Patriarchy is dangerous for men and unstable for global trade.
“The uniqueness of this book lies not only in its eclectic themes and scope of analyses but also in the author’s brilliant fusion of rather complex issues of gender, imperialism, world-systems, and global insecurity into a composite inquiry. It presents us with fascinating historical discord over the meanings of imperial security and the concomitant clash of cultures between Western Europe and Africa in relation to their patriarchal and matriarchal systems. Illuminating the influences of intellectual conditioning of patriarchal colonial hegemonies that profiled women universally as the under-class, this compelling study places the onerous burden of ending international familial and class wars on the shoulders of the United States. Clearly a pace-setter in transnational gendering of global conflict and terrorism, this work entreats the US to reconsider its patriarchal imperial system in the global economy and listen more responsively to the formerly colonized nations of Africa for the sake of national and global security.”
— Apollos Okwuchi Nwauwa, director, Africana studies program, Bowling Green State University
Matriarchy, Patriarchy and Imperial Security in Africa is an interdisciplinary treatment of a topic that is usually addressed by political scientists and military strategists. Rather than follow Thomas P. M. Barnett’s, Samuel Huntington’s and Edward Saïd’s top-down approach to the turn-of-the-twenty-first century clash of the West and the Rest, this book takes readers on a three thousand year, grassroots journey through imperialism, linguistics, and applied critical theory to show readers that peace eludes us because we are not all working with the same definition of national security.
By adding a Saharan world trade system to the conventional Oriental-Occidental binary of traditional Western Civilization narratives, this book opens a view of Western Europe as a colonized territory of a medieval Roman empire that never died. A parallel imperial reorganization occurred in West Asia. Both systems deployed patriarchy as a gender bomb to implode and conquer matriarchal economies. This clash of European, West Asian and African matriarchal and patriarchal empires was the crucible that produced the United States of America as elder sibling of the family of post-colonial frontier nations.
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