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.
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 Zikokos 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
Novelists Suggestions on a New African Masculinity.
Chapter 7: Hyphenated
Bodies, Disassociated Masculinities: Configurations of Sex and Gender in
Arundhati Roys 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.
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.
