Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa: Gender, Religion, and Ethno-cultural Identities

Toyin Falola; Emmanuel M. Mbah

doi:10.5771/9781666944495

Summary

Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa: Gender, Religion, and Ethno-cultural Identities explores the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity. Toyin Falola and Emmanuel M. Mbah argue that because identity defines who we are as individuals or groups, studies on African identities must focus on understanding the changing dynamics in the socio-economic and political spheres in the continent. These chapters cover subjects such as women’s career identity, gender roles and knowledge, childlessness, ethnocentrism and democracy, cultural identity through theater, Black identity in the diaspora, and diasporic consciousness. Using existing scholarship, the chapters in this edited volume challenge our understanding of what identity entails and provide new discussions on the hitherto politicized historiography of some identities in Africa.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-4448-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-4449-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 274
Product Type: Edited Book

Chapter 1 Sowing in the Wind No access Pages i - 26
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Chapter 2 Gendered Political Institutions and Women’s Career Identity Construction No access Pages 27 - 40
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Chapter 3 To Have or Not to Have No access Pages 41 - 62
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Chapter 4 Gender and Initiation Rites in Ejagham Land of Cameroon No access Pages 63 - 92
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Chapter 5 Restoring Gender Knowledge in Kenya’s Mau Mau War No access Pages 93 - 112
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Chapter 6 Gender Inequality in the Peace-Building Process during the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon No access Pages 113 - 130
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Chapter 7 From Hapless Victims to Helpful Collaborators? No access Pages 131 - 146
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Chapter 8 A Comparative Study of the Influence of Modernization on Traditional Gender Roles of Men and Women in Lagos and Ogun States, Nigeria No access Pages 147 - 156
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Chapter 9 Ethnocentrism, Democratization, and Nation Building in Africa No access Pages 157 - 176
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Chapter 10 Identity Dynamics in the Southern Tier of the Cameroon-Nigeria Frontier No access Pages 177 - 200
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Chapter 11 Redefining Cultural Identity in Nigeria through Dramatic and Theatrical Arts No access Pages 201 - 222
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Chapter 12 Black Identity, Diasporic Consciousness, and Nigeria’s Ambivalence to Pan-Africanism No access Pages 223 - 240
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Chapter 13 Sidis in India, and of India Too? No access Pages 241 - 254
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Appendix No access Pages 255 - 260
Index No access Pages 261 - 268
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 269 - 274