Feminine Ritual Power and African Politics

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Abstract This response to Laura Grillo's An Intimate Rebuke concentrates on how feminine ritual power, sometime hidden and underplayed in male-dominated politics and public life more generally, has had revolutionary implications in modern African political history and has the potential to affect change in contemporary African states.

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