TY - BOOK AU - Falola,Toyin AU - Mbah,Emmanuel M. TI - Negotiating identities in contemporary Africa: gender, religion, and ethno-cultural identities SN - 9781666944488 AV - HQ1787 .N485 2023 PY - 2023///] KW - Women KW - Africa, Sub-Saharan KW - Social conditions KW - Sex role KW - Ethnicity KW - 21st century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa: Gender, Religion, and Ethno-cultural Identities; by Emmanuel M. Mbah and Toyin Falola --; Chapter 1: Sowing in the Wind: Girls' Education in Kenya's Bungoma County; by Namulundah Florence --; Chapter 2: Gendered Political Institutions and Women's Career Identity Construction; by Wakil Ajibola Asekun --; Chapter 3: To Have or Not to Have: An African Perspective on Childlessness; by Namulundah Florence --; Chapter 4: Gender and Initiation Rites in Ejagham Land of Cameroon; by Victor Ntui Atom --; Chapter 5: Restoring Gender Knowledge in Kenya's Mau Mau War: New Methods and Perspectives; by Mickie Mwanzia Koster --; Chapter 6: Gender Inequality in the Peace Building Process during the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon; by Primus Fonkeng --; Chapter 7: From Hapless Victims to Helpful Collaborators? The Contradictions of Boko Haram Female Suicide Bombers (FSBs) in Nigeria, 2009-2019; by Femi Adegbulu --; Chapter 8: A Comparative Study of the Influence of Modernization on Traditional Gender Roles of Men and Women in Lagos and Ogun States, Nigeria; by Tolu Ogunleye --; Chapter 9: Ethnocentrism, Democratization and Nation Building in Africa: The Nigerian Experience; by Steve A Iyayi --; Chapter 10: Identity Dynamics in the Southern Tier of the Cameroon-Nigeria Frontier; by Victor Ntui Atom --; Chapter 11: Redefining Cultural Identity in Nigeria through Dramatic and Theatrical Arts; by Adedoyin Aguoru --; Chapter 12: "I never knew I was a Negro until I came to America." Black Identity, Diasporic Consciousness, and Nigerian Ambivalence to Pan-Africanism; by Ajibola A. Abdulrahman --; Chapter 13: Sidis in India, and of India, too? An Exploratory Study into the Identity of the African Diaspora in the Western Indian State of Gujarat; by Pradeep Mallik --; Appendix A: 2016 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Results of Select Bungoma County Boys' Secondary/High Schools --; Appendix B: 2016 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Results of Select Bungoma County Girls' Secondary/High Schools --; Appendix C: 2016 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Results of Select Bungoma County Mixed Secondary/High Schools in Bungoma County --; Appendix D: 2016 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Results of the Two National Schools in Bungoma County. --; Appendix E: 2016 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education results of Extra-County High Schools in Bungoma County. --; Appendix F: 2017 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Results of Bumula Constituency, Secondary/High Schools in Bungoma County N2 - "This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity"-- ER -