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Journal articles on the topic "Nigerian Women authors"
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Dim, Eugene Emeka. "Ethnoregional Dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in Nigeria." Trauma, Violence, & Abuse 21, no. 5 (October 5, 2018): 870–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1524838018801335.
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a reality the average Nigerian woman has to grapple with everyday. Ethnicity and place of residence play a pivotal role in the social realities of Nigerian women, especially with their experience of IPV. However, there is a paucity of reviews examining the impact of ethnicity and place of residence on women’s experiences of IPV in Nigeria. This study seeks to explore the ethnoregional dynamics of IPV from the range of studies undertaken on the subject matter. Eighteen studies meant the inclusion criteria for analysis. The major criteria for selecting studies for analysis were peer-reviewed studies on IPV against women and studies on a Nigerian population, regardless of the nationality of the authors. Databases like the University of Saskatchewan Library, ProQuest, Sociological Abstracts, and Journal Storage ( JSTOR) were used in searching for peer-reviewed studies. The study revealed that Igbo women tend to experience IPV more than Yoruba and Hausa women. The study also found that rural women tend to experience IPV more than urban women. The study points out some of the services available for female victims of IPV and the possible strategies that can be adapted to reach them effectively.
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Efe, Chinedu Justin, and Oghenerioborue Esther Eberechi. "Property Rights of Nigerian Women at Divorce: A Case for a Redistribution Order." Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal 23 (March 17, 2020): 1–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2020/v23i0a5306.
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In Nigeria, marriage is hardly conceived as a partnership of equals in relation to the property rights of spouses during marriage and at divorce. This is because the Nigerian courts do not redistribute property at divorce. This leaves the financially weaker spouse (usually the wife) at an economically disadvantaged position. This article therefore compares the position of the matrimonial laws in England with that of Nigeria, whether there are provisions for the redistribution of property between the spouses at divorce. The comparative analysis reveals that family laws in England empower the family court to redistribute property amongst spouses at divorce. On the contrary, the matrimonial property laws in Nigeria provide for the settlement of property at divorce. The analysis also reveals that the courts in Nigeria adopt the strict property rights approach in ordering the settlement of property, which is detrimental to the wife. The article also makes a case for a redistribution through the economic analysis of the worth of a housewife. The authors therefore argue that the Nigerian courts should depart from this approach and borrow from the English courts. The authors recommend the amendment of the matrimonial property laws to fill this gap. That would enable the Nigerian courts to make a redistribution order, so as to vary the recognised property rights of spouses in order to provide compensation for any reasonable loss caused by marriage and ensure that the financial benefits of marriage are shared on a just and equitable basis.
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Makinde, Olusesan Ayodeji, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe, Abimbola Onigbanjo-Williams, Kolawole Azeez Oyediran, and Clifford Obby Odimegwu. "Rejection of the Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill in Nigeria." Gender in Management: An International Journal 32, no. 3 (May 2, 2017): 234–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-02-2017-0023.
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Purpose Achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls is the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). This continues the effort of the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG), which was “to promote gender equality and empower all women”. In Nigeria, a Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill had been under consideration in the Nigerian Senate since 2010 to be enacted as a Nigerian law as part of effort toward MDG 3. After six years, the Bill was voted out for “lack of merit”. The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of the outcome. Design/methodology/approach A review of this Bill and the authors’ perceptions of reasons for the decline are subsequently presented. Findings There were concerns based on the content of the Bill. It was agreed by members of the Nigerian Senate that the content of the Bill was not in line with the religious and cultural beliefs of most of the Nigerian population and thus, unworthy to be enacted as a Nigerian law. Social implications The review herein provides important analysis of the content of the declined Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill. It reflects the continued patriarchal norms and perception of the superiority of men over women in Nigeria. Originality/value The paper provides a bird-view analysis of an unsuccessful Gender and Equal Opportunities Bill in Nigeria. This information is needed for a review of the Bill ahead of possible re-presentation following modifications for discussion.
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Pucherova, Dobrota. "Afropolitan narratives and empathy: Migrant identities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference." Human Affairs 28, no. 4 (October 25, 2018): 406–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2018-0033.
