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 Professor
Ifi Amadiume joined the Religion Department in July 1993 as Associate
Professor of Religion and African Studies. She was promoted to full Professor
of Religion in July 2000. She teaches courses on indigenous religions of Africa
and women in African religions. Professor Amadiume has a joint appointment with
the African and African American
Studies program and also teaches courses in African Studies. She has a B.A
(Honours 1978) in Social Anthropology and Hausa (African language) from the
School of Oriental and African Studies, and a University of London Ph.D. 1983
in Social Anthropology. She has taught in African Studies at the University of
Nigeria, and The School of Oriental and African Studies, United Kingdom; has
done field work in Africa; and has written many essays and books with special
interest in gender analysis. Her publications include Male Daughters, Female
Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (London and New Jersey: Zed
Books, 1987, 6th impression 1997); African Matriarchal Foundations: The Igbo
Case (London: Karnak House, 1987); Reinventing Africa: Matriarchy, Religion and
Culture (London and New Jersey: Zed Books and St. Martin's Press, 1997);
Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism (Zed Books 2000) and The
Politics of Memory: Truth, Healing and Social Justice, co-edited with Abdullahi
An Na'im (Zed Books 2000). She has published three poetry award-winning books:
Passion Waves (London: Karnak House, 1985, winner of a Commonwealth Poetry
Prize nomination); Ecstasy (Longman Nigeria, 1995, winner of the Association of
Nigerian Authors 1992 Cadbury Literary Award for Poetry); Circles of Love
(Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2006, winner of the 2006 Flora Nwapa Society
Award, African Literature Association, USA, for outstanding achievement in
African Religions and African Women and Gender Studies), Her latest book of
poetry Voices Draped in Black (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007) has just
been published. Amadiume's poems deal with love of people, nature, Sufism and
struggle, celebrating activism and activists.
Professor Amadiume is an honorary member Phi Beta Kappa, Dartmouth Chapter,
and in May 2004 was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by Dartmouth
College.
Her research interests include African Goddesses and Matriarchy; Spirit
Possession; Gender, Society and Culture; Women's Organizations; Social
Movements; Religion, Culture and the State, Religion and literature; Human
Rights and Social Justice; Gender ideology/ philosophy in indigenous Religions
of Africa and the African diaspora; and Women in African Islam.
Courses and Programs
2008 Spring
- Non-Teaching Resident Term
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