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  <identifier identifierType="DOI">10.25365/phaidra.586_02</identifier>
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    <creator>
      <creatorName nameType="Personal">Akachi Ezeigbo (Federal University Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebony State, Nigeria)</creatorName>
      <givenName>Akachi</givenName>
      <familyName>Ezeigbo</familyName>
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  <titles>
    <title>Towards a Decolonized and Transformed Academia and Community through Snail-sense Feminism, an Indigenous Model</title>
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  <publisher>:none</publisher>
  <publicationYear>2024</publicationYear>
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    <description descriptionType="Other">One of the issues trending in scholarship today is “decolonization of knowledge”. How can knowledge be decolonized in tertiary institutions to make allowances for an integrative and inclusive future that makes for social justice? In the world: Whose knowledge counts and whose knowledge is being undervalued? In 2002, I became Head of the English Department at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and it was my responsibility to manage the affairs of the Department, including ensuring the smooth delivery of lectures and the general welfare of students and staff. Out of twenty teaching staff, only three were females in a Department where most of the students were girls. One year in office, I ensured that three new qualified female lecturers were employed. The aim was to decolonize notions of gender, promote inclusion and increase women’s contribution to knowledge. The works of more female authors were included in the curriculum. Based on my sometimes painful experiences as a woman operating in a patriarchal society, I have devoted significant research effort to the lives of women of my community – past and present – in order to make their experiences known for the purpose of individual and societal re-orientation and re-education. In this paper, I intend to highlight my own home-grown feminist theory known as Snail-sense feminism which has been effective in dismantling gender hierarchies and transforming patriarchal attitudes in tertiary institutions and communities in my country – an indigenous model that allows the tenets of inclusion, equity, negotiation and dialogue to thrive in the academia and the society at large. I conclude by asserting that there is much modern society can learn from workable feminist concepts in order to create positive change in society.</description>
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  <language>eng</language>
  <dates>
    <date dateType="Created">2025-02-03T09:05:18.141Z</date>
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  <subjects>
    <subject>Afrikanistik</subject>
    <subject>African studies</subject>
    <subject>ÖFOS 2012 -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (602) -- Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften (6020) -- Afrikanistik (602001)</subject>
    <subject>ÖFOS 2012 -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Linguistics and Literature (602) -- Linguistics and Literature (6020) -- African studies (602001)</subject>
    <subject>Decolonization</subject>
    <subject>Feminism</subject>
    <subject>Inclusion</subject>
    <subject>Transformation</subject>
    <subject>Academia</subject>
    <subject>Knowledge</subject>
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