Masculinities in Contemporary Africa

Authors

Egodi Uchendu (ed)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.57054/codesria.pub.145

Keywords:

MASCULINITIES, CONTEMPORARY AFRICA, Non-Africans, Maghreb

Synopsis

Edited by Egodi Uchendu

CODESRIA, 2008, 288 p., ISBN: 2-86978- 227-3

Although gender and non-gender scholars have studied men, such an academic exercise requires a critical and focused study of masculine subjects in particular social contexts, which is what this book attempts to do.

This empirically rich collection of essays, the seventh of the CODESRIA Gender Series, deals with critical examinations of various shades and ramifications of Africa’s masculinities and what these portend for the peoples of Africa and for gender relations in the continent. So much has changed in terms of notions and expressions of masculinities in Africa since ancient times, but many aspects of contemporary masculinities were fashioned during and since the colonial period. The papers in this volume were initially discussed at the 2005 month-long CODESRIA Gender Institute in Dakar.

The contributors are gender scholars drawn from various disciplines in the wide fields of the humanities and the social sciences with research interests in the critical study of men and masculinities in Africa.

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Author Biographies

Egodi Uchendu

teaches at the Department of History/International Studies,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, specializing in gender and women's history. She
has held a number of prestigious fellowships, most recently at the Centre of
African Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Dr Uchendu has published articles and chapters in various journals and edited
volumes. She is the author of Women and Conflict in the Nigerian Civil War (2007).

Kopano Ratele

is a Professor at the Institute of Social and Health Sciences
(ISHS) University of South Africa. He has a range of scholarly interests spanning
the areas of violence and fatal injury, critical psychology, sexuality, culture, men
and masculinities, and research methodology. Prior to ISHS, Ratele was a professor
in the Department of Psychology and in Women and Gender Studies, University
of Western Cape. Among others, he has edited or co-edited the books From
Boys to Men: Social Construction of Masculinities in Contemporary Society and Inter-group
Relations - South African Perspectives.

Egara Kabaji

is a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Communication at Western
University College of Science and Technology (WUCST), Kenya. His published
works include Women in Development (1997), Jomo Kenyatta (2002), A Guide to Francis
Imbuga's Aminata (2002) and The Strange Bird of Navuhi (2005). His research interests
include Gender and Masculinity Studies, and Cultural Discourses.

James Ogola Onyango

is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature,
Languages and Linguistics, Egerton University, Kenya. He holds a PhD in Applied
Linguistics from the University of Vienna. His research and publication areas
include Discourse-Historical Approach Theory, Discursive Masculinities and
Feminities, Language Policy and Kiswahili Studies.

Abdessamad Dialmy

est professeur en sociologie. Il est le directeur du
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Etudes sur la Santé et le Population (LIDESP)
à l’Université de Fez. Il est membre du conseil d’administration de Social Compass,
la Revue Internationale de la Sociologie de la Religion (Université de Louvain-
La Neuve/Sage Publications). Il est aussi membre de l’Association Mondiale de la Sexologie, et a servi comme consultant pour plusieurs organisations
internationales, notamment l’OMS, l’UNICEF, le Conseil sur la Population, USAID
et l’Union Européenne. Il a publié plusieurs oeuvres sur le genre, la sexualité, la
santé et l’Islam en Arabe, Français et Anglais

Svetlana Roubailo Koudolo

est enseignante/chercheur dans le département
d’Anthropologie de l’Université de Lomé. Elle a fait partie du personnel
scientifique de l’Institut de l’Anthropologie et de l’Ethnographie de l’Académie
des Sciences à Saint Petersburg en Russie de 1971 à 1979. Elle a aussi la directrice
de recherche au Centre de Formation Permanente pour l’Action et la Recherche
Pédagogique à Lomé au Togo de 1984 à 1999.

Claire Kelly

is the Research Co-ordinator for Intercultural and Diversity
Studies and a junior lecturer in Race, Class and Gender at the University of
Cape Town (UCT). She completed her Master’s degree in Diversity Studies at
UCT in 2005, with a focus on white masculinities in South Africa. Her other
research interests include organisational transformation, diversity and questions
of social justice. She is currently working on her PhD in Psychology, with a
focus on Identity and Social Transformation

Ibrahim Mouiche

est assistant professeur au département des Sciences Politiques
de l’Université de Yaoundé II au Cameroun. Il est actuellement chercheur au
CNWS, Ecole de Recherche des Etudes Asiatiques, Africaines et Latines
Américaines à l’Université Leyde en Hollande. La plupart de ses travaux sont sur
l’ethnicité, la démocratisation et les chefs traditionnels.

Wanjiku Chiuri

is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science at Egerton
University, Kenya. She is a researcher, consultant and scholar on Gender, Planning,
Community Development and Sustainable Development. She has published
widely on Gender Analysis and Poverty Studies.

Charity Mwangi-Chemnjor

teaches at Egerton University, Laikipia College
Campus, Kenya. She has an MA (Education) from Dalhousie University, Canada,
and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of South Africa. Her research
interests include Education Management, Policy Studies in Education and Gender
Studies.

Inês M. Raimundo

is a Lecturer, Researcher and Head of the Department of
Population Studies, Centre for Policies Analysis, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
Eduardo Mondlane University. He is also a PhD candidate at the University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Lilian Ndangam

 is an independent Researcher based in Toronto, Canada. This
article was submitted whilst she was Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Research
Fellow at the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South
Africa.

Raïssa Edwige Koutouma Nsona

est membre de Interdisciplinaire groupe de
recherche sur l’Afrique contemporaine (IGRAC) à la Faculté des Lettres et des
Sciences Humaines à l’université Marien Ngouabi

Zahia Benabdallah

est Détentrice d’un magister en Sociologie avec option :
« Sociologie du changement social ». Elle a travaillé en tant que Chercheur permanent
dans le Centre National de Recherche en Anthropologie Sociale et
Culturelle (CRASC). Elle est actuellement chercheur permanent au Centre National
de recherches en préhistoire et anthropologie historique (CNRPAH) à
Alger. Elle prépare un doctorat en anthropologie sur les enjeux de l’idéal corporel
dans le milieu estudiantin : « Approche genre », dans le cadre de l’école doctorale
organisée par le CRASC et l’université d’Oran en Algérie.

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