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Email from Kamora's Cultural Corner Food, Community & Figuring It Out Together This Week with  our volunteers Good Afternoon KCC volunteers! Last night we had our Monday evening zoom check in where

06/09/2026

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Email from Kamora's Cultural Corner Food, Community & Figuring It Out Together This Week with  our volunteers Good Afternoon KCC volunteers! Last night we had our Monday evening zoom check in where

06/09/2026

I just recommended this book to someone yesterday and am looking forward to discussing it with you.

Long before Europeans set foot on the continent, back when a real lot of them still believed the earth was flat, woman-to-woman marriage was a mainstream, legally recognized institution stretching from the Nuer of South Sudan to the Igbo of Nigeria to the Kuria of Tanzania and Kenya. A woman of wealth and standing could pay the bridewealth, become the legal husband, control the lineage and the property, and her wives could bear children by a chosen male consort, the genitor, whose children belonged to her line and her name. This wasn’t done in secrecy. It was an entire institution, with rites and bride price and public recognition, sitting in the open.

Ifi Amadiume, in Male Daughters, Female Husbands, showed that in precolonial Igbo society gender was flexible and was not welded to the sexed body, so a woman could occupy the social role of husband and father, get addressed as such, and wield the authority that came with it. Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, in The Invention of Women, pushed it further and argued that gender as the master category for organizing a whole society was itself a Western imposition mapped onto Yoruba life, which had organized power by seniority and not by what was between your legs. Operationalize that.

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06/09/2026

06/09/2026

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