Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: I believe Dr. Wigwe

i wonder how we are supposed to identify and guard ourselves against what olayinka agbetuyi calls, below, that "overly vociferous and aggressive variant" of feminism?
there is indeed not just one feminism, but there has long been one consistent discourse in attacking all feminisms from the beginning of the movement. that has been attacking women for speaking out as being too loud and too aggressive.
the language of the criticism betrays the patriarchal phallocentrism, but instead of admitting it, the attack reverts to the charge that this is "western feminism." those two attacks--aggressive and western--are used consistently to silence women.
here it is, the definitive word:
ken

African woman go dance, she go dance the fire dance (2x)
She know him man na master
She go cook for am
She go do anything he say
But lady no be so (4x)
Lady na master (3x)

LADY
If you call a woman
African woman no go 'gree
She go say
She go say "I be lady o"
If you call a woman
African woman no go 'gree
She go say
She go say "I be lady o"
If you call a woman
African woman no go 'gree
She go say
(She go say "I be lady o")
I want tell you about lady (3x)
She go say him equal to man
She go say him get power like man
She go say anything man do
Himself fit do
She go say him equal to man
She go say him get power like man
She go say anything man do
Himself fit do

I never tell you finish (3x)
I never tell you

She go want take cigar before anybody
She go want make you open door for am
She go want make him man wash plate for her for kitchen
She want salute man, she go sit down for chair (2x)
She want sit down for table before anybody (2x)
She want piece of meat before anybody (2x)
Call am for dance, she go dance lady dance (2x)
African woman go dance, she go dance the fire dance (2x)
She know him man na master
She go cook for am
She go do anything he say
But lady no be so (4x)
Lady na master (3x)

Call am for dance, she go dance lady dance (2x)
African woman go dance she go dance the fire dance (2x)
She know him man na master
She go cook for am
She go do anything he say

But lady no be so (4x)
Lady na master (4x)

If you call am woman
African woman no go 'gree
She go say
(She go say "I be lady o")
She go say "I be Lady"
(She go say "I be lady o")
She go say I no be woman
(She go say "I be lady o")
She go say market woman na woman
(She go say "I be lady o")
She go say I be Lady -
(She go say "I be lady o") (3x)
till fade

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On 6/8/11 11:46 AM, Olayinka Agbetuyi wrote:

there is not just one feminism,although there is an overly vociferous and aggressive variant)

--  kenneth w. harrow distinguished professor of english michigan state university department of english east lansing, mi 48824-1036 ph. 517 803 8839 harrow@msu.edu