Overview

This book focuses on African gender and sexuality, and systems of knowledge emanating from studying and researching them. It challenges conventional narratives by examining the complexities of gender and sexuality within the African Humanities, and explores the fluidity and diversity of gender identities, questioning traditional norms and embracing the ambiguous and contradictory nature of human sexuality. The book is transdisciplinary in nature, with contributors analysing data from literature, media, and cultural practices, and offering fresh perspectives on issues such as sexism, patriarchy, and the representation of women in digital spaces. It will be of interest to those in the field of African gender studies, gender in humanistic disciplines and gender and sexualities in general.

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Author:   Wumi Raji
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783032180803

ISBN 10:   3032180805
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   26 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Africana.- Chapter 2: An Africana Womanist Perspective of Gender Participation in the Performing Arts in Zimbabwe.- Part 2: Media.- Chapter 3: Misrepresentation of Women: A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Sexist Nigerian Facebook Jokes.- Chapter 4: Interrogating Patriarchy and Homophobia in Zikoko’s Online Magazine.- Chapter 5: Gender Hierarchies in Nigerian Broadcast Media: A Study of Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) and African Independent Television (AIT).- Part 3: The Literary.- Chapter 6: The Secret Love for Baba Segi: An African Feminist Novelist’s Suggestions on a New African Masculinity.- Chapter 7: Hyphenated Bodies, Disassociated Masculinities: Configurations of Sex and Gender in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.-Chapter 8: The Phallus-Virginia Nexus of Complementarity in Ola Rotimi's Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again.- Part 4: The Anthropological.- Chapter 9: ’Ogun Obinrin’: Yoruba Women and Power Relations.- Chapter 10: In Between Tradition and Modernity: The Case of Mbororo Women in the North West Province Region of Cameroon (1980-2022).- Part 5: A Western Perspective.- Chapter 11: Crisis? What Crisis?: Rethinking Masculinity Studies in a Western Context – New Perspectives and Tendencies.- Chapter 12: Afterword.

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Wumi Raji is a Professor of Drama and Literature at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He has received several awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, Bonn, Germany, and the African Visiting Research Fellowship of the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Long Dreams in Short Chapters: Essays in Postcolonial African, Cultural and Political Criticisms.

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