the human submission to the will of the divine” - Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

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the human submission to the will of the divine”

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

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About Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí

Oyeronke Oyewumi is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University. She acquired her bachelor's degree at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Alternative Names: Oyèrónkẹ́́ Oyĕwùmí • Oyeronke Oyewumi

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For women scholars, the university is not a particularly user-friendly place. Because of this, for us to succeed, it is crucial to have structures in place such as affordable child care. This is not an individual problem that ought to be addressed by one person at a time.

Collectively as women we need to do something different, we need to support each other. Support the young ones, even as we transition and deal with the whole question of what sort of families do we want because the families are the most basic unit.

So I think what African women as a group represent is an example a symbol of Africa’s vulnerability sixty years after independence. There’s violence against women as an offshoot of the general violence in the society.