Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa

Gender, Religion, and Ethno-cultural Identities
Herausgeber: Falola, Toyin; Mbah, Emmanuel M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9781666944488
• ISBN-10: 1666944483
• Artikelnr.: 67991565

Autorenporträt

Toyin Falola is University Distinguished Professor and the Jacob and Francis Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities Department at the University of Texas at Austin and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights at the University of the Free State. Emmanuel M. Mbah is professor of history and Deputy Chair of the History Department at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa: Gender,
Religion, and Ethno-cultural Identities by Emmanuel M. Mbah and Toyin
Falola
Chapter 1: Sowing in the Wind: Girls' Education in Kenya's Bungoma County
by Namulundah Florence
Chapter 2: Gendered Political Institutions and Women's Career Identity
Construction by Wakil Ajibola Asekun
Chapter 3: To Have or Not to Have: An African Perspective on Childlessness
by Namulundah Florence
Chapter 4: Gender and Initiation Rites in Ejagham Land of Cameroon by
Victor Ntui Atom
Chapter 5: Restoring Gender Knowledge in Kenya's Mau Mau War: New Methods
and Perspectives by Mickie Mwanzia Koster
Chapter 6: Gender Inequality in the Peace Building Process during the
Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon by Primus Fonkeng
Chapter 7: From Hapless Victims to Helpful Collaborators? The
Contradictions of Boko Haram Female Suicide Bombers (FSBs) in Nigeria,
2009-2019 by Femi Adegbulu
Chapter 8: A Comparative Study of the Influence of Modernization on T