African Feminist Culture and Patriarchal Dilemma in the Age of Globalization
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2024-06
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Admiralty Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Abstract
The paper is an observational exploration of the social and financial implications of the
postmodernist feminist consciousness of African women in the age of globalisation. The
millennial era witnessed the dominant prevalence of the internet and social media which have
changed the orientation and tastes of most African women with the consequence of moderation
collapsing giving rise to conspicuous consumption leading to higher expectation from the
African man in marriage. The study is anchored on Molara Ogudipe-Leslie’s Stiwanist
theoretical approach as contextualised within George Herbert Mead’s Symbolic Interactionism
which promotes pluralist aggregate of social multiplicities. The African man is potentially able to
navigate the gender dilemma by dismantling the debauched Wild Masculinity bloc. In addition to
this, the African man in the age of globalisation and Global North capitalism necessarily needs to
consider the late marriage option rather than sustain the African proverbial superstition that
asserts that men automatically become prosperous as soon as they get married. The delay affords
the African man room to amass a primary material base. In the same vein, the contemporary
African man may consider marrying a far younger woman. The wide age difference is expected
to enable the man to have become somebody in life such as a higher degree achiever, a cleric, a
business tycoon, a professor, a director, a celebrity and so on. This will go a long way in eliciting
respect from his wife.
Keywords: African woman, culture, feminist consciousness, gender, globalisation, patriarchy,