Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025) | African Anthropologist

Published: 2025-12-29

Decolonizing cultural names: A driving force behind the choice of certain African wax-printed fabrics as uniforms for Igbo women’s groups in south-eastern Nigeria

Chika Chinyeogwa Chudi-Duru, PhD

1-83

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Akan cosmovision, knowledge, worldview and beliefs about livelihood resources: A case of two coastal communities in the Central Region, Ghana

Anokye, Francis Aning, PhD, Abane, Henrietta, PhD, Antwi, Kwabena Barima, PhD

84-114

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Troubling trousers: A study of socio-cultural perceptions surrounding women's trousers and bodily agency

Chukwuemeka Nwigwe, PhD

115-139

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Homophobia in Africa and the Culture of Secrecy

Dr. Alfred Babo, PhD

140-181

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Exploring the perception of teen mothers on re-dropping from secondary school: A case of Matai Open School at Kalambo District, Tanzania

Dr. Johnas Amon Buhori, PhD

182-208

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Perception of the national health insurance scheme among artisans in Ibadan, Nigeria

Jane Opeyemi, ADENIJI, MSc

209-228

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Kobie, kinship beyond borders: A socio-philosophical ideal for peaceful coexistence in Ogoni, Nigeria

Burabari Sunday Deezia, PhD

229-257

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Gelede Ketu revisited: Performance, gender, and the politics of identity in contemporary Yoruba culture

Damilola Waliyullahi Abimbola, Ezekiel Tanitolorun, Funmilayo Arinola Ade-ali, Sehedi Bamidele Suraju, Deborah Omolara Ilori

258-285

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Naming things in the sea and muddy bottoms of the mangroves: Indigenous taxonomy of marine resources among the Mijikenda of coastal Kenya

Khamati Shilabukha, PhD

286-322

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Correlational study of hand and auricular dimensions in an adult Igbo population in Imo State, Nigeria

Oghenefego Michael Adheke, Gabriel Sunday Oladipo, Ijeoma Confidence Chukwuebuka, Sandra Oghenetega Yegbeburu

323-345

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Substitution and social valuation: Exploring intersectional disability and identity in Zimbabwe’s cultural landscape

Robert Chirima, PhD

346–385

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Ritual aesthetics in Osun Osogbo Festival in southwest Nigeria

Emmanuel Ebere Uzoji, PhD, Abass Sodiq, MA

386–409

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Born with a different skin colour: Killings of persons with albinism among the Sukuma of Mwanza and limitations of Tanzanian Witchcraft Law, 1980-2015

Hamisi Mathias Machangu, PhD

410–435

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The beliefs associated with days: The case of Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday among the Dagbamba of Northern Ghana

Mohammed Osman Nindow, Mphil, Iddrisu Abdallah, Mphil, Issahaku Sulemana, Mphil

436–456

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Book review: Isabel Bredenbröker. Rest in Plastic Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community. New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2024, 322 pp. Hard back ISBN 978-1-80539-503-4

Martial Fanga Agbor, PhD

457–460

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Journal / African Anthropologist / Vol. 23 No. 1 (2025) / Articles

Articles

Decolonizing cultural names: A driving force behind the choice of certain African wax-printed fabrics as uniforms for Igbo women’s groups in south-eastern Nigeria

Akan cosmovision, knowledge, worldview and beliefs about livelihood resources: A case of two coastal communities in the Central Region, Ghana

Troubling trousers: A study of socio-cultural perceptions surrounding women's trousers and bodily agency

Homophobia in Africa and the Culture of Secrecy

Exploring the perception of teen mothers on re-dropping from secondary school: A case of Matai Open School at Kalambo District, Tanzania

Perception of the national health insurance scheme among artisans in Ibadan, Nigeria

Kobie, kinship beyond borders: A socio-philosophical ideal for peaceful coexistence in Ogoni, Nigeria

Gelede Ketu revisited: Performance, gender, and the politics of identity in contemporary Yoruba culture

Naming things in the sea and muddy bottoms of the mangroves: Indigenous taxonomy of marine resources among the Mijikenda of coastal Kenya

Correlational study of hand and auricular dimensions in an adult Igbo population in Imo State, Nigeria

Substitution and social valuation: Exploring intersectional disability and identity in Zimbabwe’s cultural landscape

Ritual aesthetics in Osun Osogbo Festival in southwest Nigeria

Born with a different skin colour: Killings of persons with albinism among the Sukuma of Mwanza and limitations of Tanzanian Witchcraft Law, 1980-2015

The beliefs associated with days: The case of Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday among the Dagbamba of Northern Ghana

Book reviews

Book review: Isabel Bredenbröker. Rest in Plastic Death, Time and Synthetic Materials in a Ghanaian Ewe Community. New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books. 2024, 322 pp. Hard back ISBN 978-1-80539-503-4

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