ISBN:
9781666944495
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.420967
Keywords:
Women-Africa, Sub-Saharan-Social conditions
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Sex role-Africa, Sub-Saharan
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Africa, Sub-Saharan-Social conditions-21st century
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Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa: Gender, Religion, and Ethno-cultural Identities -- 1. Sowing in the Wind Girls' Education in Kenya's Bungoma County -- 2. Gendered Political Institutions and Women's Career Identity Construction -- 3. To Have or Not to Have An African Perspective on Childlessness -- 4. Gender and Initiation Rites in Ejagham Land of Cameroon -- 5. Restoring Gender Knowledge in Kenya's Mau Mau War New Methods and Perspectives -- 6. Gender Inequality in the Peace-Building Process during the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon -- 7. From Hapless Victims to Helpful Collaborators? The Contradictions of Boko Haram Female Suicide Bombers in Nigeria, 200 -- 8. A Comparative Study of the Influence of Modernization on Traditional Gender Roles of Men and Women in Lagos and Ogun S -- 9. Ethnocentrism, Democratization, and Nation Building in Africa The Nigerian Experience -- 10. Identity Dynamics in the Southern Tier of the Cameroon-Nigeria Frontier -- 11. Redefining Cultural Identity in Nigeria through Dramatic and Theatrical Arts -- 12. Black Identity, Diasporic Consciousness, and Nigeria's Ambivalence to Pan-Africanism -- 13. Sidis in India, and of India Too? An Exploratory Study into the Identity of the African Diaspora in the Western India -- Appendix Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Results -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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