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Abstract The article analyzes two novels of migration by Nigerian women authors in the context of Afropolitanism: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) and Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference (2013). It is argued that Afropolitanism obscures the reasons why migration from Africa to the West has been increasing in the decades since independence, rather than decreasing. In comparing the two novels, the article focuses on empathy towards and solidarity between fellow Nigerians, which has been seen by Nigerian philosopher Chielozona Eze as crucial for building African civil society and functional state.
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Ratia, Emma, and Catrien Notermans. "“I was crying, I did not come back with anything”: Women’s Experiences of Deportation from Europe to Nigeria." African Diaspora 5, no. 2 (2012): 143–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725457-12341235.
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Abstract The aim of this article is to study the impact of deportation on women’s lives, via the narrated experiences of Nigerian women deported from the European Union. It focuses on women’s stories about the period prior to their travel to Europe and their motivations for doing so; on stories about the journey and their experiences as migrants; and finally on stories about their deportation and their life after returning home to Nigeria. By taking this three-step approach and by focusing on deportees’ experiences, the authors want to contribute to an emic understanding of deportation in which gender and kinship play a crucial part. The obligation to migrate is a social as well as an economic duty for women in the Nigerian context. Whereas anthropological studies have so far focused on deportees’ feelings of non-belonging, this article shows that women’s experiences of deportation are highly connected to family belonging.
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Bello, Ibukunoluwa B., Ebernezer O. Akinnawo, and Bede C. Akpunne. "Women Abuse Screening Tool: A Validation Study on Nigerian Pregnant Women." International Journal of Scientific Research and Management 8, no. 06 (June 9, 2020): 398–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsrm/v8i06.sh02.
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Domestic violence is identified across the globe as a menace as it poses a threat to the mental health of its victims, the significant others of the victim and the security of a nation at large. In some cases, the victim of domestic violence is a pregnant woman and harm is caused not only to a woman but her fetus also and this calls for urgent psychological assessment and intervention. Although there is no doubt that psychological tests are effective in the assessment of domestic violence, using the psychometric properties obtained from a different population may produce generate inaccurate findings. This paper therefore attempts the validation study of Women Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) using a sample of 379 pregnant women attending antenatal clinic at the State Specialist Hospital, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. The study derived a Cronbach’s Alpha Reliability of 0.758, p <.05 and a Guttman split-half coefficient of 0.683, p <.05. Furthermore, concurrent validity of Women Abuse Screening Tool (WAST) and Ongoing Abuse Screen (OAS) was established as 0.29, p<.05. The norms of the instrument were given as 2.38 for tolerable level of domestic violence and 5.79 for severe and pathological level of domestic violence. Authors conclude that Women Abuse Screening Tool has acceptable psychometric properties to justify its usage for the assessment of level of domestic violence among pregnant women in Nigeria and other nations with similar socio-cultural backgrounds.
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Kashif, Alia, Hafsah Zafar, and Qasim Shafiq. "A Comparative Feminist Study of Subalterns in Adichie's Americanah and Darzink's Song of a Captive Bird." Qlantic Journal of Social Sciences 5, no. 1 (March 30, 2024): 210–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.55737/qjss.650779312.
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The present study explores the issues of oppression and gender identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah and Jasmin Darznik's Song of a Captive Bird. This study examines Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's subaltern theory that views how women suffer from oppression and gender identity in a patriarchal society. The postcolonial feminist research method is employed in the study to analyze how the two female authors present the struggle of women living in patriarchal cultures. From different views, this study uses close textual analysis to examine the narratives of Ifemelu and Farrokhzad and their respective struggle with societal expectations about gender roles. The findings of the study indicate that both authors address the issue of oppression and gender identity through their respective narratives. The authors' works show how gender norms and expectations limit women's opportunities and agency in Nigerian and Iranian societies. This study also highlights how patriarchal culture contributes to the anguish of Nigerian and Iranian women, creating additional barriers to their empowerment and fulfilment. This study concludes that the works of both female writers provide valuable insights into the struggle of women living in patriarchal societies and call for a re-examination of gender roles and societal expectations to promote gender equality and empowerment.
