1st Edition
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora Contesting History and Power
Part I: (Re-)Writing Gender in African and African Diaspora History
1. The Bantu Matrilineal Belt: Reframing African Women’s History
2. REMAPping the African Diaspora: Place, Gender, and Negotiation in Arabian Slavery
3. Communicating Feminist Ethics in the Age of New Media in Africa
Part II: Gender, Migration, and Identity
4. Transnational Feminist Solidarity, Black German Women, and the Politics of Belonging
5. Beyond Disability: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and Female Heroism in Manu Herbstein’s Ama
6. Reverse Migration of Africans in the Diaspora: Foregrounding a Woman’s Quest for her Roots in Tess Onwueme’s Legacies
Part III: Gender, Subjection, and Power
7. Queens in Flight: Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat Queens and the Performance of "Black" Feminist Diasporas
8. Women and Tfu in Wimbum Community, Cameroon
9. Contesting the Notions of "Thugs and Welfare Queens": Combating Black Derision and Death
10. Emasculation, Social Humiliation, and Psychological Castration in Irene’s More than Dancing
Biography
Professor Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Dr Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Babcock University in Nigeria.
