Description: This book considers some of the substance and dissatisfaction of globalization on Africa. It illustrates globalization as a complex set of processes that involve shifting influence from local societies and countries in some areas while simultaneously endowing local societies a...
Brief description: Akinloyè Òjó is Professor of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies and Director of the African Studies Institute at University of Georgia, USA. His publications include In Flight: A Collection of Poems (2000), Africans and Globalization: Linguistic, Literary, and Technological Contents and Discontents (2017), Gender Equality and Human Development in Africa (2018), and Language, Society, and Empowerment in Africa and Its Diaspora (2022).
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"This is a feast of ideas on how Africans are living with, domesticating, and expanding the frontiers of globalization. This work is a succinct exploration of the many roads Africans are taking to culturally translate their global experiences through the arts, language, literature, pedagogy, and technology. Written by men and women who are actually living the experience, it promises to be an excellent book to teach with on any topic dealing with culture and globalization in the global south." --Akin Ogundiran, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"This book is a welcome addition to the wide-ranging discourse on globalization in general, particularly on its effects, both positive and negative, on the African continent and Africans in the diaspora. Although much has been said about this topic from various viewpoints and angles, what sets the current volume apart is its focus on its impacts on African people and societies." --African Studies Quarterly