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The authors collected in Gendering Global Transformations: Gender,
Culture, Race, and Identity probe the effects of global and local
forces in reshaping notions of gender, race, class, identity, human
rights, and community across Africa and its Diaspora. The essays in
this unique collection employ diverse interdisciplinary
approaches--drawing from subjects such as history, sociology,
religion, anthropology, gender studies, feminist studies--in an
effort to centralize gender as a category of analysis in developing
critical perspectives in a globalizing world. From this approach
come a host of exciting insights and subtle analyses that serve to
illuminate the effects of issues such as international migration,
globalization, and cultural continuities among diaspora communities
on the articulation of women's agency, community organization, and
identity formation at the local and the global level. Bringing
together the voices of scholars from Africa, Europe and the United
States, Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race,
and Identity, offers a multi-national and wholly original
perspective on the intricacies of life in a globalized era.
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore
the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter
hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western
interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial
in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic
domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa's encounter with the
West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range
of perspectives to address the intersection between missions,
evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors
address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the
colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between
missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries
and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European
epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans;
and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African
societies. Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa
transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of
these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary
endeavours and official colonial actions could all be
conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the
same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies
in their encounter with African societies.
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore
the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter
hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western
interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial
in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic
domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa's encounter with the
West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range
of perspectives to address the intersection between missions,
evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors
address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the
colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between
missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries
and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European
epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans;
and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African
societies. Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa
transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of
these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary
endeavours and official colonial actions could all be
conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the
same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies
in their encounter with African societies.
The authors collected in Gendering Global Transformations: Gender,
Culture, Race, and Identity probe the effects of global and local
forces in reshaping notions of gender, race, class, identity, human
rights, and community across Africa and its Diaspora. The essays in
this unique collection employ diverse interdisciplinary
approaches--drawing from subjects such as history, sociology,
religion, anthropology, gender studies, feminist studies--in an
effort to centralize gender as a category of analysis in developing
critical perspectives in a globalizing world. From this approach
come a host of exciting insights and subtle analyses that serve to
illuminate the effects of issues such as international migration,
globalization, and cultural continuities among diaspora communities
on the articulation of women's agency, community organization, and
identity formation at the local and the global level. Bringing
together the voices of scholars from Africa, Europe and the United
States, Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race,
and Identity, offers a multi-national and wholly original
perspective on the intricacies of life in a globalized era.
A century ago, agriculture was the dominant economic sector in much
of Africa. By the 1990s, however, African farmers had declining
incomes and were worse off, on average, than those who did not
farm. Colonial policies, subsequent 'top-down' statism, and
globalization are usually cited as primary causes of this long-term
decline. In this unprecedented study of the Igbo region of
southeastern Nigeria, Chima Korieh points the way to a more complex
and inclusive approach to this issue. Using agricultural change as
a lens through which to view socio-economic and cultural change,
political struggle, and colonial hegemony, Korieh shows that
regional dynamics and local responses also played vital roles in
this era of transformation. British attempts to modernize the
densely populated Igbo region were focused largely on intensive
production of palm oil as a cash crop for export and on the
assumption of male dominance within a conventional western
hierarchy. This colonial agenda, however, collided with a
traditional culture in which females played important social and
political roles and male status was closely tied to yam
cultivation. Drawing on an astonishing array of sources, including
oral interviews, newspapers, private journals, and especially
letters of petition from local farmers and traders, Korieh puts the
reader in direct contact with ordinary people, evoking a feeling of
what it was like to live through the era. As such, The Land Has
Changed reveals colonial interactions as negotiated encounters
between officials and natives and challenges simplistic notions of
a hegemonic colonial state and a compliant native population.
Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made
Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in
the war against the Axis powers. Leading to large-scale
mobilization of human and materials resources, it transformed lives
and societies in irrevocable ways. Of the 90,000 West African
soldiers deployed to South East Asia after 1943, over half came
from Nigeria. In this important, revisionist history, Chima J.
Korieh examines how the lives of Nigerian producers, workers,
merchants, men, women, and children from across society were
affected. It recounts the extraordinary and often neglected story
of the Nigerian people who were drawn into a global war, the
enormous demands it made on their resources, and the way it would
change both their lives and the societies they lived in. By placing
the role that African societies played in the war within the
contextual and theoretical frameworks of colonialism, race, gender,
identity, labour, intellectual, and social history, Korieh
challenges the dominant perception that World War II was primarily
a European conflict and reveals the global impact of ordinary
Nigerians on the war effort.
In 1967, Nigeria was plunged into a brutal civil war with
secessionist Biafra. The war, which lasted for 30 months and led to
the death of over one million ethnic Igbo, has been described as
the first genocide in post-colonial Africa. Although much has been
written about the Nigeria Civil war, most of what has been written
remains the perspectives of the major actors and generals who
conducted the war. This book, through careful analysis of the
experiences of those who witnessed the war on the Biafra side as
well as other primary and archival sources, brings to life the
Civil War-time trials and tribulations of ordinary Biafrans.
