Both colonial and modern African scholars have irrationalized African women’s philosophical standing

Evidence

Tracking the development of African philosophy from a feminist point of view reveals two waves of irrationality with regards to an understanding of the position and role of African women in primordial Africa. The first wave is the irrationality of foregoing Eurocentric scholars, whose devaluation of the position and role of African women in society was based on both patriarchal and racial grounds. The second wave is that of some modern African scholars, who despite the current developments in the area of African philosophy, still conspire to refute the existence of a feminist philosophy, branding feminist epistemology a foreign import with no relevance to the lives of African people. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 895

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Parallels the double-bind facing postcolonial thinkers in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and the imposed-labels dynamic in Things Fall Apart — the colonizer demeans you, then your own people brand your response a foreign import.

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