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This book interrogates how identities are politicized, transformed, and mobilized throughout the African continent to demonstrate alternatives for nation building. It examines ways of transforming identity and provides concrete options where institutions and technology mobilize for education and empowerment around issues of African identities.
List of contents
Introduction
Céline A. Jacquemin and Toyin Falola
Part I: Interrogating the Trends, Ethics, and Political, Economic, & Cultural Elements of Identity
Chapter 1: Politics of Being and its Contemporary Implications in Africa: Positive or Negative Trends?
Olanrewaju Atanda Orija
Chapter 2: 'Ubuntu' Dialogic Ethics: Towards a Liberal Theory of Virtue and Transformation of Identities in Africa
Jude Chinwuba Asike and Patricia Ogugua Anwuluorah
Chapter 3: Interrogating Identity Politics in Nigeria
Soj Ojo
Chapter 4: Monetary Sovereignty, Sovereign Identities, Monetary Identities in Ghana and Nigeria in the Late 1950's to Early 1960's
Bamidélé Aly
Chapter 5: Music as a Tool for Sustainable Development in Nigerian Society
Maureen Ada Uche
Part II: Identity and Ethnic Conflict, Transformation, Reconciliation, and Empowerment
Chapter 6: Ethnicity, Peacebuilding, and Conflict Transformation in Nigeria: The Case of Herder-Farmer Conflict
Kialee Nyiayaana
Chapter 7: How Rwanda Transformed Identity Post-Genocide
Céline A. Jacquemin
Chapter 8: African Bureaucracies and the Implementation of Women Empowerment Programs
Abidemi Abiola Isola, Tolulope Adeogun, and Victor Adesiyan
Part III: Internet and Social Media Foster Identity Change, Exploration, and Mobilization
Chapter 9: Building Global Citizenship through the African Digital Public Humanities: The MaCleKi Collaborative
Meshack Owino and J. Mark Souther
Chapter 10: Mobilizing Student Interest in African Identity: An Academic Project for the Real World
Bradford Whitener
Chapter 11: Institutional Change & Identity: Impact of the Arab Spring & Mobilization in North Africa
Auroara Nikkels
Chapter 12: Tracking Political and Religious Mobilization Against Queer Men in Senegal
Grayson Michael Posey
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Edited by Toyin Falola and Céline A. Jacquemin - Contributions by Victor Adesiyan; Bamidélé Aly; Patricia Ogugua Anwuluorah; Jude Chinwuba Asike; Abidemi Abiola Isola; Auroara Nikkels; Kialee Nyiayaana; Soj Ojo; Olanrewaju Atanda Orija; Meshack Owino; Gra
