Introduction
In the following assignment I will be focusing on Mercy Amba Oduyoye themes that she emphasis several times in her books, poems and speeches. These things all rotate around African Women and the poor way they are being treated in their community and in the social contexts of our modern day world.
Today I was walking on campus, Stellenbosch University and I was bombarded on the “rooiplein” with various women, short, skinny, black, white, they were all gathered in this space speaking about rape culture. Within society being a women means so many things, there are so many different labels and categories that we get placed in. From being someone’s mother, daughter to sister and all these titles rips us away from just simply being …show more content…
14). His understanding of marriage within the African contexts is connected and seen as a unity with procreation, for Mbiti, “women who are childless are condemned as outcast” (Pui-lan, 2004, p. 14). Mercy Oduyoye critically goes into dialogue with Mbiti work and questions the notion of women’s role and procreation. Oduyoye who is childless herself questions the idea that the only reason women were created is to get married and have sex for procreate and to be a mother (Pui-lan, 2004, p. 14). When we speak about feminism in our society today we realize that this title is interpreted as something negative, women who want to have children and be a housewife is seen as boring, without life goals and traditional while on the other end of the spectrum women who are career focus and don’t want children are seen as not fulfilling their role as …show more content…
Within the 21st Century women have become more open and fluid in their own bodies and have become liberated in a sense. At the same time culture makes things problematic because there is a certain idea of what an African Women is , for many she is understood as courageous , maternal, strong and soulful (Muranda, 2014). Her life was never hers to begin with as she was raised to be a mother for her family and community and when we take the time to think about we all know deep down there is this image of an African women, she les in our consciences and makes us as women desire to be like her and if not we constantly wonder why we don’t (Muranda, 2014). Even though this imagery is powerful in essence we can still find fault with her because like every other human being , being a women doesn’t make us perfect , neither of us magically becomes a perfect mother , wife our community leader and we need to own up to this
In the following assignment I will be focusing on Mercy Amba Oduyoye themes that she emphasis several times in her books, poems and speeches. These things all rotate around African Women and the poor way they are being treated in their community and in the social contexts of our modern day world.
Today I was walking on campus, Stellenbosch University and I was bombarded on the “rooiplein” with various women, short, skinny, black, white, they were all gathered in this space speaking about rape culture. Within society being a women means so many things, there are so many different labels and categories that we get placed in. From being someone’s mother, daughter to sister and all these titles rips us away from just simply being …show more content…
14). His understanding of marriage within the African contexts is connected and seen as a unity with procreation, for Mbiti, “women who are childless are condemned as outcast” (Pui-lan, 2004, p. 14). Mercy Oduyoye critically goes into dialogue with Mbiti work and questions the notion of women’s role and procreation. Oduyoye who is childless herself questions the idea that the only reason women were created is to get married and have sex for procreate and to be a mother (Pui-lan, 2004, p. 14). When we speak about feminism in our society today we realize that this title is interpreted as something negative, women who want to have children and be a housewife is seen as boring, without life goals and traditional while on the other end of the spectrum women who are career focus and don’t want children are seen as not fulfilling their role as …show more content…
Within the 21st Century women have become more open and fluid in their own bodies and have become liberated in a sense. At the same time culture makes things problematic because there is a certain idea of what an African Women is , for many she is understood as courageous , maternal, strong and soulful (Muranda, 2014). Her life was never hers to begin with as she was raised to be a mother for her family and community and when we take the time to think about we all know deep down there is this image of an African women, she les in our consciences and makes us as women desire to be like her and if not we constantly wonder why we don’t (Muranda, 2014). Even though this imagery is powerful in essence we can still find fault with her because like every other human being , being a women doesn’t make us perfect , neither of us magically becomes a perfect mother , wife our community leader and we need to own up to this