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born 1986 Senegal

Ndèye Fatou Kane (born 23 November 1986 in Dakar) is a Senegalese novelist, essayist, sociologist, and feminist. She is the granddaughter of the renowned Senegalese writer Cheikh Hamidou Kane.

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With the evolution of societies, the importation of monotheistic religions, particularly Islam, and colonization, power shifted to men. Today, this matriarchal system still exists to some extent in certain societies, such as among the Tuareg and the Bamileke of western Cameroon. There, rulers are still descended from the maternal line, through matrilineal descent.

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