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Christian Nnaji, Ikechukwu, and Chike Benedict Okoye. "Women, Marriage and Betrayal of Trust in Selected Nigerian Dramas." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 11, no. 6 (June 17, 2024): 8201–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v11i06.05.
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The paper explores ‘Women, Marriage, and Betrayal of Trust in Selected texts’ namely Wole Soyinka’s The Beatification of Area Boy, Femi Osofisan’s The Midnight Blackout and Toni Duruaku’s Cash Price’. It also explores the contemporary problems besieging women and their spouses. This provides a discursive analysis of dangers of betrayal of trust by both partners which also destroy the marital bliss of democratic marriage institution in Nigeria. The research methodology leans on internet, books, journals on relevant scholars and literary authors relating to similar issues raised by the playwrights to support the paper. It is the works of the same authorities on various topics related to the concerns of these four playwrights that shall be used to strengthen my observations and findings in this paper. Psychological and historical criticisms are deployed to unravel the issues raised in these creative works as reflected in the society. The findings lean on social greed, impatience, lust for mundane things also the relevance of informing the society on the plethora of stigma of divorces looming visibly on infidelity or abnormality. These necessitate prospects and challenges of marriage institution in 21st century and the need of reforming these anomalous cultural trends problematical in Nigerian society.
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Anato, Sylvain, Augustin Aïnamon, and Célestin Gbaguidi. "The Emergence of Female Identity in Sefi Atta’s Everything Good Will Come." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 10, no. 7 (July 9, 2023): 94–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.107.15038.
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Everything Good Will Come (2006) is the debut novel by the Yoruba author Sefi Atta. She investigates the different transformation that occur in the life of Enitan, the female protagonist of the novel, while she makes her tedious journey from the beginning of adolescence to adulthood. For a long time, women have almost played secondary roles in the Nigerian novel in the struggle to address socio-political and economic challenges. However, since the beginning of the 2000s, Nigerian fiction has presented women in leadership roles in their societies. In fact, a new generation of authors has emerged. Atta has become a famous and internationally acclaimed writer of this series in her quest to demonstrate how the identity of a woman can originate from various hostile factors that affect her environment. She suggests that this can only happen if and only women are self-affirming, become fully aware of unlocking their tremendous inner potential which is essential to reverse the trend of a fiction plot dominated by men. Indeed, Everything Good Will Come is a counter-speech to the almost pitiful image of the woman in works mainly masculine.
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Thompson, Katrina Daly. "Educating Muslim Women." American Journal of Islam and Society 31, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 104–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v31i1.1023.
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Educating Muslim Women is a unique study of Muslim women told throughthe story of Nana Asma’u, a nineteenth-century Fulani woman from NorthernNigeria who became a renowned scholar and greatly impacted Muslim womenin Nigeria and beyond. Drawing on history, literary analysis, and ethnography,the volume’s slimness belies a wealth of material that will interest historians,applied linguists, and even sociologists of contemporary Muslim communities.The book’s main argument is that Muslim women have played a greaterrole in their communities than has previously been understood by historians.While using Nana Asma’u as an example, Boyd and Mack argue that she wasnot unique and offer painstaking details to show that her society supportedand encouraged female Islamic scholarship. In addition, they relate how contemporarywomen continue to follow her example. The book is organizedroughly chronologically, although the chapter titles suggest a thematic organizationthat is not always adhered to.The introduction offers some background on Sufism, which in later chaptersthe authors narrow down to the Qadiriyyah order. They define Sufism as“the prayerful pursuit of knowledge aiming to move an individual closer toGod” (p. 15). Their focus on knowledge allows them to emphasize Islamicscholarship and education: “Education, like Islam itself, was integral to allparts of daily life” (p. 21). Nineteenth-century schools are depicted as placeswhere pupils learned Qur’anic recitation and received religious blessings, aswell as practiced farming, obtained medical treatment, and sought personaladvice. By depicting education as central to Islam and Islam as central toNorthern Nigerian society, their subsequent account of how involved women ...
