Gender, Sexuality, and Mothering in Africa - Softcover

Toyin Falola is the Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor of History and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the recipient of numerous awards through the years including the 2008 Quintessence Award, the 2007 Distinguished Africana Award, the 2007 Amistad Award for Academic Excellence in Historical Scholarship on Africa and the African Diaspora, the 2007 SIRAS Award for Outstanding Contribution to African Studies, and the Africana Studies Distinguished Global Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award from Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Bessie House-Soremekun is the Public Scholar in African American Studies, Civic Engagement, and Entrepreneurship, Professor of Political Science, and Professor of Africana Studies at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. She is also the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Global Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development at IUPUI. She has published five books, numerous journal articles, and book chapters. Over the past fifteen years, she created other entrepreneurial centers, including the National Center for Entrepreneurship, Inc., the Center for the Study and Development of Minority Business at Kent State University, the Entrepreneurial Academy of the Cleveland Empowerment Zone, and the Youngstown Entrepreneurial Academy, in collaboration with a host of community partners.