Contextualizing Africans and Globalization

Expressions in Sociopolitical and Religious Contents and Discontents

Contributions by Olatunji Abdulganiy, Raji Abdulateef, Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe, Julius Adesina, Joseph Nnaemeka Agbo, Tayo Julius Ajayi, Lydia Bosede Akande, Taofeek K. Aliyu, Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam, Abiola Theresa Dopamu, Abdulmajeed Bolade Hassan-Bello, Sherifat Hussain-Abubakar, Moshood Issah, Kwaku Nti, Rotimi Williams Omotoye, Olaolu S. Opadere, Sarwuan Daniel Shishima, Muhammed A. Yinusa, Noah Yusuf Edited by Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe, Rotimi Williams Omotoye, Lydia Bosede Akande

Publication date:

21 November 2016

Length of book:

232 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498533171

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.

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

. . . . [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.