Overview
- Gender and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana offers detailed literary and linguistic interpretations of gender narratives
- Gender and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana chronicles gendered relations, power and leadership dynamics in Africa
- Gender and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana depicts themes of power, hegemonies, control and gender relations in Africa
Part of the book series: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora (GCSAD)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Literary Representations of Women and Power
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African Women and Socio-Linguistic Contexts
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African Women and Governance
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides balanced critical linguistic and literary representations of gender and power relations in Ghanaian and Nigerian texts, contrary to most existing literary and linguistic studies on gender that have either focused on male chauvinism or male emasculation. This text provides novel insight into gender dynamics, liberation and empowerment especially as it relates to language and power in Africa.
Reviews
“This work opens a vista for an in depth study of a social phenomenon—gender and leadership on the African continent—that has been previously explained using largely agreed language and ideas. The text presents ideas, arguments, insightful analysis, and some alternative ideas and brings some new and well- known works of literature and methods and presents a sound problematization. Gender and Leadership will allow the reader to review and rethink the phenomenon in question and add something interesting to common knowledge.”
—Morenikeji Asaaju, University of Birmingham
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Mobolanle Sotunsa is a professor of Gender Studies and African Oral Literature at Babcock University, Nigeria. Sotunsa is the coordinator of Gender and African Studies Group, Babcock University (BUGAS). She is also the Director of Babcock University Centre for Open, Distance, and e-learning (BUCODeL).
Abiola Sakirat Kalejaiye (PhD) is a lecturer at Babcock University, Ilisan Remo. She teaches language courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Kalejaiye is a member of Gender and African Studies Group, Babcock University (BUGAS). She is also the commissioned editor of Babcock University Centre for Open, Distance, and e-learning (BUCODeL).
Patricia Animah Nyamekye is a lecturer and a Head of Department in Arts and Social Studies at Valley View University, Ghana
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana
Editors: Mobolanle Sotunsa, Abiola Sakirat Kalejaiye, Patricia Animah Nyamekye
Series Title: Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38514-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38513-1Published: 28 October 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38516-2Due: 28 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38514-8Published: 27 October 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-3793
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3807
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 257
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: African Culture