Cultural Andocentricism and Pollination among Nigerian Christians: Men’s Conspiracy against Women in Yoruba Culture

Abstract

This study examines men’s conspiracy against women imported into the Yoruba
Culture, via cultural pollination. Conspiracy in this context is referring to all
forms of attitudes that tend towards relegating women in the society. Such
andocentric culture is identical with that of the biblical Jewish cultural practices.
Critical feminist hermeneutics approach which entails four rhetorical strategies:
“Suspicion, Reconstruction, Evaluation, and Imagination combined with the
reader-response criticism are adopted to re-examine the human right law in the bible times in comparison with Yoruba cultural practices. The exegesis concentrates on selected biblical passages where only men were counted as if women are not part of the people there. The study shows that it is plausible to say that the andocentricities of the Yoruba culture are imported from Middle Eastern (Jewish inclusive) cultures. The study also shows some of the many ways men’s conspiracy work to the relegation of women in particular and the society as a whole via the implication on Nigeria Christianity. It is therefore concluded that the feminist critic of the culture is taken seriously in order to ensure better living for all creation, especially women and that they should be counted as individuals
who co-exist with men for the purpose of wealth distribution, leadership positions both in the society and the Church so as to ensure balanced representations of both men and women in biblical studies and Church administrations.