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...

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Main Author: Charamba, Tyanai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol6no4/6.4-ready4.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1518
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