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Books on: (africa or african) and (women or woman)

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Circle Thinking: African Women Theologians in Dialogue with the West

Book by Carrie Pemberton; Brill, 2003

Subjects:

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Church History, Church Work With Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Circle Of Concerned African Women Theologians, Theology, Doctrinal--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History, Women In Christianity--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Women Theologians--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--20th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...theology. By locating the definition of African theology in the context of the polit- ical and economic conditions of Africa, African theologians can easily separate their...reconciliation (Carr 1974: 78). African theology thus had a clear fault line...hand were those sit- uated in South Africa, and their ideological cousins in the...
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The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa

Book by Lucy Creevey, Barbara Callaway; Lynne Rienner, 1994

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Islam--Social Aspects--Africa, West, Muslim Women--Nigeria, Muslim Women--Senegal, Women--Africa, West--Social Conditions, Women--Legal Status, Laws, Etc. (Islamic Law)--Africa, West

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa." In Joyce L. Moock ed...in West Africa: Changing African Family . No. 4, Pt. I...Activities of Secluded Hausa Women in Kano, Nigeria." In Edna Bay ed. , Women and Work in Africa . Boulder...Activities of Secluded Hausa Women in Kano." In Christine Oppong...the Life History of a House Woman." In Patricia Romero ed...
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Women and Sustainable Development in Africa

Book by Valentine Udoh James; Praeger Publishers, 1995

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Sustainable Development--Africa, Women Farmers--Africa, Women In Agriculture--Africa, Women In Rural Development--Africa

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...at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, New Orleans...the Peasants: What Role for African Women Farmers?" World Development...Agricultural Policy and Production in Africa: The Aims, the Methods and...Means." The Journal of Modern African Studies 21 , pp. 1-23...
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Preacher Woman Sings the Blues: The Autobiographies of Nineteenth-Century African American Evangelists

Book by Richard J. Douglass-Chin; University of Missouri Press, 2001

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African American Evangelists--Biography, African American Women--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Olney, James. Tell Me Africa: An Approach to African Literature. Princeton...for Comparative Studies: African vs. Western Autobiography. In African American Autobiography...Overton, Betty J. Black Women Preachers: A Literary...
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Western Women in Colonial Africa

Book by Caroline Oliver; Greenwood Press, 1982

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Travelers--Africa--Biography, Women Explorers--Biography, Women Missionaries--Africa--Biography, Women--Africa--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Of my five pioneer women, only one, Florence Baker...were great and adventurous women, though apart from breaking the ground, their legacy to Africa was not enormous, The advent of women explorers was nonetheless...were long remembered by the African peoples amongst whom they travelled. My third woman, Mary Kingsley, unveiled...

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Journal Articles on: (africa or african) and (women or woman)

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Between Union and Liberation: Women Artists in South Africa 1910-1994

Journal article by Shannen Hill; African Arts, Vol. 42, 2009

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Between Union and Liberation: Women Artists in South Africa 1910-1994 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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...interest is the fact that women dominated the development...of modernism in South Africa. In fact, men who...Stuart Larrabee, a woman who closely guarded...Dora and the Other Woman (1988), and Cape...restrictions upon and among women that South Africa once cast as different...seminars. Collectors of African art will find much of...century Afrikaner women made for the Voortrekker...
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Dollars and Lipstick: The United States through the Eyes of African Women

Journal article by Yvette Djachechi Monga; Africa, Vol. 70, 2000

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Africa--Social aspects, Africans--Attitudes, Americanization--Social aspects, Cameroon--Social aspects, Women's rights--Africa

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...brand products by African women may be ascribed to...new generations of Africans. Even in Islamic...fairly recent in Africa, was the subject...the repatriation of Africans and the difficulty Africans have in obtaining...balance the viewpoint of women from Africa, I organised a discussion...and experiences of African women who live in...
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The Institution of Woman-Marriage in Africa: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Journal article by Beth Greene; Ethnology, Vol. 37, 1998

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Africa--Social aspects, Igbo (African people)--Social aspects, Same-sex marriage--Africa, Women--Africa

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...patrilocal Lovedu, a married woman often lived with her children...cent of district heads were women (Krige and Krige 1943:180...Husbands Gender and Sex in an African Society. London. Bohannan...Marriage: A Re-evaluation. Africa XIX: 273-87. Burton, C. 1979. Woman-Marriage in Africa: A Critical...1994. The Detachability of Women: Gender and Kinship Processes...
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The Emperor Is Still Naked: Why the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa Leaves Women Exposed to More Discrimination

