Lexington Books
Pages: 232
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-3317-1 • Hardback • November 2016 • $103.00 • (£79.00)
978-1-4985-3318-8 • eBook • November 2016 • $97.50 • (£75.00)
Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe is associate professor of religion and African studies at the University of Georgia.
Rotimi Williams Omotoye is professor of church history at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria.
Lydia Bosede Akande is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religions at the University of Ilorin in Nigeria.
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.
— Reading Religion
Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe and his team of multidisciplinary scholars have in this book addressed the angsts and hopes of Africans on globalization. It is a timely publication that not only draws our attention to but also intellectually interprets the socio-political and religious issues of our time. Contextualizing Africans and Globalization: Expressions in Sociopolitical and Religious Contents and Discontents is a welcome addition to the growing discourse on the impact of globalization on Africans.
— Tanure Ojaide, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
This timely, academic, diverse, and deeply researched collection of articles presents a synthesis of opinions on its subject matters through the eagle eyes and critical engagements of scholars with clear understanding of the history of globalization, engaging the issues as its concerns Africa and its diaspora in the present and projecting into the future of Africans in the face of globalization. The authors contributed to the ongoing conversations on contents and discontents of globalization especially for a continent like Africa. It further evaluates the dynamics of globalization and how this impugns African social, political, as well as religious realities. The evidences are deep and the analysis as presented here posits a clear understanding of the gains and values of globalization as well as the challenges it brings to Africans.
— Oye Laguda, Lagos State University
The collections offer a stimulating and persuasive analysis of the African world view within the context of the various issues discussed in the book. The volume deliberately and 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. The authors brought their scholarship to bear by opening up new vista in the acquisition of fresh knowledge and ideas about of African continent and the Diaspora in relation with contemporary global happenings. The writings are well exquisite, precise and encapsulated and written in a language that is fluid and comprehensible to both experts and non-experts in the field.
— Harrison Adéníyì, Lagos State University