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Nigerian Women authors"
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Pape, Marion. "Frauen schreiben Krieg." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Philosophische Fakultät III, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15584.
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Kein anderes Thema hat die nigerianische Literatur so dominiert wie der nigerianische Bürgerkrieg, in dessen Verarbeitung sich verstärkt auch Autorinnen einmischen. Die Dissertation evaluiert 34 Texte von 16 nigerianischen Autorinnen - 12 Romane und 22 Kurzgeschichten - und analysiert sie als Gesamtkorpus, in dem die Texte miteinander und mit der Männerliteratur einen Dialog um den Bürgerkrieg führen. Die Autorinnen wenden bei ihrem "war talk" literarische Strategien wie "re-reading" und "re-writing" an, das Neu-Lesen, Fort- und Umschreiben der Texte und Diskurse des "Zentrums", durch die nicht nur die Blindstellen eines von Männern dominierten literarischen Diskurses sichtbar werden, sondern durch die auch der Prozess des Aushandelns der Geschlechterverhältnisse sowie des Krieges selbst erfolgt, seiner Ursachen, Auslöser und Folgen. Die Autorinnen stellen den Krieg als "sexuelle Unordnung" dar, als Geschlechterkrieg. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass bei der Verortung der Perspektive der Autorinnen neben Geschlecht, ethnischer Zugehörigkeit auch andere Faktoren, wie Alter, Race, Grad der Distanz oder Nähe etc. berücksichtigt werden müssen, um vorschnelle Festschreibungen zu vermeiden. Hierbei spielen die Paratexte eine wichtige Rolle, in denen die Autorinnen sich persönlich zum Krieg äußern. Die Arbeit bewegt sich an den Schnittstellen mehrerer Disziplinen: Literatur, Historiographie und Geschlechterstudien. In der Einleitung werden die theoretischen Prämissen im Kontext von Krieg, Geschlecht und literarischer Repäsentation behandelt. Das 1. Kapitel ist dem historischen Kontext des Bürgerkrieges, einschließlich der Rolle der Frauen darin gewidmet. Im 2. Kapitel geht es um die Darstellung des Krieges, des Selbst- und Feindbildes sowie der Zukunft. Das dritte Kapitel handelt von der Beziehung zwischen Bürger- und Geschlechterkrieg, vermittelt durch das Medium literarischer Text. Die Zusammenfassung der Ergebnisse und der Ausblick auf zukünftige Forschung erfolgt im Schlussteil. Der Anhang enthält ein vorläufiges Verzeichnis der gesamten Frauenliteratur über den nigerianischen Bürgerkrieg.No other topic has dominated the Nigerian literature as much as the Nigerian Civil War and female authors increasingly interfere in its literary representation. The thesis evaluates 34 literary texts by 16 female Nigerian authors - 12 novels and 22 short stories - and analyses them as distinctive corpus whose individual texts are in a state of dialogue both with each other and with texts from male authors. The female authors use, in their "war talk", literary strategies like "re-reading" and "re-writing" of texts from the "Centre". On the one hand, these strategies enable them to make the blind spots of a male dominated literary discourse apparent/visible on the other hand, they facilitate the negotiation of gender relations and of the war itself, its causes, trigger points and consequences. The female authors represent war as "sexual disorder", as gender war. The study shows that in order to be able to locate an author''s perspective (and to avoid rash conclusions) it is essential to consider the different factors determining it - besides ethnicity and gender, also age, race, the grade of emotional involvement or distance etc. It is in this regard, where the paratexts play an important part, as in these authors express their personal views and comments on the war. The thesis is located at the interfaces of several disciplines: literary, historical and gender studies. The introduction deals with the theoretical backgrounds in the context of war, literary representation and gender. The first chapter is dedicated to the historical context of the Nigerian Civil War including the role of women. The second chapter looks at the paratexts, different representations of the war''s causes, the self-image, the enemy''s image and the future. The third chapter finally deals with the question how the relationship between Civil War and gender war is negotiated/conveyed through the medium of the literary texts. In the conclusion the results are summarized and prospects for future research are discussed. The appendix contains a preliminary bibliography of all literary texts on the Nigerian Civil War written by female authors.
