Wim van Binsbergen is Professor of Intercultural Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre. His research interests include religion in Africa, intercultural philosophy, African and Ancient history, Afrocentricity, ethnicity, and globalization. He has pursued these interests in Tunisia, Zambia, Guinea Bissau, and Botswana, besides historical projects on South Central Africa and the Ancient Near East.Rijk van Dijk is an Anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre working on the modern dynamics of religion and globalization in Africa, with a particular interest in Pentecostalism and transnationalism in Ghana, Botswana and Malawi.

• ContentsMaps viiPhotographs viiPART I: INTRODUCTION1 Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture 3Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk & Jan-Bart GewaldPART II: GLOBALITY THROUGH APPROPRIATION: ANALYSES AT THECONTINENTAL LEVEL2 Global and local trends in media ownership and control: Implications for cultural creativity in Africa 57Francis B. Nyamnjoh3 Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia 90Jan-Bart Gewald4 Can ICT belong in Africa, or is ICT owned by the North Atlantic region? 107Wim van Binsbergen5 ‘Man will live well’: On the poetics of corruption in a global age 147Sanya OshaPART III: GLOBALITY THROUGH WORLD RELIGIONS6 ‘Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia’: Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain 163Rijk van Dijk7 Global connections, local ruptures: The case of Islam in Senegal 190Roy Dilley8 How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth and women’s value in an Islamic town of Niger 220Adeline MasquelierPART IV: GLOBALITY AND AFRICAN HISTORIC RELIGIONS9 The social life of secrets 257Ferdinand de Jong10 The persistence of female initiation rites: Reflexivity and resilience of women in Zambia 277Thera RasingList of authors 311

"On the whole, the book seems to have everything within the list of subjects it treats." – Mokethi B.G. Mothlhabi, in: Religion & Theology, 2004

Wim van Binsbergen is Professor of Intercultural Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre. His research interests include religion in Africa, intercultural philosophy, African and Ancient history, Afrocentricity, ethnicity, and globalization. He has pursued these interests in Tunisia, Zambia, Guinea Bissau, and Botswana, besides historical projects on South Central Africa and the Ancient Near East.Rijk van Dijk is an Anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre working on the modern dynamics of religion and globalization in Africa, with a particular interest in Pentecostalism and transnationalism in Ghana, Botswana and Malawi.

• ContentsMaps viiPhotographs viiPART I: INTRODUCTION1 Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture 3Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk & Jan-Bart GewaldPART II: GLOBALITY THROUGH APPROPRIATION: ANALYSES AT THECONTINENTAL LEVEL2 Global and local trends in media ownership and control: Implications for cultural creativity in Africa 57Francis B. Nyamnjoh3 Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia 90Jan-Bart Gewald4 Can ICT belong in Africa, or is ICT owned by the North Atlantic region? 107Wim van Binsbergen5 ‘Man will live well’: On the poetics of corruption in a global age 147Sanya OshaPART III: GLOBALITY THROUGH WORLD RELIGIONS6 ‘Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia’: Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain 163Rijk van Dijk7 Global connections, local ruptures: The case of Islam in Senegal 190Roy Dilley8 How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth and women’s value in an Islamic town of Niger 220Adeline MasquelierPART IV: GLOBALITY AND AFRICAN HISTORIC RELIGIONS9 The social life of secrets 257Ferdinand de Jong10 The persistence of female initiation rites: Reflexivity and resilience of women in Zambia 277Thera RasingList of authors 311

"On the whole, the book seems to have everything within the list of subjects it treats." – Mokethi B.G. Mothlhabi, in: Religion & Theology, 2004

Wim van Binsbergen is Professor of Intercultural Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre. His research interests include religion in Africa, intercultural philosophy, African and Ancient history, Afrocentricity, ethnicity, and globalization. He has pursued these interests in Tunisia, Zambia, Guinea Bissau, and Botswana, besides historical projects on South Central Africa and the Ancient Near East.Rijk van Dijk is an Anthropologist and Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre working on the modern dynamics of religion and globalization in Africa, with a particular interest in Pentecostalism and transnationalism in Ghana, Botswana and Malawi.

• ContentsMaps viiPhotographs viiPART I: INTRODUCTION1 Situating globality: African agency in the appropriation of global culture 3Wim van Binsbergen, Rijk van Dijk & Jan-Bart GewaldPART II: GLOBALITY THROUGH APPROPRIATION: ANALYSES AT THECONTINENTAL LEVEL2 Global and local trends in media ownership and control: Implications for cultural creativity in Africa 57Francis B. Nyamnjoh3 Global media and violence in Africa: The case of Somalia 90Jan-Bart Gewald4 Can ICT belong in Africa, or is ICT owned by the North Atlantic region? 107Wim van Binsbergen5 ‘Man will live well’: On the poetics of corruption in a global age 147Sanya OshaPART III: GLOBALITY THROUGH WORLD RELIGIONS6 ‘Beyond the rivers of Ethiopia’: Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain 163Rijk van Dijk7 Global connections, local ruptures: The case of Islam in Senegal 190Roy Dilley8 How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth and women’s value in an Islamic town of Niger 220Adeline MasquelierPART IV: GLOBALITY AND AFRICAN HISTORIC RELIGIONS9 The social life of secrets 257Ferdinand de Jong10 The persistence of female initiation rites: Reflexivity and resilience of women in Zambia 277Thera RasingList of authors 311

"On the whole, the book seems to have everything within the list of subjects it treats." – Mokethi B.G. Mothlhabi, in: Religion & Theology, 2004