ISBN:
9781666917932
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (335 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Africa: Past, Present and Prospects Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
320.96
Keywords:
Ethnicity-Political aspects
;
Group identity
;
Identity (Psychology)-Social aspects
Abstract:
This book interrogates how identities are politicized, transformed, and mobilized throughout the African continent to demonstrate alternatives for nation building. It examines ways of transforming identity and provides concrete options where institutions and technology mobilize for education and empowerment around issues of African identities.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Interrogating the Trends, Ethics, and Political, Economic, and Cultural Elements of Identity -- Politics of Being and Its Contemporary Implications in Africa -- 'Ubuntu' Dialogic Ethics -- Interrogating Identity Politics in Nigeria -- Monetary Sovereignty, Sovereign Identities, and Monetary Identities in Ghana and Nigeria in the L -- Music as a Tool for Sustainable Development in Nigerian Society -- Identity and Ethnic Conflict, Transformation, Reconciliation, and Empowerment -- Ethnicity, Peacebuilding, and Conflict Transformation in Nigeria -- How Rwanda Transformed Identity Post-Genocide -- African Bureaucracies and the Implementation of Women Empowerment Programs -- Internet and Social Media Foster Identity Change, Exploration, and Mobilization -- Building Global Citizenship through the African Digital Public Humanities -- Mobilizing Student Interest in African Identity -- Institutional Change and Identity -- Tracking Political and Religious Mobilization Against Queer Men in Senegal -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Editors and Contributors.
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