Lhe matriarchy preceded the patriarchy in the gathering and hunting societies, then in those of breeding with the mother goddess. This system would not be based on sex discrimination, but on the importance given to the feminine, the woman embodying the reproduction of the species and its hope of sustainability in a temporal dimension which was not linear as it became with patriarchy, but cyclical. Black African societies are matriarchal and Western societies are patriarchal. The return to matriarchy in Africa is a solution for the rebalancing of our societies in need of benchmarks.
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Matriarchate Akan (Côte-de-l'Or: Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Benin).
The Akans and Ashanti consider the bond between mother and child as the keystone of all social relationships. They consider it an absolutely obligatory moral kinship.
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Matriarchal Agni, Adjoukrou and Fanti (Akans from Ivory Coast and Ghana).
When the chosen heir is the maternal nephew; an ethnic group related to the ancient Egyptians.
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Matriarchate Ashanti (Ghana and Ivory Coast).
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