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Sawyerr, Oluwatosin E. "The representation of women's experiences in Eastern Nigeria as porayed in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's trilogy." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/290.
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Toyin, Adewale-Gabriel, ed. Short stories by 16 Nigerian women. Berkeley, Calif: Ishmael Reed Pub., 2005.
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Etim-Effiong, Toyosi. Now you know me better: A non-fiction story collection. Lagos, Nigeria: Femperial Publishers, 2020.
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Orie, Chibueze Prince. Who is a woman being?: 21st century Nigerian female debut novels. Enugu, Nigeria: Samdrew Productions, 2011.
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Tobrise, Mabel. Nigerian feminist theatre: Essays on female axes in contemporary Nigerian drama. Ibadan, Nigeria: Sam Bookman Publishers for Humanities Research Centre, 1998.
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Evwierhoma, Mabel. Nigerian feminist theatre: Essays on female axes in contemporary Nigerian drama. Lagos: Wits, 2014.
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Ogunyemi, Chikwenye Okonjo. Africa wo/man palava: The Nigerian novel by women. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
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Onyioha-Orji, Ngozi. The knots of Karma. Umuahia, Nigeria: Hamba Nigeria Enterprises, 2008.
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Samy, Yiagadeesen, Adeniran Adedeji, Augustine Iraoya, Madhurjya Kumar Dutta, Jasmine Lal Fakmawii, and Wen Hao. "Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Survey Results for SMEs Across Six Developing Countries." In Trade and Women’s Economic Empowerment, 21–57. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39039-5_2.
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AbstractIn this chapter, the authors present and discuss the survey data on trade and women’s economic empowerment that was collected for this project in 2021–2022 from 610 SMEs across the six developing countries selected for the study, namely Cambodia, Ghana, Madagascar, Nigeria, Senegal and Vietnam. The chapter includes basic contextual country-level information about trade, development and gender equality in the selected countries. The discussion of the survey results includes a comparison with secondary data from World Bank Enterprise Surveys. The authors find that SMEs face various challenges that are often context-specific and recommend that policy options be tailored to address these differences. Women-owned SMEs across the six country cases face varying levels of both gender-related and more general constraints. Among the recommendations in this chapter is the need for more gender-disaggregated data to understand the difference between women-owned exporting and non-exporting SMEs.
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Olawoye-Mann, Salewa. "Alajo Shomolu." In Community Economies in the Global South, 67–86. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198865629.003.0004.
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Nigerians have always had their own cooperative banking systems known as Esusu and Ajo. This chapter draws on Gibson-Graham’s community economy theory, while working in Nigerian literature, to contextualize an ancient money cooperative called Ajo, which is a locally used term to explain the system that informally mobilizes savings and lends monies to help everyday Nigerians meet their livelihood needs. The author carried out 120 interviews by telephone and focus groups with Nigerian women in Ondo and Lagos states who use Ajo as an alternative bank to mitigate against the exclusion they encounter in commercial banks. The findings show that Ajo is rooted in trust and community, so that women can develop social supports and banking access to buy foodstuff and clothes, and to invest in their businesses and houses. In urban and rural areas, Nigerian women are adopting Ajo because joining the collective provides a sense of ownership, as well as a comradery with other women.
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Morikawa-Zhou, Mika. "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie." In Women Community Leaders and Their Impact as Global Changemakers, 115–19. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-2490-2.ch020.
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In this chapter, the author tells some significant moments of the story of a notable Nigerian author and speaker, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, whose work inspires her as effectively communicating cultural complexity to enact change. Her first encounter with Adichie's work was her TED talk, “The Danger of a Single Story,” which beautifully acknowledges the power of cultural complexity through the lens of storytelling. Her journey and background as a Nigerian woman educated in America are interwoven throughout the talk, as well as her publications. Adichie explores the human experience and expression of culture, recognizing the importance of acknowledging intersectionality. She talks about being Nigerian, a feminist, an international student in the U.S., a person who grew up under repressive governments, an author, and more. She articulates the layering of these identities through storytelling.
