Full Description
This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora.
An interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the role of gender in development against the background of Africa's convoluted and arduous history of state formation, slavery, colonialism, post-independence, nation-building and poverty. Each chapter highlights and stimulates further discussion on the struggles that many African and African Diaspora societies grapple with in the perplexing issue of gender and development - concentrating on gains that have been made and the challenges yet to be surmounted.
Contents
Introduction: Perspectives on Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora
1. Women as Sandwiches in the Jaws of Violence: A Study of the Impact of Crisis on the Female Gender in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Novels Augustine O. Evue
2. Violence against Women in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's trafficked: An African Feminist Insight
Charles A. Bodunde and Foluke R. Aliyu-Ibrahim
3. Narrating the Woes of Women in Wartime: The Examples of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Roses and Bullets and Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun
Ezinwanyi E. Adam & Chinenye M. Egboh
4. Female Circumcision: Inexpressiveness and Loss in Julie Okoh's Edewede
Oludolapo Ojediran
5. Gender and Dramaturgy in Wale Ogunyemi's Queen Amina of Zazzau and Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu
Ojo Olusegun Olorunleke
6. Socio-Cultural Perception of Sexist Yoruba Proverbs and Implications for Peace and National Cohesion
Adeniyi Kikelomo, Jegede Francis, and Adebanjo Mopelola
7. Asunle cannot be a man: A Gendered Analysis of Yoruba Praise Names in Yorubaland and the Diaspora
Akinloye Ojo
8. Gender Equality, Gender Inequality or Gender Complementarity: Insights from Igbo Traditional culture
Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob
9. Gender and Contesting Phenomena (Religion, Culture, and Ethnicity): Towards Development in Africa and the African Diaspora
Oyeronke Olademo
10. Gender Equality: A Comparative Narrative in African Religious Christian and Islamic Traditions
Adepeju Johson-Bashua
11. Gender Equality Narratives in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs: Contents and Discontents
Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe
12. Islamic law of Inheritance: Ultimate Solution to Social inequality against Women in Yoruba land
Abdulmajeed Hassan Bello
13. Not on this Mat: A Biographical Sketch of Marriage, Labor, Sex and Gender Relations in an African History
Ebenezer Ayesu
14. Culture and Development: Indigenous Structures, Gender, and Everyday Life in Colonial Coastal Southern Ghana
Kwaku Nti
15. The Challenge of Gender: Marginal Participation of Women in Mathematics in Nigeria
Ayo. S. Obale-Hundoyin
16. Rural Women Farmers and Food Production in Ekiti-Kwara, Nigeria: Motives and Challenges of Operation
Raphael Abiodun Olawepo
17. Female Achievement in Geography and Planning in Lagos State University, Nigeria
Mohammad Olaitan Lawal
18. Women and Sport in Kenya
Janet Musimbi M'mbaha and Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono
