Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora

Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora
ISBN-10
0367665441
ISBN-13
9780367665449
Category
African literature (English)
Pages
228
Language
English
Published
2020-09-30
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Akinloye Ojo, Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono

Description

Introduction. Perspectives on gender and development in Africa and its diaspora / Akinloyè Òjó, Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe, and Felisters Kiprono -- 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 -- Violence against women in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Trafficked : an African feminist insight / Charles A. Bodunde (Ph. D) and Foluke R. Aliyu-Ibrahim -- Narrating the woes of women in war times : 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 -- Female circumcision : inexpressiveness and loss in Julie Okoh's Edewede / Oludolapo Ojediran -- Gender and dramaturgy in Wale Ogunyemi's Queen Amina of Zazzau and Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu / Ojo Olorunleke -- Socio-cultural perception of sexist Yoruba proverbs and implications for peace and national cohesion / Adeniyi Kikelomo, Jegede Francis, and Adebanjo Mopelola -- Asunle cannot be a man : a gendered analysis of Yoruba praise names in Yorubaland and the diaspora / Akinloyè Òjó -- Gender equality, gender inequality or gender complementarity : insights from Igbo traditional culture / Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob -- Gender and contesting phenomena (religion, culture, and ethnicity) : towards development in Africa and the African diaspora / Oyeronke Olademo -- Gender equality : a comparative narrative in African religious Christian and Islamic traditions / Adepeju Johson-Bashua -- Gender equality narratives in African cultural and religious beliefs : contents and discontents / Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe -- Islamic law of inheritance : ultimate solution to social inequality against women in Yoruba land / Abdulmajeed Hassan Bello -- Not on this mat : a biographical sketch of marriage, labor, sex and gender relations in an African history / Ebenezer Ayesu -- Culture and development : indigenous structures, gender, and everyday life in colonial coastal southern Ghana / Kwaku Nti -- The challenge of gender : marginal participation of women in mathematics in Nigeria / Obale-Hundeyin Ayo. S -- Rural women farmers and food production in Ekiti-Kwara, Nigeria : motives and challenges of operation / Olawepo. R. A -- Female achievement in geography and planning in Lagos State University, Nigeria / Mohammad Olaitan Lawal -- Women and sport in Kenya / Janet Musimbi M'mbaha.

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