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Books on: africa women traditional

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Women and Sustainable Development in Africa

Book by Valentine Udoh James; Praeger Publishers, 1995

Subjects:

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

Collections: Entire Library

Sustainable development has traditionally neglected the contributions of women until recently. Government and institutions in developing countries, as well as foreign aid agencies, are just beginning to realize the important roles filled by women as farmers, entrepreneurs, food providers, educators ...
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Sustainable development has traditionally neglected the contributions of women until recently. Government and institutions in developing countries, as well as foreign aid agencies, are just beginning to realize the important roles filled by women as farmers, entrepreneurs, food providers, educators, and role models in developing countries and are attempting to integrate women into nongovernmental organization projects and voluntary organization programs. According to James and his contributors, women should not be just acknowledged, they must be included in the planning, construction, implementation, and operation of development schemes in Africa in order for development to be successful and widespread.
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Women in the World of Africa

Book by Joan Esherick; Mason Crest, 2005

Subjects:

Women--Africa--Juvenile Literature

...green highlands, or cities. African women can dress in traditional garb or Western-style clothes...Educational facilities away from traditional sites, often to ac- commodate...Abungu, George 17 7 African women in history 11, 13, 14, 17...
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AIDS and STDs in Africa: Bridging the Gap between Traditional Healing and Modern Medicine

Book by Edward C. Green; Westview Press, 1994

Subjects:

Aids (Disease)--Africa, Sexually Transmitted Diseases--Africa, Traditional Medicine--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...indigenous African healers...between the traditional healer and...at which women should start...rates of traditional STDs, such...1980s in Africa Meheus...infected women are more...patients seek traditional therapy in...widows or with women who have...and AIDS in Africa." Social...
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The Feminization of Development Processes in Africa: Current and Future Perspectives

Book by Valentine Udoh James, James S. Etim; Praeger Publishers, 1999

Subjects:

Feminism--Africa, Women In Development--Africa, Women In Public Life--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

Women have historically provided vision and leadership to African countries and are now being recognized as pivotal to the overall sustainable development of Africa. In many cases, however, this recognition has not resulted in the empowerment of African women, who still face great discrimination ...
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Women have historically provided vision and leadership to African countries and are now being recognized as pivotal to the overall sustainable development of Africa. In many cases, however, this recognition has not resulted in the empowerment of African women, who still face great discrimination. This edited volume explores the contributions women have made to all phases of development--planning design, construction, implementation, and operation--and the obstacles they have had to face. Besides analyzing the current situation and identifying trends, the contributors also make recommendations for policy reform and for future planning.
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Transforming Capitalism and Patriarchy: Gender and Development in Africa

Book by April A. Gordon; Lynne Rienner, 1996

Subjects:

Capitalism--Africa, Feminist Theory--Africa, Patriarchy--Africa, Women In Development--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...studies on women and development in Africa to argue...preserve traditional patriarchal...modern and traditional, I find these...patriarchy in Africa is conflictual...from men and women, countries...assigned to men. Women for the most...colonized African societies...relations, and traditional ideologies...

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Journal Articles on: africa women traditional

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Integrating Literature to Teach about Women of West Africa

Journal article by Julie Doughty; Social Education, Vol. 67, 2003

Subjects:

Africans--Study and teaching, West Africa, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...African women. (3) Set in Accra, the capital of Ghana, Changes captures the pressures that educated African women often face as they challenge traditional female roles to pursue professional careers. The novels main characters, Esi and Opokuya, are...
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Women Writing Africa. Vol. 1: The Southern Region

Journal article by Kay Schaffer; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Women Writing Africa. Vol. 1: The Southern Region (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...over 150 women from the Southern African region. Organized...funeral songs; traditional isiZulu and...voice. South African black womens...coloured women contest each other; traditional, rural, and...transformed the traditionally masculine...time, South African women, educated...
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Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw, Eds. Women Writing Africa. Vol. 2: West Africa and the Sahel

Journal article by Lisa Mcnee; Biography, Vol. 29, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Women Writing Africa: vol. 2, West Africa and the Sahel (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...fallacies about African women. That being said, the editors do not fail to listen to the voices of the many African women who are not traditional rulers, but traders, singers, mothers, farmers, and so on. This anthology offers a panoply of images...
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Margaret J. Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford and Nobantu Rasebotsa (Eds), Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region, Vol. 1

Journal article by Fiona Johnson Chalamanda; Africa, Vol. 75, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region, vol. 1 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...officials or as contemporary literate women operating from within a Western education...writing from the 1970s of one of South Africas first black female journalists, Joyce...primarily the repositories of these countries traditional expressions, whereas I am sure archives...
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Black Women Writers as Dynamic Agents of Change: Empowering Women from Africa to America

Journal article by Lena M. Ampadu; Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table, 2007

Subjects:

African American women authors--Political activity, African American women authors--Works, African American women writers--Political activity, African American women writers--Works, Ba, Mariama--Political activity, Ba, Mariama--Works, Leadership--Portrayals, Maraire, J. Nozipo--Political activity, Maraire, J. Nozipo--Works, Walker, Alice (American writer)--Political activity, Walker, Alice (American writer)--Works

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...Women of African descent who...to present women who defy traditional roles and...to present women who defy traditional roles and...Letter); the African American...In East Africa, the Kenya...that dispel traditional images of women as subservient...

