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Digital Expressions of Gender in Africa
This book investigates the ways in which gender is performed in Africa's digital spaces.
Social media and digital platforms provide young Africans with spaces to performatively resist gender conformance and assert bodies in transitions. These spaces allow gender identities to be fluidly made, unmade, and remade. Drawing on case studies from across North, East, West, Central and Southern Africa, this book investigates the ways in which social media-enabled cultural products resist heteronormativity and project varying masculinities, femininities, and personalities which negate birth sex. These identities, in turn, open up possibilities for transgender individuals, non-binary persons, and empowered women to performatively resist the systemic constructions of gender. Four particular themes are explored in depth: representations of women in cultural texts, call-out culture and resistance of cyberbullying, contested masculinities, and antinormative gender enactments.
The book's inclusive exploration of gendered paradigms of digital expressions in Africa will be of interest to researchers across gender studies, sociology, performing arts, literary studies, linguists, cultural studies and media studies.
Book Details
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publish Date: Dec 8th, 2025
- Pages: 264
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9781041024026
- Categories: • Cultural & Ethnic Studies - African Studies• Gender Studies• Media Studies
About the Author
Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cultural Studies, University of Graz.
Praise for this book
"This transdisciplinary volume presents a thought-provoking discussion of gender in Africa that promises to newly inform, perhaps even transform, the reader's understanding of both concepts. An informative introduction and nuanced analyses offer new insights, with no easy takes, on the complex role of gender in contemporary digital spaces."
-- Brian Valente-Quinn, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Boulder, US.
"Resonant discourses; embodied in crucial gender debates that are transformative. The double bind, yet the excitement that Digital Expressions of Gender in Africa generates extends and deepens our understanding of netizens, agency, sexualities, performativity and heteronormativity. Where social media encounters gender debates or vice versa is of profound significance today."
-- Pepetual Mforbe Chiangong, Assistant Professor, Hmt Rostock/Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
"Amaefula's edited collection is essential and pioneering. It spans the digital realm and African continent from various vantage points. It unpacks the ways in which user engagement in digital space, interrogates, negotiates and reinvents established gender norms, reinterprets traditions/folklore, and creates new gender identities in the African context and beyond."
-- Monique Charles, Assistant Professor, Chapman University, US.