Contextualizing Africans and Globalization

Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe is associate professor of religion and African studies at the University of Georgia.Rotimi Williams Omotoye is professor of church history at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria.Lydia Bosede Akande is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religions at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria.

• Introduction, Aderibigbe Ibigbolade Simon, Omotoye Williams Rotimi and Akande Lydia BosedeChapter One: Globalization and Entrepreneurial Development in Nigeria: The Challenges and the Opportunities, Olatunji Abdulganiy, Yinusa Muhammed A., and Raji AbdulateefChapter Two: Globalization, Family System, and Challenges of Socio-Political Stability in Africa, Yusuf Noah, Aliyu Taofeek K. and Issah Moshood Chapter Three: The African Returnees from Brazil and the Politics of Post-Slavery Migration, Ajayi Tayo JuliusChapter Four: The Dynamics of Revenue and Relations: Contents and Discontents in Historic African Diaspora Experiences in Ghana, NtiKwakuChapter Five: The Nemesis of Individualistic Ontology of Globalization to the Practice of Liberal Democracy in the Post-Colonial Africa, Chimakonam Jonathan Okeke and Agbo Joseph Nnaemeka Chapter Six: The Seventh Century African Slaves and Descendants Identity Empowerment through Religious Rituals: The Americas Experience, Aderibigbe Ibigbolade SimonChapter Seven: The Dynamics and Challenges of Social Networks on the Moral and Religious Development of Nigerian Youth, AdesinaJuliusChapter Eight: The Role of Religion, Ethics, Proverbs, and Poetry in Shaping Lives in Africa: The Journey So Far, Dopamu Abiola TheresaChapter Nine: African Traditional Medicine and Globalization: The Nigerian Experience, Shishima Sarwuan DanielChapter Ten: The Use of African Traditional Medicine, Western Medicine, and Christian Faith Healing in Yorùbáland, Southwestern, Nigeria, Omotoye Williams RotimiChapter Eleven:The Practice of African Religion, Islam, and Christianity in a Globalized Nigerian Society: Points of Cordiality, Akande Lydia BosedeChapter Twelve: Interrogating the Islamic Approach to Family and Societal Problems in Contemporary Nigeria, Hassan-Bello BoladeChapter Thirteen: Domestic Violence in the Contemporary Muslim Community of Ilorin, Nigeria: The Islamic Perspective, Hussain-Abubakar SherifatChapter Fourteen: Biblical and Judicial Laws: The Search for Marital and Societal Stability in Nigeria, Opadere Olaolu S. and Akande Lydia Bosede

. . . . [this] volume fulfils a gap in providing a critique of globalization from Africa’s grassroots experience; at least, it is one of the few available books written by Africans about Africa from their own experience and academic understanding.