This book is a bold and illuminating discussion on forms of identities in Africa. Gender, religion, and ethno-cultural affiliations are often a part of African identities. The strength of the book is in coverage of themes; the variety of interesting, well-researched, and well-analyzed topics, written by experts and experienced African scholars. The editors did an excellent job in structuring the book to make it readable, especially for undergraduate and graduate students of global identities and the African diaspora.

Julius O. Adekunle, Monmouth University

In Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa, Toyin Falola and Emmanuel Mbah have assembled an impressive team of scholars from multiple disciplines who present new and challenging perspectives on gender, religion, and ethno-cultural identities in Africa. The volume is a most timely and significant contribution to the study of the problematics of identities in African economic, political, and social manifestations in our contemporary world.

Wanjala S. Nasong'o, Rhodes College

Approaching the topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume elaborate on diverse aspects of socially constructed, intersectional identities in contemporary Africa. Individual chapters show how those identities interact with everyday life on the local level and how they impact a wide range of national and global experiences in Africa and abroad. There’s something here for everyone interested in gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identities in Africa.

Steven J. Salm, Xavier University of Louisiana

Emmanuel Mbah and Toyin Falola's, Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa: Gender, Religion, and Ethno-cultural Identities, expertly delves into nearly all forms of identities among Africans and successfully demonstrates how those identities are constructed, negotiated, and emanated as lived experience among the African people. Consisting of thirteen well-crafted chapters by some of the leading authorities on the subject telling us about how Africans in Africa, and their descendants living outside Africa identify and define themselves, this book is an exciting addition to the growing body of scholarship on identity politics in Africa, in particular, and, the world, as whole.

Meshack Owino, Cleveland State University

Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa expertly delves into nearly all forms of identities among Africans and successfully demonstrates how those identities are constructed, negotiated, and emanated as lived experiences among African people. Consisting of thirteen well-crafted chapters by some of the leading authorities, this book is an exciting addition to the growing body of scholarship on identity politics in Africa, in particular, and, the world, as a whole.

Meshack Owino, Cleveland State University