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If you to go deeper anthropologically speaking, the West Africans (and their descendants in the Americas) have a different anthropological system (family structure + gender relationships) than Western Europeans : it combines a prevalence of polygamy in terms of gender relationships (or even if de jure illegal, of men cheating and having multiple side chicks), which is a sign of indeed as you said, strong masculinity, but at the same time, with a strong matriarchal family structure (women being breadwinner + head of household).
As the French anthropologist Emmanuel Todd explained, in the West African polygamous system, the "father" is de facto everywhere and nowhere at the same time (having different houses, different women to satisfy every different day, meaning in practice, having less times to take care of other children daily, so in practice, it is the mother who raise the children)
It creates a subconscious mentality of having dominant men (sign of masculinity) but at the same time, also dominant women (sign of matriarchy). An anthropological paradox at first sight for the Western reader, who in his mind, masculinity = patriarchy = male dominance = female submission = gender inequality.
This is completely different from the traditional, post-Neolithic Revolution and pre-Contemporary era West Eurasian model of patriarchy, which creates a strong unequal gender relationship, where males are dominant and women are submitted to their husbands, fathers, brothers...
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