Contextualizing Africans and Globalization: Expressions in Sociopolitical and Religious Contents and Discontents

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This book 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. It highlights the significance and the consequences of globalization on these areas with regards to the African world views. Through the multi and interdisciplinary discourse in this volume, the diversity of opinions necessary for grappling with the complexity and plurality of global dynamics on various African ways of life are captured. These should give credence to the conviction that answers to questions about globalization of Africa in the past, the present, and projected future can only be provided by Africans and Africanists with the interest of Africa as the sole motivation of content and discontent debates. This volume contributes to such efforts in searching for viable answers to the challenges of globalization in Africa.

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. . . . [this] volume fulfils a gap in providing a critique of globalization from Africas 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 Adny, Lagos State University

Author Bio

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.