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Ravinthiran, Vidyan. "Conclusion." In Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose, 232–57. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198852155.003.0010.
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Abstract The book’s conclusion is also a new chapter: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah provides a means of revisiting and theorizing the innovations of the other writers. Adichie’s novel provides a digital poetics of migrancy: Ifemelu, moving between Nigeria and the United States, expresses her hybridized and unmoored sensibility in the spontaneous prose of her blog, which allows her to utter herself at once, without mediation. Adichie’s novel predicts such cycles of exposure and outrage as characterize today the dopamine-inducing loops of social media. Although it hasn’t previously been realized, Ifemelu’s spontaneous outbursts return us to evangelical Christianity, since she’s shaped by her mother’s search for communal security through a series of Nigerian congregations. The author draws on Cheng Pheah’s notion of the world as not the globe, but a temporally undecided zone of possibility—a Nigerian woman experiences moments of relation that, enabled by the instantaneousness of digital messaging, have serious consequences.
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Oyebanji, Kemi, and Sisa Ngabaza. "Young Women Survivors Speak About Structural Violence and Vulnerabilities to Human Trafficking." In Fighting for Empowerment in an Age of Violence, 37–54. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4964-6.ch003.
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Human trafficking is a global issue that most countries have battled to control. It is exploitative, abusive, and violates human rights. Generally, it is seen as modern-day slavery. Despite several measures by different countries to combat trafficking, it continues to spread. Although men, women, and children are all vulnerable to trafficking, women and girls are more trafficked due to gendered intersectional factors that place them in vulnerable conditions. This chapter draws on academic work that explored a group of young women's lived experiences of trafficking at a border town in Nigeria. Using a feminist lens and working within a qualitative framework, in-depth interviews were conducted with young women who survived human trafficking. A qualitative thematic analysis was employed for data analysis. The authors draw on these young women's voices to explore how gendered intersectional factors create and perpetuate vulnerability to trafficking. The chapter also argues for the necessity to empower women as a protective measure against trafficking and for social justice.
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Amoo, Emmanuel O., Mofoluwake P. Ajayi, Faith O. Olanrewaju, Tomike Olawande, and Adebanke Olawole-Isaac. "Child Swaddling or Back Wrapping During Street Trading." In Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts, 254–76. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0329-4.ch012.
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The study is premised on social responsibility and social epidemiological theories and examined the exposure of back-wrapped babies to health risk during street trading. Data were collected using structured face-to-face interviews and snowballing techniques among 228 Street trading women (with children aged ≤ 11 months), in one local government area of Ogun State, Nigeria. Data analyses involved univariate and multivariate methods. The results show that 58.3% of women interviewed wrapped their babies at their back while trading on the streets, ≥80% were not aware of any campaign against baby back-wrapping, 35% viewed baby back-wrapping as medicinal for the baby, and as traditional practice (59.2%). The multivariate analysis revealed that children wrapped while trading on the street are at higher risk of exposure to illness than those not back wrapped (OR=1.778, p=0.042). The authors suggested media campaign against back-wrapping baby while trading on the street to reduce exposure to diseases, mortalities and possibly achievement of sustainable development goal (SDG-3).
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Amoo, Emmanuel O., Mofoluwake P. Ajayi, Faith O. Olanrewaju, Tomike Olawande, and Adebanke Olawole-Isaac. "Child Swaddling or Back Wrapping During Street Trading." In Research Anthology on Measuring and Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, 403–21. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3885-5.ch021.
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The study is premised on social responsibility and social epidemiological theories and examined the exposure of back-wrapped babies to health risk during street trading. Data were collected using structured face-to-face interviews and snowballing techniques among 228 Street trading women (with children aged ≤ 11 months), in one local government area of Ogun State, Nigeria. Data analyses involved univariate and multivariate methods. The results show that 58.3% of women interviewed wrapped their babies at their back while trading on the streets, ≥80% were not aware of any campaign against baby back-wrapping, 35% viewed baby back-wrapping as medicinal for the baby, and as traditional practice (59.2%). The multivariate analysis revealed that children wrapped while trading on the street are at higher risk of exposure to illness than those not back wrapped (OR=1.778, p=0.042). The authors suggested media campaign against back-wrapping baby while trading on the street to reduce exposure to diseases, mortalities and possibly achievement of sustainable development goal (SDG-3).
