GMOs, Consumerism and the Global Politic

Rethinking Food, Bodies and Identities in Africa�s 21st Century

Munyaradzi Mawere, Artwell Nhemachena, Munyaradzi Mawere, Artwell Nhemachena

• Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9789956762354
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9789956763214
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Agricultural Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Despite sustained continental and national struggles for autonomy, sovereignty and independence in postcolonial Africa, the continent is increasingly embattled by the forces of globalisation which threaten African identity that is at the core of African struggles for continental and national unity. Situating the debates in the contemporary discourses on decoloniality, global consumerism, global food apartheid and the challenges and prospects of the emergent sharing economies, this book critically examines the importation, use and implications of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and other such non-food products on African bodies, institutions and cultures. The book poses questions about how Africa can be decolonised both politically and in terms of global food apartheid and the dehumanising importation and use of foreign non-food products, some of which militate against the ethos of [African] identity, Renaissance and indigeneity. On note, the book urges the African continent to ensure the safety of imports ensuing from the global flows and circulations that are mired in the resilient invisible global matrices of power.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• List of Contributors
• Contents
• Chapter One - Consuming or Being Consumed in the New World Order? GMOs as an Insult to the Dispossessed and Impoverished of the Earth
• Chapter Two - Human Culling and Super-colonialism? Human Rights Issues of Doling Out Genetically Modified Food in Africa
• Chapter Three - Drinking to Death? The Proliferation of Illicit Mozambican Alcoholic Spirits in 21st Century Zimbabwe
• Chapter Four - Beyond the Genetically Modified Foods (GMFs) War: Reflections on the Effects of GMFs on Africa
• Chapter Five - Food, Health and Science in Africa: Locating GMOs Debates in the Shifting Global Epistemological Terrains
• Chapter Six - Dumping and Use of Second Hand Clothes: Imperialism and Social Identity Loss in Nigeria
• Chapter Seven - Meddling African Personhood and Aesthetics with Artificial Facial and Body Enhancement: Exploring Conceptions of Beauty by VaTsonga Women in Zimbabwe
• Chapter Eight - Africa without Genetically Modified Organisms: On the Need for National Food Sovereignty
• Chapter Nine - Appraising Polarity Views towards Genetically Modified Foods in Nigeria
• Chapter Ten - Mental Colonialism, Skin Bleaching, and the African Denial of the Self: Interrogating Skin Bleaching and Make-up among African Women
• Back cover