Nah Dove: The significance of culture to life in pursuit of democratic principles

HUMA African Epistemologies Advanced Seminar Series

Speaker: Nah Dove (Temple University, United States)

Introduction: Cheikh Anta Diop’s cradle theory is foundational to understanding culture as a tool of analysis in Africology. The most critical distinctions among people are viewed as cultural. From this vantage, the cultural construction of patriarchy – the debasement of the African Mother – will be viewed as fundamental and critical to creating hierarchies like race, caste, class and gender that have arisen to justify injustices. Africa’s ancient Maat will be used as the standard for justice.

About the speaker: Nah Dove is a proud mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She has lived in Ghana, Nigeria, Canada, the US, and the UK. She graduated with a PhD from the US, with a focus on African culture, women and education. She has written articles, chapters, encyclopaedic entries and three books: African Mothers (SUNY Press, 1998), The Afrocentric School: [a blueprint] (Universal Write Publications, 2021) and co-authored Being Human Being (Universal Write Publications, 2021) with Dr Molefi Kete Asante. Her accomplishments include her involvement in developing African-centred and Afrocentric schools. Nah Dove is an Assistant Professor of Africology at Temple University, focusing on African women, particularly mothers and Africological episteme.