Patriarchy and The Women Who Keep It Alive: A Colonial and African Len
In this episode, Chisom examines how patriarchy persists not only through men, but through systems that condition women to uphold it for survival. She traces its roots in agriculture, property, and control of reproduction, and explores how colonialism and religion reinforced it in Africa. Using her Three Clarities Framework, she unpacks how these dynamics are reproduced across generations—and what it takes to confront them.
With Chisom Udeze, Solo
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Show Notes
Patriarchy doesn’t just survive because men enforce it. It survives because women uphold it too—not out of cruelty, but because the system made survival depend on compliance. In this episode, Chisom traces the root cause of patriarchy (agriculture, private property, and the control of reproduction), shows how colonialism and religion weaponized it in Africa, and uses her Three Clarities Framework to diagnose why mothers reinforce culture that harm daughters, grandmothers police granddaughters, and women enforce the very systems that broke them. This isn’t about blame. It’s about naming the system—and rooting it out.