African Feminist Epistemologies: For the De-Westernization of Gender

This essay delimits as a methodology the Cognitive Analysis, of bibliographical revision, with the cut of African literatures, aiming to disseminate African knowledge in gender in Brazil, as well as to discuss discussions of African authors in the context of the decentralization of the hegemonic knowledge euro American perspective from the gender perspective, in which, through the analysis, a group of authors advocates a gender relationship in African territory that is not characterized by submission, binarisms, oppression (either before or in post-colonization), and another emphasizes inequality the gender. In such studies, on the one hand, the strong influence of western hegemonic epistemology is evidenced, while at the same time it is advocated for the right to other epistemologies.In the face of the problem of epistemological ambiguity, emphasizing the place of speech in the discussion of itself, we made comparisons of the respective groups and, highlighting approaches that criticize the Westernization of the genre under north-eurocentric influences articulated by the ethnocentric bias of being a Western (white) woman, preliminary results: Western epistemological norms, we take them as a process that falls under African cultures, reshaping them, losing the essence of the world-worldview. However, the studies of African women strongly implies the de-westernization of gender, presenting the emergence of other epistemologies, contrasting with hegemonic science, the complexity of gender in Africa being present, which confuses with ambiguity, and, in addition, contributes for the strengthening of the approaches, be it of black feminisms, or of womanism.