Defining a Mother-Centered Matrix to Analyze the Status of Women

Abstract

This article focuses on the significance of mother-centeredness to state development. Modern Africa is faced with the imposition of Western states that are fundamentally male-centered and antithetical to the well-being of Africa and her people and, for that matter, all humanity. Defining the Mother-Centered Matrix that underpinned the development of Kemet challenges the belief that the United States and other modern states are necessarily progressive. Issues of “development” from a culturally sensitive perspective highlight the importance of Kemet as a state model that can provide contemporary African people with examples of ways of governing and living that are still unparalleled by modern states.