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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

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...that the AIDSCAP traditional healer program is heavily focused on women. Working with and...membership is primarily women, perhaps 80 to 85...justified in South Africa, including their...program experience in Africa that suggests women...
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Courtyards, Markets, City Streets: Urban Women in Africa

Book by Kathleen E. Sheldon; Westview Press, 1996

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Urban Women--Africa

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Urban Areas Act of South Africa". In African Women...Female and Male in West Africa , ed. Christine Oppong...Kano: Modern Women and Traditional Life". Africa Report 30, 2:26...Yorubaland, Nigeria". In Women and Space: Ground Rules...Mari H. 1984. "Woman-Headed Households...
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The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa

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

Subjects:

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

...class educated Muslim women, are carried on from...traditions or laws. Here, women have begun to respond...the activities of women are now public, with...operate throughout West Africa, drawing women out of their traditional roles. Where economic...
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Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change

Book by Nancy J. Hafkin, Edna G. Bay; Stanford University Press, 1976

Subjects:

Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic Conditions, Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...wrote about the Igbo women of Owerri Province...important roles that Igbo women played in traditional village life. * Denise...collection Women of Tropical Africa was another laudable...that Nigerian women in traditional times were active political...
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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

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...of all hours spent in traditional agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, 70 percent of hours...those regions where traditional sources of male income...field visits, farm women indicated that their...be the same for all women. Men have used their...are pooled that the woman loses control over taking...

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Journal Articles on: africa women traditional

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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

...conform. Over 50,000 women of all races, in cities...Party, and the ANC, women organized petitions...country. Led by the first woman to be elected to the...Lilian Ngoyi, 20,000 women staged a silent thirty...resilience. Women Writing Africa includes a number of...proposes a return to traditional African proverbs as...
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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

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Africa as a seductive woman. In contrast to West...short, Europeans saw Africa as "the white mans...the European trope of Africa as seductress. The anthology frees African women from these discursive...written by a St. Thomas woman named Madlena Van Poppos...slaves who resettled in Africa. (Significant numbers...space to the voices of women struggling for their...
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Integrating Literature to Teach about Women of West Africa

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

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

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...literature to teach about women of West Africa by Julie Doughty Despite...women. (1) If women of Africa are studied at all...Vera states, "Women of Africa have not been swallowed...face as they challenge traditional female roles to pursue...
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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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...Violence Against Women (COVAW...Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting...Development in Africa (WiLDAF...rejection of the traditional practice in...the rights of women in marriage...of Women in Africa art. 7(c...being of woman becomes an...Uganda, South Africa, and Zambia...the Rights of Women in Africa...
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Women and Education in South Africa: Factors Influencing Women's Educational Progress and Their Entry into Traditionally Male-dominated Fields

Journal article by Rowena Martineau; The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 66, 1997

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Blacks, Education, South Africa, Women

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...among African women. A significant...Government of South Africa, 1997). These...suggests that the traditional male-dominated...women in South Africa worked primarily...employed African women as domestics...only one African woman had completed...446 African women with teachers...women in South Africa. By as late...

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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

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

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...Still Widespread in Africa, and Being Accused...Sentence. and with Traditional Gender Roles Being Challenged...is widespread across Africa, thriving in regions...photographed many of the 70 women living as outcasts in...didnt relent." The woman died of her illness...their attitudes towards traditional gender roles. Mamprusi...
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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

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

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African Women Respond: Summary Report...the Impact on Women in Africa AT THE G8 SUMMIT IN CANADA...overseas development aid to Africa will increase by $ 12...Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Sudan and representatives...the political elite and traditional leadership in Africa...
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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...the Impact on Women in Africa AT THE G8 SUMMIT IN CANADA...overseas development aid to Africa will increase by $ 12...Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Sudan and representatives...the political elite and traditional leadership in Africa...
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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

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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

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...Human Rights, Women, Drugs, Homeless, Southern Africa. Action by the...demanded that South Africa stop recruiting...terrorism against women and children in...imprisonment of women and children was...against South Africa was approved in...
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First Black Woman Consul General in South Africa

Magazine article by D. Michael Cheers; Ebony, Vol. 51, January 1996

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African American women--Biography, Bridgewater, Pamela--Foreign relations, Diplomats--Foreign relations, South Africa--Relations with the United States, United States--Relations with South Africa

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First Black woman consul general in South Africa by D. Michael Cheers...diplomat in South Africa, Bridgewater, a former...her residence for a traditional Thanksgiving feast with...power company in South Africa. Eyes, heads and bodies...

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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...THE SCOTS QUEEN OF AFRICA; Strong Spirit...Way, Far from the Traditional Image of Missionaries...Calabar River in West Africa, theenormity of...Mary is the only woman to appear on aScottish...the first Western women to venture into...The people in West Africa remember her as the woman who took on tribal...
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AIDS Work Takes Woman from South Eugene to South Africa

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), November 29, 2005

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

AIDS Work Takes Woman from South Eugene to...hospice in rural South Africa. Larkan, a native of South Africa, was equally struck...says. The result: The women formed Thembanathi...perspective of AIDS in Africa. Other local groups...But South Africas traditional patriarchy, leaving...
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BEWARE! MADONNA; When She'rescued'a Baby Boy from Malawi, Madonna Said He Would Have a Better Life Here. Read the Deeply Moving Story of a Woman Also Adopted from Africa and Raised in Britain - and Decide If the Star Is Right

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 17, 2006

Subjects:

Comedians

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

...Here. Read the Deeply Moving Story of a Woman Also Adopted from Africa and Raised in...skin, I still dont feel like an African woman. Instead, Id describe myself more as...missionary rescued me from a roadside. The woman had been driving along a dirt road when...
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Cape Crusade through South Africa

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

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South Africa

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

...fruits, herbalists, women selling maize meal...then banned in South Africa) was legal, a hotel...has been part of South Africa since 1994. Over the...PHINDA No visit to South Africa can be complete without...complex containing a traditional round, thatched-roof...
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Empowering Women Entrepreneurs

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, May 9, 2010

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Businesspeople, Businesswomen, Development banks, Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Working women

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

Empowering Women Entrepreneurs. Among...countries on how to give women the dignity they deserve...services are started by women who usually are wives...poverty by engaging in such traditional activities as market...developing countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia...

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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, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

BENIN , country, Africa benen , officially Republic...112,622 sq km), W Africa, bordering on Togo in...the inhabitants follow traditional religious beliefs; voodoo...the practice of using women as soldiers, conquered...made part of French West Africa . Under the French a...
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Paul VI

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...of the world, including Africa (1969) and Southeast Asia...divorce, and the role of women in the church all issues on which Paul upheld the traditional position of the church...priests and the admission of women into the priesthood. The...
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Tuareg

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...resented European hegemony in Africa, and they long resisted conquest...Tuareg men go veiled, while the women are unveiled. Women enjoy respect and freedom, and...Islamic rites and customs, but the traditional way of life for the Tuaregs...
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Burundi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...km), E central Africa. It borders on...about 25% follow traditional beliefs and 10...populated nations in Africa. Its poor transportation...with at least 30% women; its members are...part of German East Africa , but the Germans...spread, but the traditional social structure...
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Tanzania

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...945,087 sq km), E Africa, formed in 1964 by the...the highest point in Africa) in the northeast...and another 35% follow traditional religious beliefs. The...China, India, South Africa, and Canada. Government...popularly elected, 37 are women appointed by the president...

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