Focusing primarily on the Biafran side of that civil war, the book
reexamines the civil war from the perspective of non-military
support of the war effort and the lingering human costs of that
conflict. It also presents the Biafra experience in the context of
issues of genocide, the role of humanitarian and international
civil or advocacy groups; International Organizations and conflict
resolution; and the impact of the Cold War and resources control
(oil) in shaping the contours of the Nigeria-Biafra War. Based on
personal experiences of the Biafra-Nigeria War, this book speaks to
some elements in the causes of the war, the actual conduct of the
war on both sides, and the underlying genocidal rather than
political motivations for the war. As Michael J. C. Echeruo notes
"Biafra should stand in the world's conscience as a monument to the
possibility of successfully resisting 'final solutions.'"' This is
an important book for collections in African studies, history,
international studies, and political science.
This book explores the various facets of the relationship between
minorities and the state across Africa. The motivation for this
collection lies in the growing need to understand the often tenuous
relationship between minorities and the state. Through this
collection, the editors and contributors present thoughtful ways
for understanding forms of hegemony imposed by dominant groups in
relational, national, and regional experiences. The book offers
alternative conceptual and theoretical approaches and alternative
research strategies for dealing with minority/majority issues, as
well as resource control in historical and contemporary
perspectives. The collection focuses on minority issues in
contemporary Africa from a historical perspective, but also links
these issues to global movements (such as international human
rights) in an innovative manner. This book employs a cross-regional
approach to explore specific issues in minority-state relations and
human rights. This unprecedented approach holds the potential of
serving as a foundation study for future research that seek to
employ a comparative approach to specific issues in minority and
human rights studies.
Chinua Achebe and the Igbo-African World: Between Fiction, Fact,
and Historical Representation explores Chinua Achebe's literary
works and how they communicated the Igbo-African world to readers.
Engaging in the politics of representation, Achebe sought to
demystify deterministic views of race and cultural ethnocentrism.
While his books and commentaries have been very influential in
shaping a unique and multifaceted view of the African world, some
scholars have challenged Achebe's representations of historical
reality. Through in-depth analyses of his writing, contributors
examine the interpretations Achebe imposed on African culture and
history in his texts. The chapters cover Achebe's engagement with
critical issues like historical representation, gender relations,
and indigenous political institutions in a changing society.
Throughout, contributors present new ways for understanding
Achebe's literary works and show how his work draws from African
historical reality and identity while challenging Western
epistemological hegemony.
Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy explores the
intersection of public policy, human rights, and sexuality as they
relate to inclusion and exclusion across diverse cultural settings.
It examines how knowledge is formed and experienced at the
intersections of culture, sexuality, race, and other axes of
identity. This volume engages an array of questions including how
public policy shapes the conceptualization of sexuality and rights
and by extension the phenomena of inclusion and exclusion in
contemporary society across the world. By evaluating how public
discourse is employed to re-inscribe differences of gender,
sexuality, and rights of citizens, this book provides a comparative
analysis of how these processes and dynamics resemble each other or
differ cross-culturally. This book demonstrates that in the realm
of sexualities, approached from the ideal of human rights as a
predominantly Western notion is increasingly challenged by diverse
views and new interpretations of human rights in non-Western
societies such as Africa and the Middle East.
New Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War: No Victor, No
Vanquished analyzes the continued impact of the Nigeria-Biafra war
on the Igbo, the failure of the reconstruction and reconciliation
effort in the post-war period, and the politics of exclusion of the
memory of the war in public discourse in Nigeria. Furthermore, New
Perspectives on the Nigeria-Biafra War explores the resilience of
the Igbo people and the different strategies they have employed to
preserve the history and memory of Biafra. The contributors argue
that the war had important consequences for the socio-political
developments in the post-war period, ushering in two differing
ideologies: a paternalistic ideology of "co-option" of the Igbo by
the Nigerian state, under the false premise of 'No Victor, No
Vanquished," and the Igbo commitment to self-preservation on the
other.
Sexuality, Human Rights, and Public Policy explores the
intersection of public policy, human rights, and sexuality as they
relate to inclusion and exclusion across diverse cultural settings.
It examines how knowledge is formed and experienced at the
intersections of culture, sexuality, race, and other axes of
identity. The volume engages an array of questions including how
public policy shapes the conceptualization of sexuality and rights
and by extension the phenomena of inclusion and exclusion in
contemporary society across the world. By evaluating how public
discourse is employed to re-inscribe differences of gender,
sexuality, and rights of citizens, the book provides a comparative
analysis of how these processes and dynamics resemble each other or
differ cross-culturally. The book demonstrates that in the realm of
sexualities, approached from the ideal of human rights as a
predominantly Western notion is increasingly challenged by diverse
views and new interpretations of human rights in non-Western
societies such as Africa and the Middle East.
Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria is concerned with the
problematic nature of religion and politics in Nigerian history.
The book provides a lively and straightforward treatment of the
relationship among religion, politics, and history in Nigeria, and
how it affects public life today. By adopting various cultural,
historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the text's
contributors provide an excellent introduction to the volatile mix
of religion and politics in Nigerian history, as well as a range of
strategic choices open to religious adherents. The complexity of
the relationship among religion, history, and politics is organized
around four themes: indigenous values and the influence of Islam
and Christianity, colonialism and religious transformation, the
religious landscape of the post-colonial period, and the rise of
evangelism and fundamentalism. The volume provides an insightful
guide to contemporary history, contemporary religion, and
contemporary politics, enabling the reader to reach informed and
balanced judgments about the role in religion in Nigerian history
and politics. This opens the door for serious examination and
debate, and will be excellent for use by the general reader and in
political science, history, and religion courses.
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