Hi Ebou!
            Thanks for your observations. I also noticed Okome's failure to dilate on the socio-economic factor related to power. She attempted to deal with it by relating it to inheritance but it was inadequate. Have a good evening.
                                                                                                        Buharry.
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Datum: den 12 maj 2002 06:46
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>Buharry,
>
>Thanks alot for the forwards.  They are quite enlightening.  I did 
>learn alot from a previous posting on the Continental philosophers, 
>i.e.  Heidegger, Kojeve and Sartre...Although I sense a perennial bias 
>characteristic of the Anglo-American Analytical philosophers, and their 
>preference to logical positivism.  
>
>Okombe of Fordham does have very interesting ideas of women and I think 
>she has illuminated very salient features of gender relations within 
>the African society.  However, I think she hasn’t tackled the issue 
>of “power” as a socio-economic phenomenon very well.  Somehow she 
>managed to highlight instances within very narrow tribal contexts: 
>domestic cases amongst the Yoruba.   She also makes a tragic mistake in 
>her attempt to reject “Western tools of analysis” as unfit to study the 
>gender power dynamics in Africa.  I belief the “Western” tools do 
>bequeath women with an impressive armory of critical tools:  Derrida’s 
>approach of deconstruction is astounding in analyzing the structure of 
>language and how the idea of logo-centrism works in binary opposition 
>by privileging a group over the “other” and thus alienating them in the 
>process.  Foucault also did some very brilliant work in analyzing the 
>dynamics of power in history and society, i.e. how phallo-centrism 
>dominates and defines what it means to be a “women” through out 
>history.  Finally the old man Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectics in his 
>seminal Phenomenology of Spirit is still a canon in critical theory.  
>In fact, I was just reading a passage from late Senghor’s Negritude, 
>and his whole idea of the e-motive African was essentially Hegelian.  
>My only fear eventually is that appeals to traditions by some African 
>scholars, misinterpreted religious teachings and atavistic tribal 
>history claims are all but wretched subterfuges.       
>
>Finally Achebe’s speech was definitely right on the money... it is 
>quite a fresh breath of humanity to that number-crunching, insensitive 
>and hopeless institution called the World Bank.
>
>Thank you very much brother.
>
>Ebou Jallow 
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