8 New Issues in JENdA: A Journal of Culture & African Women Studies

We published 8 new issues in the academic, peer-reviewed, award-winning and subscription-based JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. Some of the editorials are free to read. JENdA is available to individuals and institutions. To read these issues, please inquire about subscription. Don't forget to place a request with your librarian.

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Issue 21: Papa Edgard and His Mambos: Inside African Spirituality Practices of Vodou in America (2012) is guest-edited by Azuka Nzegwu. The issue is dedicated to Papa Edgard Jean-Louis, a houngan who worked tirelessly as a medium for the Lwa. In an interview format, we spoke with the famed New Orleans mambo, Sallie Ann Glassman, and other notable mambos including Saumya Arya Hass (also a Hindu Pujarin), Patricia Scheu, Susan Kwosek, and Vodou priestess Felice Guimont. The format of the issue gives us a deeper understanding of Vodou, the practices, and the worldview of practitioners in ways that assist us to sift facts from fictions. Each interview is in-depth and close to 50 minutes. A special thanks goes to Christopher Porché West, a photographer and mixed media artist from New Orleans, Tagbo Mazeli, a recording artist from Onitsha, Nigeria, and Leah Gordon, a photographer from the United Kingdom. The editorial is free to read.
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/issue/view/138

Issue 22: Transnational Feminisms and Women in the African Diaspora (2013) is guest-edited by Jennifer Shoaff. The issue was borne out of the 3rd Annual Recovering Black Women's Voices and Lives Symposium. It explores Afro-Cuban hip-hop feminist, 19th century Havana and Cuban women, Amanda Smith's colonial crossing, Arab American women poets, plus a poem about the city of Jos in Nigeria, and a book review on Leila Aboulela's Lyrics Alley.
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/issue/view/157

“Issues of Our Time” A Travesty of Justice: Recovering Nafissatou Diallo (2013) is a long-waited and highly anticipated, huge second "Issues of Our Time" on Nafissatou Diallo rape case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF). It has 82 contributions including 3D animations, essays, commentaries, poetry, videos, court documents, historical documents and so much more. The issue includes a landmark essay by Nkiru Nzegwu, the editor of JENdA, on the sexual violence against black women from slavery to present time, immigration, rape, African women immigrants, language, representation, transnationalism, New York rape shield law, and culture. "Issues of Our Time" continues the tradition of a being a serious, in-depth analysis of pressing issues of national or international concern by scholars, activists, and intellectuals. Both the editorial and the leading article are free to read.
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/issue/view/126
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/issue/view/126/showToc

Issue 23: Motherhood Studies in Africana Studies (2013) is guest-edited by Brillian Besi Muhonja. The issue looks at the personal experiences and accounts of scholars about their mothers, facets of motherhood, and the ways in which their mothers dealt with motherhood, and how their identity was shaped by it.
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/issue/view/158

Issue 24: This untitled issue (2014) focuses on Trokosi slavery in Ghana, sex trafficking and human rights implication in Nigeria, gender-based violence in Kenya, small scale business in Nigeria, Garifuna community and Ereba production, skin color and affirmative action among African-American women.
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/issue/view/159

Issue 25: Gender and Education (2014) is guest-edited by Jane F. A. Rarieya. The issue looks at gender inequalities in education, as well as the goal of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) with regard to girls education. This issue is very timely and add to the growing research on education in JENdA journal.
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/issue/view/160

Issue 26: In Movement: Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (2015) is guest-edited by Henriette Gunkel, Zethu Matebeni and Catherine Raissiguier. This special issue explores the different forms of activism, grass roots interventions, and social movements that African women on the continent and the Diaspora have been agents of social change for political and cultural transformations.
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/issue/view/171

Issue 27: Land Rights, Religion, Culture and Music (2015) features articles on orientalizing the Algerian culture and Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy, St. Janet’s sex and the performing female, Ethiopian high priestess Abebech Wuletu, land rights and polygamous relationships in Rwanda, women and access in Ethiopia, social justice in fictions, and literacy and identity in postcolonial Zimbawe and Sudan looking at Nervous Conditions and Lyrics Alley.
http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda/issue/view/172

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Azuka Nzegwu, PhD

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