The European view point of exploitation of women in Europe compared to the African American women shows an inaccurate judgment. - Awa Thiam

Phallocratic and patriarchy maintained sexual violence and controlled women. Their way of controlling was to rape, female genital mutilation, force marriage and polygamy. European did not succeed in wiping out the black African civilization. The mothers/ancestors of the country, they held on to their belief to keep African civilization alive.

Women must fight and realize the system that is controlling and denying them, that system is patriarchal and phallocratic. Many were unconscious whether to rebel against this system that exploits them or accept it and remained in slavery. So many women were confused on what they should do because if they rebel they were dehumanized and disposed of.

The European feminist imposed the false argument “Rape is to women what lynching is to Blacks”. Women in the text suffered from double domination and double enslavement by the colonial phallocratic.