Contextualizing Africans and Globalization: Expressions in Sociopolitical and Religious Contents and Discontents

by Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe (Editor), Rotimi Williams Omotoye (Editor), Lydia Bosede Akande (Editor), Olatunji Abdulganiy Olatunji Abdulganiy (Contribution by), Raji Abdulateef Raji Abdulateef (Contribution by)

Overview

This book consciously interrogates the varieties of opinions with regards to the socio-political and religious dynamics of Africans in the African continent as well as in the diaspora in the context of globalization. It highlights the significance and the consequences of globalization on these areas with regards to the African world views. Through the multi and interdisciplinary discourse in this volume, the diversity of opinions necessary for grappling with the complexity and plurality of global dynamics on various African ways of life are captured. These should give credence to the conviction that answers to questions about globalization of Africa in the past, the present, and projected future can only be provided by Africans and Africanists with the interest of Africa as the sole motivation of content and discontent debates. This volume contributes to such efforts in searching for viable answers to the challenges of globalization in Africa.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498533188
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	11/21/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Aderibigbe Ibigbolade Simon, Omotoye Williams Rotimi and Akande Lydia Bosede
Chapter One: Globalization and Entrepreneurial Development in Nigeria: The Challenges and the Opportunities, Olatunji Abdulganiy, Yinusa Muhammed A., and Raji Abdulateef
Chapter 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 Julius
Chapter Four: The Dynamics of Revenue and Relations: Contents and Discontents in Historic African Diaspora Experiences in Ghana, NtiKwaku
Chapter 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 Simon
Chapter Seven: The Dynamics and Challenges of Social Networks on the Moral and Religious Development of Nigerian Youth, AdesinaJulius
Chapter Eight: The Role of Religion, Ethics, Proverbs, and Poetry in Shaping Lives in Africa: The Journey So Far, Dopamu Abiola Theresa
Chapter Nine: African Traditional Medicine and Globalization: The Nigerian Experience, Shishima Sarwuan Daniel
Chapter Ten: The Use of African Traditional Medicine, Western Medicine, and Christian Faith Healing in Yorùbáland, Southwestern, Nigeria, Omotoye Williams Rotimi
Chapter Eleven:The Practice of African Religion, Islam, and Christianity in a Globalized Nigerian Society: Points of Cordiality, Akande Lydia Bosede
Chapter Twelve: Interrogating the Islamic Approach to Family and Societal Problems in Contemporary Nigeria, Hassan-Bello Bolade
Chapter Thirteen: Domestic Violence in the Contemporary Muslim Community of Ilorin, Nigeria: The Islamic Perspective, Hussain-Abubakar Sherifat
Chapter Fourteen: Biblical and Judicial Laws: The Search for Marital and Societal Stability in Nigeria, Opadere Olaolu S. and Akande Lydia Bosede

Editorial Reviews

This timely, academic, diverse, and deeply researched collection of articles presents a synthesis of opinions on its subject matters through the eagle eyes and critical engagements of scholars with clear understanding of the history of globalization, engaging the issues as its concerns Africa and its diaspora in the present and projecting into the future of Africans in the face of globalization. The authors contributed to the ongoing conversations on contents and discontents of globalization especially for a continent like Africa. It further evaluates the dynamics of globalization and how this impugns African social, political, as well as religious realities. The evidences are deep and the analysis as presented here posits a clear understanding of the gains and values of globalization as well as the challenges it brings to Africans.

Oye Laguda

Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and his team of multidisciplinary scholars have in this book addressed the angsts and hopes of Africans on globalization. It is a timely publication that not only draws our attention to but also intellectually interprets the socio-political and religious issues of our time. Contextualizing Africans and Globalization: Expressions in Sociopolitical and Religious Contents and Discontents is a welcome addition to the growing discourse on the impact of globalization on Africans.

Tanure Ojaide

The collections offer a stimulating and persuasive analysis of the African world view within the context of the various issues discussed in the book. The volume deliberately and consciously interrogates the varieties of opinions with regards to the socio-political and religious dynamics of Africans in the African continent as well as in the Diaspora in the context of globalization. The authors brought their scholarship to bear by opening up new vista in the acquisition of fresh knowledge and ideas about of African continent and the Diaspora in relation with contemporary global happenings. The writings are well exquisite, precise and encapsulated and written in a language that is fluid and comprehensible to both experts and non-experts in the field.

Harrison Adéníyì

.. .. [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.

Reading Religion

The collections offer a stimulating and persuasive analysis of the African world view within the context of the various issues discussed in the book. The volume deliberately and consciously interrogates the varieties of opinions with regards to the socio-political and religious dynamics of Africans in the African continent as well as in the Diaspora in the context of globalization. The authors brought their scholarship to bear by opening up new vista in the acquisition of fresh knowledge and ideas about of African continent and the Diaspora in relation with contemporary global happenings. The writings are well exquisite, precise and encapsulated and written in a language that is fluid and comprehensible to both experts and non-experts in the field.

Harrison Adéníyì

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