IS AFRICAN ONTOLOGY GENDER DISCRIMINATORY? RADICAL FEMINISM, LANGUAGE AND IDEOLOGY

Abstract This paper examines the place of radical feminism and its language to Africa’s drive towards achieving sustainable development. Through critical assessment of language and ideological projections in African women feminist literatures, this study assesses how African ontological placement challenges or converges with the radical feminist ideology, vis-a-vis patriarchal structures, gender discrimination, and liberation. This conceptual and analytical study adopts a qualitative and interpretive research methodology. The study systematically compares and contrasts African ontological placements and radical feminist conceptions to identify points of convergence, divergence, and potential synergy. This study argues that some schools on feminism, especially Calixthe Beyala’s proposition of a world strictly feminine, are antithetical to African socio-cultural ontological conceptions. This kind of ideology will obstruct rather than enhance the achievement of sustainable development of African women. Keywords: African, Feminism, Gender discrimination, Ideology, Language, Ontology, Radical Feminism.