Globalization and socio-cultural processes in contemporary Africa
By: edited by Eunice N. Sahle
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781137552211
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Globalization; Civilization
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: Socio-cultural processes; title: Globalization, cybersexuality among Ghanaian youth, and moral panic  -- Wisdom Tettey; title: "Marriage is the solution": born-again Christianity, American global health policy, and the Ugandan effort to prevent HIV/AIDS  -- Lydia Boyd; title: Globalization and new Christian geographies in Africa: a cautionary optimism amidst growing Afropessimism  -- Joseph Mensah; title: Contemporary Islamic discourses in Senegal: between the local and the global  -- Mamarame Seck; title: Language policies in East Africa  -- Esther Lizanza -- Part II: Cultural production; title: Globalization and African cinema: distribution and reception in the Anglophone region  -- Martin Mhando; title: African cultural producers and border thinking: Dennis Brutus, Micere Mugo, Sembene Ousmane and Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo  -- Kari Dahlgren; title: Missionaries for capital: brand marketers and music sponsorship in Uganda  -- David Pier; title: Soul to soul: hip hop, globalization, and Africa -- Perry Hall.