Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora
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 Africas 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 developmentconcentrating on gains that have been made and the challenges yet to be surmounted.
Akinloy j is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the African Studies Institute (ASI) of the University of Georgia, USA.
Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe is Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Georgia, USA.
Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono received her PhD in Workforce Education from the University of Georgia, USA.
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Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora
Edited by Akinloy j, Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono
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Ezinwanyi E. Adam, PhD, has a passion for excellence and a commitment to academic scholarship that are quite reflective of and remarkably portrayed in her qualitative research. She works on gender and womens studies, African and comparative literature, as well as development studies. She is a recipient of the 2015 Cadbury Fellowship and 2015 AHP/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship for African scholars. She was also a Resident Research Fellow at the West African Research Center (WARC), Fann Residence, Dakar, Senegal, in 2016. Dr. Adam is a lecturer at the Department of Languages and Literary Studies, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria.
Mopelola Omowumi Adebanjo, PhD, is a lecturer at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto/Ijanikin. She teaches English Language and Literature in the Department of English. Her main interest areas are language teaching, phonetics and phonology, and sociolinguistics. She is currently working on her doctoral studies at Lagos State University, Ojo, Lagos, Nigeria.
Kikelomo Victoria Adeniyi, PhD, teaches English Language in the English Department, School of Languages, Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto/Ijanikin, Lagos, Nigeria, as well as the Dean of the School of Languages. She is a specialist on Nigerian English, an essayist, and a short story writer with particular interest in childrens literature.
Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe, PhD, is Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. Currently he serves as the Associate Director of the African Studies Institute. His main fields of teaching and research are African religion and Religions of Africa in the Diaspora. He has written and co-edited numerous books. His latest works are Contextualizing Religion: Study and Practice (2016); Contextualizing Africans and Globalization: Expressions in Sociopolitical and Religious Contents and Discontents (2016); Contemporary Perspectives on Religious in Africa and African Diaspora (2015); and Contextualizing Indigenous Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora (2015).
Foluke R. Aliyu-Ibrahim, PhD, is a lecturer in the Department of English, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, where she teaches courses in literature. Her areas of interest are feminism, gender studies, literary criticism, and culture studies. Her work has been published in local, national, and international journals.
Ebenezer Ayesu, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon. He studied at the Indiana University, Bloomington, IN for his Ph.D. While in the US, he worked as Visiting Faculty in the department of History at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. Before then, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim; at the African Studies Program at the Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, and a Fulbright Scholar also at the Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA. His teaching and research focus on African History with special emphasis on Traditional Institutions; Festivals and Royal Funerals; eighteenth and nineteenth centuries European activities in West Africa; Biographies, Labor, Gender and Sexuality in African History and the African Diaspora. He has published on Afro-Brazilians in Ghana; Chieftaincy, Church and the family in Ghana; the African Diaspora; Biographies; Youth unemployment and superstition; and Marriage, Gender and Labor relations in Ghana.
