Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi

Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi (born 1939) is a Nigerian academic, a literary critic and writer.

Quotes

• As black, they themselves suffered as victims of a white patriarchal culture, as women, they also face racial, sexual harassment, and class discrimination by white men. Within the framework, most of the black women writers...deal mainly with the black woman as a victim of black patriarchy
  • Syed Hajira Begum, "Against All Odds: African Womanhood in Postcolonial African Women Writing", Marang, Vol. 16 (2006).
• Womanism is black-centred; it is accommodationist. It believes in the freedom and independence of women like feminism; unlike radical feminism, it wants meaningful union between black women and black men and black children and will see to it that men begin to change from their sexist stand. It is also interested in communal well-being.
  • [1] Chikwenye Okonjo speaking on Womanism