Africa History and Culture
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 188
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 188
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Africa History and Culture explores rich perspectives on Afrocentric paradigms, gender and the land question, women’s leadership in Africa, traditional belief systems, and practices and peace and conflict resolution, with case studies from The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Cameroun and Nigeria, Zimbabwe and South Africa. The book provides refreshing scholarly voices with new insights from the African continent.
Biography of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introducing the Chapters
Chapter 1 Introduction
Grasian Mkodzongi and Mariama Khan
Chapter 2 Wealth Creation, Poverty, and Social Welfare in Malawi, 1940s–1980
Gift Wasambo Kayira
Chapter 3 Women’s Associations and Social Development in Bathurst 1925-1965
Hassoum Ceesay
Chapter 4 African Women’s Leadership: A Case Study on The Gambia
Mariama Khan
Chapter 5 Cameroon–Nigeria Border Conflict over the Bakassi Peninsula and United Nations’ Intervention
Primus Fonkeng
Chapter 6 Land Reform, Spirituality, and Women Empowerment in Zimbabwe
Rejoice Mazvirevesa Chipuriro
Chapter 7 Culture, Land Rights, and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa——A Gendered Perspective
Kezia Batisai
Chapter 8 Deconstructing the Housing Policy Crisis in Africa: Sierra Leone’s Failed Experimentation with Market-Driven Housing
Steven Nabieu Rogers
Chapter 9 Zimbabwe’s Land Reform as Alternative Social Policy and Decoloniality in Action
Tom Tom
Chapter 10 The Reincarnation of Colonial Imaginaries in Nollywood Films
Mariama Khan
Chapter 11 Advancing the Need for Decolonized African Knowledge: A Case Study on Senegambia Knowledge Systems
Mariama Khan and Grasian Mkodzongi
Mariama Khan is an adjunct lecturer at the Africana Studies Department. She has taught courses on African Civilizations, Women in African Society and West African Cinema and Cultural History. She was a visiting African scholar at Pomona College, Claremont, CA. She is also a documentary filmmaker and a poet. Her published books include The Gambia- Senegal Border, Issues in Regional Integration (Routledge, 2019) and Politics in The Gambia and Guinea- Bissau, Precolonial Influence on the Postcolonial State (Routledge, 2022). Her research interests include culture, language, gender, politics, religion, transportation, security and criminal justice.