Dr Delphine Manetta, IFRA’s deputy director, will hold a panel at the Lagos Studies Association Conference 2026 focusing on the role of care in the construction of masculinities in Africa, but proposing several shifts in perspective from the literature from a perspective that emerged with Western scholars to one more centered on African perspectives.
Date & Time: 20 June, 3:45pm - 5:15pm
Venue: E-library
You will find below the details of the panelists.
Part I
Deconstructing the “Hard Man”: Moral Masculinity and Barriers to Caring Masculinity by Mofeyisara O. Omobowale (University of Ibadan) and Oloruntomiwa I. Oyetunde (University of Ibadan)
“If I Don’t Love Me, I Can’t Love Anyone Else”: Digital Self-Care, Coping, and Masculine Repair in Contemporary Nigeria by Olajide Ogunmakinju (University of California, Merced)
Masculine Care and Musical Labor in Yoruba Traditional Medicine Performance by Albert Oluwole Uzodimma Authority (Ignatius Ajuru University of Education)
Unfamiliar hands: the Male Traditional Birth Attendants (MTBAS) in Abeokuta, Southwest Nigeria by Thompson Olakunle Olasupo (Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta)
Part II
Caring Masculinities in Motion: Men, Family, and the Cross-Border Herbal Medicine Trade along Nigeria-Niger corridor by Oluwasegun Ajetunmobi (WNCC & University of Ibadan)
Men Who Care: Masculinity, Peer Care, and Gendered Interdependence among People who Use Drugs in Nigeria by Janet Ogundairo (University of Ibadan)
Beyond the Breadwinning, Negotiating Caring Masculinities and the Changing Patterns of Fatherhood among Igbo Men in Lagos, Nigeria by Oyebanke Wura Oyelaja (University of Ibadan)
Caring Masculinities in Africa: Decolonizing Gender Constructs through Archival and Ethnographic Lenses by Solomon Adewole (Boy-child Advocate)
