Man seems to have wanted… to give the universe his own gender…anything believed to have value belongs to men and is marked by their gender…he gives his own gender to God, to the sun.

— Ifi Amadiume Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society (1987)

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