Journal article by Kristin Davis; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 42, 2009

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Affirmative action--Laws, regulations and rules, Gender equality--Laws, regulations and rules, Human rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, 2003, Sex discrimination against women--Laws, regulations and rules, United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

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...Protocol is to assist women, it is important to...that the problem for women does not lie in paucity...127) Although Africa had societal structures...With colonialism, African law ceased to be endogenously developed ... by Africans or ... for Africans...physical well-being of woman becomes an object of...Protocol by Uganda, South Africa, and Zambia...Faiza Jama Mohamed, African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: The SOAWR...
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Hear Our Voices!: Women and the Transformation of South African Higher Education

Journal article by Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela; The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 70, 2001

Subjects:

Administration, African Americans, Educators, Higher education, South Africa, Success, Women

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Hear Our Voices!: Women and the Transformation...all levels.1 South African institutions of higher...education in South Africa. The institutions...formerly designated for Africans and a historically...Developments The South African educational system...while Blacks and women of color were relegated...were held in South Africa in 1994-elections in which the African National Congress...interests of all South Africans will be protected...

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Magazine Articles on: (africa or african) and (women or woman)

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Good News for All Women of Africa: There Will Be 50% Women and 50% Men in the AU Commission. Historic, Reports Tom Mbakwe

Magazine article by Tom Mbakwe; New African, September 2002

Subjects:

Africa--Political aspects, African Union--Social policy, Equality--Political aspects, International agencies--Social policy, International organizations--Social policy, Women in politics--Africa

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...really happening in Africa! Days after launching the African Union (AU) in Durban...representation of women and men. But this is...going to get - 50% women, 50% men. The groundbreaking...each region shall be a woman". The 10 commissioners...candidates, including a woman for each portfolio...the need for eligible Africans, both men and women, to rise up to the...
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African Women Respond: Summary Report on G8 and Nepad Plans and the Impact on Women in Africa

Magazine article; Women & Environments International Magazine, Spring 2003

Subjects:

Africa, Economic development, New Partnership for Africa's Development, Political activities, Women

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African Women Respond: Summary Report on...and the Impact on Women in Africa AT THE G8 SUMMIT IN CANADA...overseas development aid to Africa will increase by $ 12 billion...consultation among eleven African women leaders from Burundi...
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African Women Respond: Summary Report on G8 and Nepad Plans and the Impact on Women in Africa

Magazine article; Women & Environments International Magazine, Spring 2003

Subjects:

Africa, Funding, New Partnership for Africas Development, Orientations, Summit conferences, Sustainable development, Women

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African Women Respond: Summary Report on...and the Impact on Women in Africa AT THE G8 SUMMIT IN CANADA...overseas development aid to Africa will increase by $ 12 billion...consultation among eleven African women leaders from Burundi...
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Hope Sadza Bridging the Education Divide; What Inspires a Woman to Rise from Being a Rural School Teacher, to One Who Creates the First Mature Women's University in Africa?

Magazine article by Elizabeth B. Mpfumira; New African, August 2008

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Sadza, Hope--Appreciation, Sadza, Hope--Social aspects, Women educators--Appreciation, Women educators--Social aspects, Women teachers--Appreciation, Women teachers--Social aspects

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Divide; What Inspires a Woman to Rise from Being...Womens University in Africa?. by Elizabeth B. Mpfumira What inspires a woman to rise from being...university in Africa? New African Womans Elizabeth B...allow ordinary African women to advance themselves...Africas most influential woman in education at the Women Entrepreneurs and Achievers...conjunction with the Pan African Womens Organization...broken new grounds in Africa and the Diaspora...
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Broken Promises: As Guerilla Fighters and Much More, Women Played a Pivotal Role in the Anti-Colonial Liberation Struggles Which Shook Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Women Were Promised Emancipation during the Struggle, but Although Africa Now Has an Elected Female President in Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, the Promises of Post-Independence Gender Equality Have Largely Failed to Materialise, Reports Santorri Chamley

Magazine article by Santorri Chamley; New African, June 2011

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Gender equality--Political aspects, Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson--Elections, Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson--Political activity, Women--Elections, Women--Political aspects

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...Liberation Struggles Which Shook Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Women...struggles in Africa. The African National Congress (ANC...as their male compatriots. Women not only took on dangerous...they were wounded in action. Women also bore the brunt of the...hundreds of mostly Kikuyu women were recruited into the Land...In Guinea Bissau, a young woman called Tian, a Silla was...

