Globalization and Socio-Cultural Processes in Contemporary Africa [electronic resource] /
Sahle, Eunice N.author.
Sahle, Eunice Njeri,editor.
In different but complementary ways, the chapters in this collection provide a deeper understanding of socio-cultural processes in various parts of the African continent. They do so in the context of contemporary mediated processes of globalization, and emphasize the agency of Africans.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Part I Sociocultural Processes; 2 Globalization, Cybersexuality Among Ghanaian Youth, and Moral Panic; 3 "Marriage is the Solution": Born-Again Christianity, American Global Health Policy, and the Ugandan Effort to Prevent HIV/AIDS; 4 Globalization and New Christian Geographies in Africa: A Cautionary Optimism amidst Growing Afropessimism; 5 Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Senegal: Between the Local and the Global; 6 Language Policies in East Africa; Part II Cultural Production
7 Globalization and African Cinema: Distribution and Reception in the Anglophone Region8 African Cultural Producers and Border Thinking: Dennis Brutus, Micere Mugo, Ousmane Sembène, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o; 9 Missionaries for Capital: Brand Marketers and MusicSponsorship in Uganda; 10 Soul to Soul: Hip Hop, Globalization, and Africa; List of Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
In different but complementary ways, the chapters in this collection provide a deeper understanding of socio-cultural processes in various parts of the African continent. They do so in the context of contemporary mediated processes of globalization, and emphasize the agency of Africans.
Ethnology-Africa.
Sociology.
Africa-Politics and government.
Globalization.
Ethnology.
Area studies.
African Culture.
Sociology, general.
African Politics.
Globalization.
Cultural Anthropology.
Area Studies.