'Miss Independent' : gender and independence on the African continent

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dc.contributor.authorImafidon, Elvis
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-21T07:33:35Z
dc.date.available2020-01-21T07:33:35Z
dc.date.issued2013-01
dc.descriptionPeer reviewed article published under Inkanyiso, Volume 5, Issue 1, Jan 2013, p. 21 - 30en_US
dc.description.abstractModern African societies have emerged from rich cultural heritages and traditions tangled with an ambivalent colonial experience. One aspect of the rich African cultural heritage that has however persisted in post-colonial Africa is the perception of independent social living as a male dominated prerogative in which the female is seen as a submissive subject. My intention with this paper is to show that, over the past two decades, a growing new trend towards a rejection of this male dominated concept has emerged in African traditional society and is fast growing in social life on the continent; a trend aptly captured by the pop music of the R&B superstar Ne-Yo in his single ‘Miss Independent’. This trend strongly illustrates the growing rejection by women of the traditionally held stereotypical masculine role of independence. Women are increasingly rejecting the submissiveness and dependence on the male as contained in the ‘old order’. This paper illustrates that there are fast emerging consequences for this new trend with particular reference to family life, courtship and marriage. The research method used in the study is both descriptive and analytical.en_US
dc.identifier.citationImafidon, E., 2013. ‘Miss Independent’: gender and independence on the African continent. Inkanyiso: Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 5(1), pp.21-30.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2077-2815
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10530/1920
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Zululanden_US
dc.subjectGender and independenceen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Genderen_US
dc.subjectMasculineen_US
dc.subjectFeminineen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Cultureen_US
dc.title'Miss Independent' : gender and independence on the African continenten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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