jenwu achíatako oná étito efu íbe ekpe todu amí enekele kpai abobule, ye í áne ye ukpahu, kpai eña abobule efu óhilaà kpaí eñwu ogwuu ".Marie Umeh, "Amadiume, Ifi", in Jane Eldridge Miller (ed.), Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, Routledge (2001). She has nevertheless attracted criticism for her "assumption that [the] female is necessarily equated with peace and love."C. T. Gibb, "Deconstructing African History", The Journal of African History, vol. 40, no. 1 (1999), pp. 166–167.

Works

Poetry
 Passion Waves, London: Karnak House, 1985, .
 Ecstasy, Longman Nigeria, 1995. Association of Nigerian Authors 1992 Literary Award for Poetry. 
 Returning
 Circles of Love, Africa World Press, 2006, 
 Voices Draped in Black, Africa World Press, 2008, 

Anthropology
 African Matriarchal Foundations: The Igbo Case, London: Karnak House, 1987, 
 Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society, London: Zed Press, 1987, . St. Martin’s Press, 1990.
 Re-inventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and Culture, Interlink Publishing Group, 1997, 
 The Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing, and Social Justice (edited, with Abdullahi A. An-Na’im), London: Zed Books, 2000. 
 Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism: African Women Struggle for Culture, Power and Democracy, London: Zed Books, 2000. 

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Biography
Centre for Democracy and Development

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