1st Edition
African Women, ICT and Neoliberal Politics The Challenge of Gendered Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Acronyms
Foreword
Introduction: In the Traditions of Professor Victor C. Uchendu and Professor Ifi Amadiume: African Women and the Challenge of Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance
1. The Mobile Ecosystem and Internet Access on the African Content: Asymmetry and the Gender Digital Divide
2. ICT, Women’s Status, and Governance in Zimbabwe
3. ICT, Women’s Status, and Governance in Tanzania, 2010 and 2015–2016
4. ICT, Women’s Status, and Governance in Malawi, 2010 and 2015–2016
5. ICT, Diffusion of Knowledge to Women, Gender Inclusive Governance, and Impacts on Women’s Lives in Three African Nations
Conclusion
References
Index
References
Biography
Biography
Assata Zerai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Zerai’s interests have included maternal and child health (MCH), health activism, safe water and sanitation, ICT in Africa and the African Diaspora, and making the intellectual work of African woman scholars and activitists more acccessible; as well as U.S.-based studies of MCH, Black feminist praxis, and diversity and LGBTIQ inclusiveness in Protestant congregations. Her recent books include Safe Water, Sanitation and Early Childhood Malnutrition in East Africa: An Africana Feminist Analysis of the lives of Women and Children in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda (Zerai and Brenda N. Sanya, eds, Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2018); Intersectionality in Intentional Communities: The Struggle for Inclusivity in Multicultural U.S. Protestant Congregations (Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books, 2016); and Hypermasculinity and State Violence in Zimbabwe: An Africana Feminist Analysis of Maternal and Child Health (Africa World Press, 2014).