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Magazine Articles on: africa women traditional

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The Witches of Gambaga: Belief in Witchcraft Is Still Widespread in Africa, and Being Accused of Its Practice Can Be a Death Sentence. and with Traditional Gender Roles Being Challenged, Such Accusations Are Becoming Increasingly Common. Simon De Trey-White Visits a Camp in Ghana That Has Housed 'Convicted' Witches for More Than 200 Years

Magazine article by Simon De Trey-White; Geographical, Vol. 78, August 2006

Subjects:

Africa--Domestic policy, Africa--Social aspects, Ghana--Domestic policy, Ghana--Social aspects, Rural women--Crimes against, Witchcraft--Myths and legends

Collections: Entire Library

...Sentence. and with Traditional Gender Roles...widespread across Africa, thriving in...many of the 70 women living as outcasts...attitudes towards traditional gender roles...patriarchal, and women deemed to be...and medicine. Women are supposed...encouraged it. Traditionally, Mamprusi men...
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Gender Inequality in Africa

Magazine article by David John Bwakali; Contemporary Review, Vol. 279, November 2001

Subjects:

Africa--Social aspects, Equality--Africa, Sex role--Africa, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...countries. Traditional African culture had...of men and women in the society...standards, traditional African culture was not fair to women. It dictated...historian. Women were victims...injustice in traditional African culture not...
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Economic and Social Council Considers Issues Relating to Human Rights, Women, Drugs, Homeless, Southern Africa

Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 23, August 1986

Subjects:

Civil rights--International aspects, Drug abuse--Prevention, Homelessness--Prevention, International organization--Social policy, Southern Africa--Social aspects, United Nations. Economic and Social Council--Social policy, Women--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of African Women Beyond the United Nations Decade for Women (1986/28...their licit requirements of opiate raw materials from traditional supplier countries insofar as possible (1986/9...
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Women and AIDS in South Africa: A Conflicted History Leads to a Dispiriting Present

Magazine article by Alexandra Suich; UN Chronicle, Vol. 43, July 2006

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease) in women--Health aspects, AIDS (Disease)--Health aspects, HIV (Viruses)--Health aspects, HIV--Health aspects, Women--Health aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...HIV rate among this vulnerable group has skyrocketed in South Africa. Arguably, a heavy burden of the disease also falls on women who are not necessarily infected. Because of traditional gender roles, women account for the majority of caregivers...
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Swaziland's Conquering Heroines: As World Leaders Descend on Southern Africa to Debate Global Ills, the Continent Faces Its Greatest Ever Catastrophe. Richard Dowden Talks to HIV-Positive Women Determined to Change the World before They Die

Magazine article by Richard Dowden; New Statesman, Vol. 131, August 19, 2002

Subjects:

AIDS (Disease)--Prevention, AIDS activists--Conduct of life, Women volunteers in social service--Conduct of life

Collections: Entire Library

...war on the traditional relationship...between men and women in Africa. In most of Africa, women are still...in more traditional rural ones...and their traditional respect for...is that if women want to avoid...women in Africa, a change...

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Newspaper Articles on: africa women traditional

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THE SCOTS QUEEN OF AFRICA; Strong Spirit: Mary Slessor, above Was Determined to Do Things Her Own Way, Far from the Traditional Image of Missionaries in Nigeria, Left

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 1, 2007

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

...Far from the Traditional Image of Missionaries...River in West Africa, theenormity of...first Western women to venture into...people in West Africa remember her as...way the men and women of the land saw...West Coast of Africa, who told of the...thedefence of women and childrens...
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Cape Crusade through South Africa

Newspaper article by Corinna Lothar; The Washington Times, May 27, 2000

Subjects:

South Africa

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

...We visited a family there - 18 men, women and children living in two small rooms...where gambling (then banned in South Africa) was legal, a hotel-and-casino complex...built in a small complex containing a traditional round, thatched-roof Zulu structure (for...
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Out of Africa

Newspaper article by Denise Barnes; The Washington Times, November 4, 2000

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

...and pairs it with African fabrics, or she may take a traditional African style and use fabrics such as linen or silk. Ms...have this wonderful relationship with with so many women across the country." Ms. Winstead forged one such...
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Now It's Africa's Turn; Far from Tokenism, the Hastily Arranged Africa Calling Concert in Support of Live8 Will Introduce a Continent of Long-Overlooked Musicians to Britain

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), June 17, 2005

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

...is pretty limited, too. Groups with a traditional acoustic sound get more radio play and...themes. To keep their Western audience, Africans often found themselves stuck in a rut...familiar annual ingress of chignoned French women and elegant, linenclad Italians, the...
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Building a Legacy in Ghana Hanover Park Exchanges Goodwill with Sister City in West Africa

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 19, 2007

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

...Coast, Ghana, a west African town of 250,000, have...paramount chief and his traditional council of chiefs, the...counseling center, so women can "wait with some dignity...money for micro-loans for women entrepreneurs in Cape...the village at the U.S.-Africa Sister Cities Conference...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: africa women traditional

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Benin , Country, Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...the inhabitants follow traditional religious beliefs...the practice of using women as soldiers, conquered...the European powers for African colonies accelerated...part of French West Africa . Under the French a...previously headed the West African Development Bank, was...
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Tanzania

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...35% is Muslim, and another 35% follow traditional religious beliefs. The population of Zanzibar...trade partners are China, India, South Africa, and Canada. Government Tanzania...members are popularly elected, 37 are women appointed by the president, and five are...
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Uganda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Muslim; the rest follow traditional religious beliefs...Emirates, and South Africa. Government Uganda...rest are nominated from women, the army, and other...seats was allocated to Africans. In 1953, Mutesa II...four districts; the traditional kingships were also...
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Burundi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Catholic; about 25% follow traditional beliefs and 10% are...populated nations in Africa. Its poor transportation...Tutsi, with at least 30% women; its members are elected...part of German East Africa , but the Germans began...was spread, but the traditional social structure of...
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Rwanda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...populated countries in Africa, and its population...small number follow traditional religious beliefs...are nominated from women, youth, and other...traders from the E African coast, and prohibited...of German East Africa . A German administrative...Belgian rule the traditional social structure...

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