Ethnicities, nationalities, and cross-cultural representations in Africa and the diaspora / edited by Gloria Chuku.

Other author Chuku, Gloria, editor.
Format Book
PublicationDurham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2015]
Descriptionxlvi, 363 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesAfrican world series
Carolina Academic Press African world series. ^A1108243
Contents Section I. Africans, Diasporan Africans, and the Development of Africa and its Diasporic Communities: Chapter 1. The repatriates and creolization processes in West Africa: the case of Victoria in British Southern Cameroons / Richard Enoh; Chapter 2. Nwafor Orizu, the American Council on African Education, and the promotion of American education in Nigeria / Gloria Chuku; Chapter 3. Rethinking the African diaspora in the era of globalization: building economic capacity for the twenty-first century and beyond / Bessie House-Soremekun; Chapter 4. "I have no news": African history and African studies today / Michael Vickers. -- Section II. Gendered Rituals and Performances in Africa and the Diaspora: Chapter 5. Religion in Africa and the universal culture of initiation rites / Adelowo F. Adetunji and Adefemi Adesina; Chapter 6. "Que dança é essa?": reflections of gendered power relations and sociocultural expressions of sexuality in agarrado dancing to roots reggae in São Luis do Maranhão, Brazil / Gee A. Yawson; Chapter 7. African women in drumming: the art and performance of Ayanbinrin / Mobolanle E. Sotunsa; Chapter 8. Costumes and apparels of popular masquerades in Cross River State, Nigeria / Bojor Enamhe. -- Section III. Nationalities, Media and Literary Representations of Africa and Africans. Chapter 9. Japanese newspaper coverage of Africa (and African soldiers) during World War II: the case of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi (Mainichi) Shimbun, 1939-1945 / Yasu'o Mizobe; Chapter 10. The defunct 'self' and 'other': constructing new identity for nationhood in Zakes Mda's The bells of Amersfoort / Busuyi E. Mekusi; Chapter 11. Interpretations of African migrant masculinities in contemporary francophone novels / Eunice E. Omonzejie. -- Section IV. Politics and the Dynamics of Ethnicity and Nationality in Africa: Chapter 12. Federal character: the untold realities of the Nigerian geopolitics / Bola Dauda; Chapter 13. Ethnic nationalism, statism, citizenship and the right to non-discrimination under the Nigerian Constitution / Eteete M. Adam; Chapter 14. Can Pax Nigeriana survive Chinese Africana? / Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi and Bukola Ajayi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2015001405
ISBN9781611636635 (alk. paper)
ISBN1611636639 (alk. paper)

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