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Afkhami, Mahnaz. "Women’s Learning Partnership." In The Other Side of Silence, 223–36. University of North Carolina PressChapel Hill, NC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469669991.003.0019.
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Abstract After leaving SIGI, the author wanted to build an inclusive grassroots-focused civic space for women’s voices. Emphasis on human rights based on an individual’s humanity rather than her identity related to racial, gender, religion, nationality, or any other category became the entry point for its theoretical context and strategic work. The author and five extraordinary women, Marian Wright Edelman (USA), Jacqueline Pitanguy (Brazil), Zenebeworke Tadesse (Ethiopia), Khadija Haq (Pakistan), and Hafsat Abiola (Nigeria), were the first board for a new, more inclusive, grassroots-focused international women’s organization – Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP). Together, they established WLP’s parameters to: partner with community-based women’s rights organizations rather than individuals; select these organizations from around the world on the basis of their capability to think locally, act locally as well as regionally or globally, and communicate what was learned together to a wide constituency; make no theoretical assumptions but base their knowledge on actual experience, moving from experience to theory rather than the reverse; be a learning organization based on dialogue; and most important, “walk the talk” – practice participatory leadership and deeply respect the views, outlook, challenges, and constraints of their partners in communicating and mobilizing a diverse cross section of women in their societies.
Conference papers on the topic "Nigerian Women authors"
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Oladipo, Adenike, Esther Oladele, and David Oke. "Perceived Influence of Emerging Technologies on Lifelong Learning and Resilience among Women Who Dare Open Distance Learning." In Tenth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Commonwealth of Learning, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.8949.
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In this study, the authors investigated the influence of emerging technologies on lifelong learning and resilience among women who dare Open and Distance Learning in a dual mode tertiary institution in the South-West geo-political zone of Nigeria. The sample consisted of 431 female learners from the three available departments; Management Sciences, Social Sciences and Science Education. Both secondary and primary data were collected; the latter was collected using a questionnaire on Google Forms. The data were analysed descriptively and using the ordinary least squares regression with robust estimates of standard error. This latter method helps to overcome the possible econometric problems of serial correlation and heteroscedasticity in the model. Preliminary data shows that women enrolments over a period of ten years have consistently increased. Also, most learners were aware of the emerging technologies except technologies such as edublog.com, Edmodo, Weebly and Wiki spaces. The regression result shows that emerging technologies influenced lifelong learning and resilience of the women. Meanwhile, emerging technologies that influenced lifelong learning and resilience were google classroom and Facebook only, while google drive posed a negative influence. Thus, more robust technologies, special female facilities and newly emerging technology job oriented fields should be introduced.
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N. Agu, Monica, Stephen Nabareseh, and Christian Nedu Osakwe. "Investigating Web Based Marketing in the Context of Micro and Small-Scale Enterprises (MSEs): A Decision Tree Classification Technique." In InSITE 2015: Informing Science + IT Education Conferences: USA. Informing Science Institute, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/2201.
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This paper presents the findings of an exploratory study of web based marketing (WBM) usage predictor variables in the context of micro and small-scale enterprises (MSEs). By means of a cross-sectional field study, a structured questionnaire was used to elicit responses from 267 enterprises situated in the South East Region of Nigeria. The main rationale for this study is to provide a vivid description of pertinent variables that are most likely to influence an enterprise’s consideration of the relevance and/or implementation of WBM. Against this backdrop, the authors used the decision tree classification technique of data mining to build a predictive model. One of the interesting findings in this study seems to show that service-oriented enterprises that have a social media presence and are equally headed by highly educated women have a higher proclivity of engaging in WBM. By and large, our findings provide an understanding of idiosyncratic factors that impact on WBM non (usage) by enterprises. Lastly, our findings have implications for practitioners and policy makers in developing countries, particularly that of Nigeria.