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Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Nigerian American sociologist and academic
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí (born 10 November ) is a Nigerian gender scholar and full professor of sociology at Stony Brook University.
She acquired her bachelor's degree in political science[1] at the University of Ibadan in Ibadan, Nigeria and went on to pursue her graduate degree in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.[2] Oyěwùmí is the winner of the African Studies Association's Distinguished Africanist Award, which recognizes and honours individuals who have contributed a lifetime of outstanding scholarship in African studies combined with service to the Africanist&#;community.[3]
In her monograph, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, she offers a postcolonial feminist critique of Western dominance in African studies.[4] The book won the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Book Award in the Gender and Sex cate