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Newspaper Articles on: (africa or african) and (women or woman)

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Coach Aiming for African Goal; HER Passion for Netball Has Inspired Students across Northumbria University, and Now Anita Navin Is off to Africa to Empower Women with the Sport. BURHANA ISLAM Finds out More

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), April 30, 2011

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Islam--England, Netball, Northumbria University, Universities and colleges--England

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Coach Aiming for African Goal; HER Passion for...Anita Navin Is off to Africa to Empower Women with the Sport. BURHANA...empower women all over Africa. "I started playing...quite a strong sport in Africa - its exclusively for...We want to make the Africans self-sufficient so...lives but not abolish African customs altogether...
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Danger Calls for TV's African Queen; Real Women Wildlife Film-Maker Saba Douglas-Hamilton Has a Taste for Adventure Which She Puts Down to Her Scots Side. GRAHAM KEAL Trekked to Bristol to Find out about Her Daredevil Explorations of Scary Territories in BBC2 Series Unknown Africa, but since Then Saba Has Been Engulfed by the Unrest in Kenya, Her Own Adopted Country

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 18, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Danger Calls for TVs African Queen; Real Women Wildlife Film-Maker Saba...Territories in BBC2 Series Unknown Africa, but since Then Saba Has Been...interview her about Unknown Africa, her three-part BBC2 exploration...Saba sweeping away like some African Cinderella comes to mind...
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How Could This White Housewife's Identity Be Stolen and Used in a Passport by an African Woman for 15 Years?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 21, 2011

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False personation, Impersonation (Fraud), Passports, Theft, Working women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Stolen and Used in a Passport by an African Woman for 15 Years? Byline: James Tozer...their obvious differences, the African woman was able to spend 15 years...years younger than me. She is of African appearance and I am not. How she...
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Incontinence African Scourge; Lack of Medical Care Turns Girls, Women into Pariahs

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 17, 2007

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Health care industry, Urinary incontinence, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Incontinence African Scourge; Lack of Medical...in a stillbirth. Affected women, many of whom are teenagers in rural sub-Saharan Africa, suffer shame and rejection...of five Ethiopian girls and women with obstetric fistulas and...societies where a poor diet causes women to have smaller bodies. An...persistent drip of urine that a woman suffering from the preventable...
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Monique's LABOUR OF LOVE; at 22, Kris Holloway Left New York to Spend Two Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged a Deep Friendship with a Young Midwife. Here She Pays Tribute to Monique Dembele's Joie De Vivre, Her Courage in the Face of Relentless Hardships and Her Determination to Transform the Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR FEDORSKY

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 1, 2011

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Holloway, Kris--Appreciation, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged...Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR...was the most educated woman in town. The village...in a country where one woman in 22 dies in pregnancy...scrubbed surface a naked woman pushed. Moniques hands...about nutrition with the women who came to the clinic...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: (africa or african) and (women or woman)

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Woman Suffrage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...declaration of the rights of women prepared by Elizabeth...to newly emancipated African-American men but not to the women who had helped win it...vote. The National Woman Suffrage Association...American countries, woman suffrage was granted...In the Philippines women have voted since 1937...of Saudi Arabia. In Africa, women were often enfranchised...
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African Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ceremonies to show the importance of women. The Baule of Cote dIvoire...wax) process found in many W African regions. They portray human...and spontaneity unusual in African art. Many are associated with...figures, are the earliest African sculpture yet found (c.500...15th cent.) are unique in Africa because of their naturalistic...
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South African War

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...territorial possessions in S Africa and by the late 19th...commissioner for their South African territories, determined...be over, left South Africa and delegated the mopping...earth policy. Boer women and children were herded...000 or more black Africans also died. Thousands...political life of South Africa throughout the 20th...People and the South African War, 1899 1902 (1983...
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Benin , Country, Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...mi (112,622 sq km), W Africa, bordering on Togo in the...began the practice of using women as soldiers, conquered most...among the European powers for African colonies accelerated, France...was made part of French West Africa . Under the French a port was...previously headed the West African Development Bank, was elected...
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Head, Bessie

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

HEAD, BESSIE 1937 86, South African writer. Born in South Africa to a white mother and black father...economic stagnation, and the status of women in her adopted country. Her novels include...1971), and A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga (1984); a collection of stories...

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