Gender and development in Africa and its diaspora. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Akinloyè Òjó, Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono.
• Editors: Ojó, Akinloyè; Aderibigbe, Gbola; Kiprono, Felisters Jepchirchir
• 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
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.4096; Women -- Africa -- Social conditions; Women in economic development -- Africa; African literature (English) -- History and criticism; Women in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351119887; 9781351119894; 9781351119870; 9781351119900
• Related ISBNs: 9780815359722
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