sari on Nfah-Abbenyi
I really liked this peice for the idea that theories have been passed down orally and through practice in Africa for a long time. Its a really cool idea.
another thing taht stuck out to me in this peice is related to something I wrote in an earlier blog about the tragedy of victimization rhetoric when I talked about how I feel like african/ethiopian women (i dont remember exactly) are constantly thought of as sexual victims only, and little attention is paid to the other "victimizing" things in their lives. On 268, while discussing western preoccupation with FGM/female circumcision(/ or whatever term I should be using) Nfah-Abbenyi says, "...African women's sexuality ends up being synonymous with "clitorectimy" in Western feminist circels. The fact is the practice is limited to certain parts of Africa, and that the vast majority of African women have not been victims of this awful ritual, does not seem to matter, and neither do the various and multipole contexts of tehir oppression(s). The fact that these women seem to be condemned and left by eh wayside by feminist discourses is more disconcerting given that feminist intellectual exercises tend to stress one thing only, the inability of these victims to experience sexual pleasure."