Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora

<p>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. </p><p></p><p>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. </p> <p>Introduction: Perspectives on Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora</p><p></p><p>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 <em>Augustine O. Evue</em> </p><p></p><p>2. Violence against Women in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s trafficked: An African Feminist Insight</p><p></p><p><em>Charles A. Bodunde and Foluke R. Aliyu-Ibrahim</em></p><p></p><p>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</p><p></p><p><em>Ezinwanyi E. Adam & Chinenye M. Egboh</em></p><p></p><p>4. Female Circumcision: Inexpressiveness and Loss in Julie Okoh’s Edewede</p><p></p><p><em>Oludolapo Ojediran</em></p><p></p><p>5. Gender and Dramaturgy in Wale Ogunyemi’s Queen Amina of Zazzau and Femi Osofisan’s Women of Owu</p><p></p><p><em>Ojo Olusegun</em> <em>Olorunleke</em></p><p></p><p>6. Socio-Cultural Perception of Sexist Yoruba Proverbs and Implications for Peace and National Cohesion</p><p></p><p><em>Adeniyi Kikelomo, Jegede Francis, and Adebanjo Mopelola </em></p><p></p><p>7. Asunle cannot be a man: A Gendered Analysis of Yoruba Praise Names in Yorubaland and the Diaspora</p><p></p><p><em>Akinloye Ojo</em></p><p></p><p>8. Gender Equality, Gender Inequality or Gender Complementarity: Insights from Igbo Traditional culture </p><p></p><p><em>Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob</em> </p><p></p><p>9. Gender and Contesting Phenomena (Religion, Culture, and Ethnicity): Towards Development in Africa and the African Diaspora</p><p></p><p><em>Oyeronke Olademo</em></p><p></p><p>10. Gender Equality: A Comparative Narrative in African Religious Christian and Islamic Traditions </p><p></p><p><em>Adepeju Johson-Bashua</em></p><p></p><p>11. Gender Equality Narratives in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs: Contents and Discontents </p><p></p><p><em>Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe</em></p><p></p><p>12. Islamic law of Inheritance: Ultimate Solution to Social inequality against Women in Yoruba land </p><p></p><p><em>Abdulmajeed Hassan Bello</em></p><p></p><p>13. Not on this Mat: A Biographical Sketch of Marriage, Labor, Sex and Gender Relations in an African History </p><p></p><p><em>Ebenezer Ayesu </em></p><p></p><p>14. Culture and Development: Indigenous Structures, Gender, and Everyday Life in Colonial Coastal Southern Ghana </p><p></p><p><em>Kwaku Nti</em></p><p></p><p>15. The Challenge of Gender: Marginal Participation of Women in Mathematics in Nigeria </p><p></p><p><em>Ayo. S. Obale-Hundoyin </em></p><p></p><p>16. Rural Women Farmers and Food Production in Ekiti-Kwara, Nigeria: Motives and Challenges of Operation </p><p></p><p><em>Raphael Abiodun Olawepo</em></p><p></p><p>17. Female Achievement in Geography and Planning in Lagos State University, Nigeria </p><p></p><p><em>Mohammad Olaitan Lawal</em></p><p></p><p>18. Women and Sport in Kenya </p><p></p><p><em>Janet Musimbi M’mbaha and Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono</em></p>