Digital Expressions of Gender in Africa

 Foreword (by Ignatius Chukwumah)

1. Gender, Performance and Digital Spaces in Africa
Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula

 PART I: Transgressing Normative Gender

2. Realizing and Normalizing ‘New’ Gender Identities through Social Media Platforms
Dimpho Takane Maponya

3. Subverting Gender Binaries in Kenya’s Mama Fathma’s Kiswahili TikTok Comedy
Wendo Nabea

4. North African ArabicLiteraryExpressionsof LGBTQIA+  Identityin the DigitalSpace
Sebastian Gadomski

5. Digital Skit Makers and Gender Expression in Ghana: The Case of Deaconess Abokuma and Akonoba
Ellen Abakah, Abena Kyere and Cecilia Avorkliyah

PART II: Contested Masculinities on Online Sites

6. Exploring Transiting Masculinities in African Digital Literary Texts
Grace Danquah

7. Perceptions of ‘The Unfaithful Lover’ and In/vulnerability in the Ztorie Bhuku Blog
Walter Kudzai Barure

8. Re-imagining Masculinity and The Trickster Model in African Digital Acts
Nwani Treasure Okoronkwor

PART III: Call-Out Culture and Resistance

9. African Women and The Politics of Refusal in a Digital Era
Dina Ligaga

10. The Role of Cyberbullying in Gender Identity Performance by Cameroonians Online
Camilla Arundie Tabe and Agwetang Mabel Endah

PART IV: Navigating Men’s Dominance: Women and Self-Expressions

11. Women YouTube Rappers in Tunisia: Neither Manly nor Sluts, but Rap Lovers
Jyhene Kebsi

12. Re-assessing Feminine Portraits in Social Media Comedy Skits: The Anglophone Cameroon Context
Lynda Chinenye Ambrose

13. Female Imaging: Zambian Women Writers and The Digital Space
Shilika Chisoko

14. Gender Expressions, Digital Sites and An Inclusive Future
Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula

Biography

Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Graz.

“This transdisciplinary volume presents a thought-provoking discussion of gender in Africa that promises to newly inform, perhaps even transform, the reader’s understanding of both concepts. An informative introduction and nuanced analyses offer new insights, with no easy takes, on the complex role of gender in contemporary digital spaces.”

— Brian Valente-Quinn, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, US.

“Resonant discourses; embodied in crucial gender debates that are transformative. The double bind, yet the excitement that Digital Expressions of Gender in Africa generates extends and deepens our understanding of netizens, agency, sexualities, performativity and heteronormativity. Where social media encounters gender debates or vice versa is of profound significance today.”

— Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong, Assistant Professor, Hmt Rostock/Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

“Amaefula’s edited collection is essential and pioneering. It spans the digital realm and African continent from various vantage points. It unpacks the ways in which user engagement in digital space, interrogates, negotiates and reinvents established gender norms, reinterprets traditions/folklore, and creates new gender identities in the African context and beyond.”

— Monique Charles, Assistant Professor, Chapman University, US.