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Book | Leiden University catalogue |
Title: | Political culture, cultural universals, and the crisis of identity in Africa: essays in ethnoglobalization |
Author: | M'Bayo, Richard Tamba |
Year: | 2011 |
Pages: | 423 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Lewiston, NY |
Publisher: | Edwin Mellen Press |
ISBN: | 0773413901; 9780773413900 |
Geographic terms: | Africa Kenya Nigeria |
Subjects: | communication mass media media and communication studies images values identity women |
Abstract: | The common thread of this book is the struggle between cultural universality and traditionalism. Part 1, cultural universals and ethnoglobalization, has chapters on ethnoglobalization (Ritchard Tamba M'Bayo), Frantz Fanon (William W. Hansen), Afrocentricity and communication theory (Kehbuma Langmia), the demystification of local heroes as villains and war criminals (Sierra Leone and Liberia) (Ritchard Tamba M'Bayo, Sunday Ikhimeakhu Dika), Nigerian English (C. Ailende Ativie), 2007 elections in Nigeria (Solomon O. Akinboye), media theory (Ritchard Tamba M'Bayo, Chuka Onwumechili), development communication (Victor Ayedun-Aluma). Part 2, Media images, African identities and consciousness, deals with Western media and ideology (Osam Edim Temple), aesthetics of femininity (Herbert E. Batta), Emil Torday (Mario Fenyo), identity politics in Nigeria (I.S. Popoola). Part 3, Communication and cultural transformations, looks at information dissemination (Olufemi Onabajo), language use of popular musicians in Kenya (Benson Oduor Ojwang'), telephone use in Nigeria (Chuka Onwumechili, Tianna Sousa-Johnson). Part 4, Family, gender, culture and sexuality, examines 'pulaaku' (sense of modesty) among sedentary and nomadic Fulani in Nigeria (Abdullahi S. Bashir), unwanted motherhood in Kenya (Christine Oduor-Ombaka), cultural violence against women, treatment of Kuteb widows in Nigeria (Ibrahim Musa Ahmadu), female circumcision (Eserinune M.V. Mojaye), male condom negotiation among low income women in Nakuru, Kenya (Hannah Mweru Mugambi), portrayals of women in the Nigerian media (Ifeoma Amobi). [ASC Leiden abstract] |