Dr. Christabel Aba Sam and Dr. Christine Vogt-William on Masculine Representations in Ghanaian Afrobeats and Literature

Abstract

Abstract: Dr. Christabel Aba Sam is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and currently a Cluster fellow at the University of Bayreuth. In this episode of the Cluster Conversation, she talks with her host Dr. Christine Vogt-William (Director of the Cluster of Excellence’s Gender and Diversity Office) about her work on images of masculinities in Ghanaian Afrobeats and how they reveal certain social politics of contemporary Ghanaian society.

People & roles

Guest(s): Aba Sam, Christabel; Vogt-William, Christine

Origins & context

Title: Dr. Christabel Aba Sam and Dr. Christine Vogt-William on Masculine Representations in Ghanaian Afrobeats and Literature
Language: English
Podcast series: Cluster Conversations
Date: December 20, 2024

Rights & access

Extent: 59 minutes, 56 seconds

Identifiers & sources

has URL: https://www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/1_4-Public-engagement_-engagement1/Podcasts/ClusterConversations/Episode-28/index.html

Further details

Episode number: 28

Full text

Speaker 1: Cluster Conversations, a podcast by Africa Multiple. Speaker 1: Okay, well then welcome to the latest episode of the Cluster Conversations. I am Christine Folk Williams, the director of the Gender and Diversity Office, and I'm very, very pleased to welcome my visiting fellow Doctor Christabel Aba Sam from University of Cape Coast, Ghana. And she's been here with us at the cluster in Bayreuth since the twenty second of October and will be accompanying our efforts at reconfiguring until roundabout the tenth of January, twenty twenty five. Yeah, so Christabel, do please sort of give us an idea of who you are as a scholar and as a citizen, as a subject, how you came to African studies and yeah, a little bit about your interest in the cluster itself. Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you very much. And thank you for the modest introduction. I am Christabel like you've already intimated and I am a member of the Department of English, University of Cape Coast back in Ghana. Currently I am a senior lecturer and I am particularly interested in literary studies, literary representations. My master's degree focused on literary representations of women in African women's writings and coming onto the PhD program, I thought that I could shift still within the area of gender, but this time trying to focus on men and how men are also presented in novels. It is popular saying in the African context that the man is typically hegemonic. And so I thought that it would be interesting to see whether there are variant of the African man as depicted in the context of the African novel. And interestingly, I came on to look at how such presentations or such mutations of African masculinities can be read as a possible intimation of African future so that going forward, we can think about progressive masculinities within the African context. Coming to the African Multiple Cluster, a senior colleague of mine, I don't know if it's okay to mention his name, Professor Grant, who has been… Read the full text about 7,492 words