Gendering / Oyèrókẹ́ Oyěwùmí -- Decolonizing the intellectual and the quotidian : Yorùbá scholars(hip) and male dominance / Oyèrókẹ́ Oyěwùmí -- Gender in translation : Ẹfúnṣetán Aníwúrà / Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́ -- Ode to patriarchy : the fine line between praise and criticism in a popular Senegalese poem / Marame Gueye -- Woman and leadership in Nigerian Islam : the experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adéoyè of Òṣogbo / David O. Ogungbile -- Engendering critical spatial literacy : migrant Asante women and the politics of urban space / Epifania Amoo-Adare -- Outsiders within : experiences of women academics in Kenya / Njoki M. Kamau -- Self-image and self-naming : a discursive and social analysis of women's microenterprises in Senegal and Mali / Marieme S. Lo -- Iru Ria Atumia and anticolonial struggles among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya : a counternarrative on "female genital mutilation" / Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi -- Nakabumba : God creates humanity as a potter creates a pot / Christine Saidi -- Beyond gendercentric models : restoring motherhood to Yorùbá discourses of art and aesthetics / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Summary
This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa