Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora

Akinloyè Òjó is an associate professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the African Studies Institute (ASI) of the University of Georgia. Ibigbolade Simon Aderibigbe, is Professor of Religion and African Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono received her PhD in Workforce Education from the University of Georgia

• Introduction: Perspectives on Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora1. Women as Sandwiches in the Jaws of Violence: A Study of the Impact of Crisis on the Female Gender in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Novels Augustine O. Evue 2. Violence against Women in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s trafficked: An African Feminist InsightCharles A. Bodunde and Foluke R. Aliyu-Ibrahim3. Narrating the Woes of Women in Wartime: The Examples of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Roses and Bullets and Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow SunEzinwanyi E. Adam & Chinenye M. Egboh4. Female Circumcision: Inexpressiveness and Loss in Julie Okoh’s EdewedeOludolapo Ojediran5. Gender and Dramaturgy in Wale Ogunyemi’s Queen Amina of Zazzau and Femi Osofisan’s Women of OwuOjo Olusegun Olorunleke6. Socio-Cultural Perception of Sexist Yoruba Proverbs and Implications for Peace and National CohesionAdeniyi Kikelomo, Jegede Francis, and Adebanjo Mopelola 7. Asunle cannot be a man: A Gendered Analysis of Yoruba Praise Names in Yorubaland and the DiasporaAkinloye Ojo8. Gender Equality, Gender Inequality or Gender Complementarity: Insights from Igbo Traditional culture Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob 9. Gender and Contesting Phenomena (Religion, Culture, and Ethnicity): Towards Development in Africa and the African DiasporaOyeronke Olademo10. Gender Equality: A Comparative Narrative in African Religious Christian and Islamic Traditions Adepeju Johson-Bashua11. Gender Equality Narratives in African Cultural and Religious Beliefs: Contents and Discontents Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe12. Islamic law of Inheritance: Ultimate Solution to Social inequality against Women in Yoruba land Abdulmajeed Hassan Bello13. Not on this Mat: A Biographical Sketch of Marriage, Labor, Sex and Gender Relations in an African History Ebenezer Ayesu 14. Culture and Development: Indigenous Structures, Gender, and Everyday Life in Colonial Coastal Southern Ghana Kwaku Nti15. The Challenge of Gender: Marginal Participation of Women in Mathematics in Nigeria Ayo. S. Obale-Hundoyin 16. Rural Women Farmers and Food Production in Ekiti-Kwara, Nigeria: Motives and Challenges of Operation Raphael Abiodun Olawepo17. Female Achievement in Geography and Planning in Lagos State University, Nigeria Mohammad Olaitan Lawal18. Women and Sport in Kenya Janet Musimbi M’mbaha and Felisters Jepchirchir Kiprono