Africa After Gender?

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Index AAWORD. See Association of African Women for Research and Development ABANTU for Development, 304 Achebe, Chinua, 86–87, 205 activism, gender: Ghanaian, 131–135; representations v. actual, 6–7, 85–101; sexuality issues inclusion in, 5, 17–28, 159, 198, 200– 201; teaching and research links to, 137– 139. See also enactments, gender; gender work, Ghanaian activism, Ghanaian: GVSSN, 132, 133–134; NETRIGHT, 132, 133; NGO gender work and, 131–135; Sisters’ Keepers, 132, 133; violence coalition, 132, 134; Women’s Manifesto coalition, 132, 134–135 Adéjobí, Oyin, 108, 111–115, 119 Adoma, Florence, 260 Af¤liation Act (Kenya), 55 af¤rmative action: educational, 297; political, 11, 298 Africa Today, 206 African Gender Institute (AGI), 128, 143, 304 African gender studies: biological v. social identities in, 192–195; celebratory suppositions regarding, 7, 88, 93–95, 101n4; dialogues on ¤eld-based, 63–77; engagement with gender’s role in, 293–294; gender hierarchies ’ relation to, 18–19, 22, 286, 294–296; postcolonialist gender perception and, 48– 49, 57, 109, 153, 193–194, 205, 241–242; gender performance’s relation to, 6–7, 8, 9, 85–92, 89, 171–187, 191–201, 205–219, 220n10, 223–237; gendered power expressions and, 197–200, 201; global feminist theory’s relation to, 1–3, 7–8, 9, 11–12, 74– 77, 141–144, 171–187, 191–201, 286–287; information resources for, 304–305, 309– 311; language relevance in, 75–77, 295; motherhood’s relevance to, 253, 305; multicategory identity analysis within, 85, 96, 100, 195–197, 281, 289, 298; political equity and, 297–298; “post-gender” phase of, 3, 285–298; public sphere participation’s relation to, 85–101, 181–184; publishing issues regarding, 74–77; rebellion-based, 93–96; representation v. mobilization issues and, 30–45; sexuality addressed in, 2, 5, 17–28, 159, 194, 198, 200–201; sociopolitical landscape and, 292–293; theory-empirical work balance in, 143–144, 293, 306; transdisciplinary approach to, 3–4, 68, 108–109, 121. See also dialogue, gender study; feminism; institutions, feminist; knowledge dissemination ; performance, gender; “post-gender” concept; public sphere African National Congress (ANC), 32, 40 African Platform for Action. See Beijing (African ) Platform for Action African Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women (Ogunyemi), 290 African Women’s Development and Communications Network, 303 age: gender ideologies’ association to, 180, 181, 183–184, 187, 253–265; identity’s relation to, 10, 196–197, 253–265; jali women’s socialization and, 180; market women’s socialization and, 181, 183–184. See also elderhood Agence France-Presse, 99 AGI. See African Gender Institute Agonglo, King, 71 Agyeman-Rawlings, Nana Konadu, 130 Ahimbisibwe, Fortunate, 26 Aidoo, Ama Ata, 1, 9, 225, 304; Anowa by, 226– 229, 236; Changes by, 295; literary commentary and, 207; Our Sister Killjoy by, 228, 231, 235–237; “post” concept and, 287 AIDS. See HIV/AIDS Aina, Olabisi, 286 Akamba Stories (Mbiti), 285, 298 Akwa, D. E., 256–259 Akyeampong, Emmanuel, 259 Alamo, Christine Agnes, 24 “Algeria Unveiled” (Fanon), 224 Allan, Tuzyline Jita, 290 Allman, Jean, 200 Althusser, Louis, 175, 285 Amadiume, I¤, 50, 153; kinship and, 196– 197; motherhood paradigm and, 305; traditional gender roles theories by, 48–49, 109, 193, 205 ANC. See African National Congress Animaa, Felicia, 262 Anlu uprising (British Cameroons), 92 Anowa (Aidoo), 236; nationalistic cultural representations in, 227–229; theme of, 226, 227 Appiah, Anthony, 213, 276, 288 Ariko, Charles, 22, 24 The Ark Foundation, 132 Arnfred, Signe, 305 Arrow of God (Chinua Achebe), 205 Asante, E. K. O., 255, 260–261 Asante, Ckyeame Kwabena, 256 Asante Market Women (¤lm), 181–182 Asantewaa, Yaa, 254, 256 Associated Press, 99 Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD), 127 Association of Nigerian Railway Civil Servants , 247 Atta, John Yaw, 256–259, 264 Austin, J. L., 176–177 Bâ, Mariama, 87; Scarlet Song by, 9, 89, 213– 219; So Long a Letter by, 9, 89, 213–216, 219 Baganda society, 19, 295 Bahi, Aghi, 303 Bahima society, 19 Bakare-Yusuf, Bibi, 253, 305 Bakoku-Bakoru, Zoe, 21 Baltimore Sun, 99 Banyoro society, 19 BAOBAB for Women’s Human Rights, 154– 155, 165 Barber, Karin, 108; Generation of Plays by, 110–111, 118, 119; Kúyè translation by, 112–115; radical conservatism and, 113, 116, 120; Yorùbá Popular Theatre translations by, 109–121, 273–274 Barnes, Teresa, 198 Bartle, Phil, 260 Bathily, A. Abdoulaye, 128 BBC, 99 Beijing (African) Platform for Action, 130, 144, 151, 156–157, 162–163 Bell, Stanley, 56 Bemba society, 52...