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This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.

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Introduction. Genderings; O.Oyewumi Decolonizing the Intellectual and the Quotidian: Yoruba Scholars (hip) and Male Dominance; O.Oyewumi Gender in Translation: Efunsetan Aniwura; A.Adeeko Ode to Patriarchy: The Fine Line Between Praise and Criticism in a Popular Senegalese Poem; M.Gueye Women and Leadership in Nigerian Islam: The Experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adeoye of Osogbo; D.O.Ogungbile Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante women and the Politics of Urban Space; E.Amoo-Adare Outsiders Within: Experiences of Kenyan Women in Higher Education; N.M.Kamau, Self-image and Self-naming: A Social Analysis of Women´s Microenterprises in Senegal and Mali; M.S.Lo Irua Ria Atumia and Anti-colonial struggles among the Gikuyu of Kenya: A Counternarrative on ´Female Genital Mutilation´; W.N.Njambi NAKABUMBA: God Creates Humanity as a Potter Creates a Pot; C.Saidi Beyond Gendercentric Models: Restoring Motherhood to Yoruba Discourses of Art and Aesthetics; O.Oyewumi

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OYERONKE OYEWUMI Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, USA. She was born in Nigeria and educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of California at Berkeley, Oyewumi has been widely recognized for her work. The monograph Invention won the 1998 Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association and was a finalist for the Herskovitts Prize of the African Studies Association in the same year. She has garnered a number of research fellowships, including Rockefeller Fellowships, a Presidential fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. Oyewumi´s most recent research support was a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship on Human Security (2003/2004), managed by National Council for Research on Women. (NCRW).

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