Christine Saidi

Christine Saidi is a Professor of African History at Kutztown University. Saidi is the recipient of three prestigious Fulbright Fellowships, a Social Science Research Council Grant, a Woodrow Wilson Women’s Studies grant and a U.S.National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. She has published several articles and chapters, as well as two books, Women’s Authority and Society in Early East Central Africa and Bantu Africa. She is currently working on a book, Family Before Gender, which examines the non-gendered social history of Bantu matrilineal peoples.

Publications

Grandmothers, Mothers, and Persons of Authority: The Non-Patriarchal History of the Bantu Matrilineal Zone, 300 CE to 1500 CE
Grandmothers, Mothers, and Persons of Authority: The Non-Patriarchal History of the Bantu Matrilineal Zone, 300 CE to 1500 CE
Christine Saidi. © 2024. 15 pages.
Patriarchy as an ideological concept was imported into Africa with the arrival of outsiders. The main focus of this chapter is the history of Bantu-speaking peoples from 300 CE...