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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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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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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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'Without Women, Nothing Can Succeed': Yoruba Women in the Oodua People's Congress (OPC), Nigeria

Journal article by Insa Nolte; Africa, Vol. 78, 2008

Subjects:

Political power--Demographic aspects, Political power--Social aspects, Power (Social sciences)--Demographic aspects, Power (Social sciences)--Social aspects, Women in public life--Social aspects, Yoruba (African people)--Political aspects, Yoruba (African people)--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...The Revival of African Traditional Religious Practices...Troubled sisterhood: women and politics in...women in other African countries sometimes...33) The role of women in the preparation...of religion and traditional medicine in Ibadan...

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Magazine Articles on: africa women traditional

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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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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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Sinking a Well: Drill or Dig? Constructing a New Shallow Well Is Often the Only Way of Watering Rural Africa. but Whether a Modern Tubewell or Traditional Excavation Is Budgeted for Depends on a Number of Factors. Most Importantly, What Is the Well to Be Used For?

Magazine article; African Review of Business and Technology, Vol. 42, July 2006

Subjects:

Africa--Social aspects, Irrigation (Agriculture)--Forecasts and trends, Irrigation (Agriculture)--Management, Irrigation (Agriculture)--Methods, Irrigation--Forecasts and trends, Irrigation--Management, Irrigation--Methods, Rural water supply--Africa, Rural water supply--Forecasts and trends, Rural water supply--Management, Water-supply, Rural--Africa, Water-supply, Rural--Forecasts and trends, Water-supply, Rural--Management, Wells--Design and construction

Collections: Entire Library

...Africa. but Whether a Modern Tubewell or Traditional Excavation Is Budgeted for Depends on...on rural water development anywhere in Africa is the mobilisation of available resources...abused) and becomes a social focus for women and children in particular. Other factors...
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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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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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THE KING OF Corruption; His Birthday Party Cost [Pounds Sterling]1m and He Keeps 12 Wives in Unimaginable Luxury. as Bob Geldof Launches His Brave Crusade to Save Africa, the Grotesque Court of King Mswati III Is a Compelling Reminder of Why the World Must Act

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 2, 2005

Subjects:

Mswati III, King of Swaziland

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

...Brave Crusade to Save Africa, the Grotesque Court...Sherborne, the deeply traditional boys public school in...obligatory perks for women carrying royal children...outdated shenanigans of Africas last absolute monarch...civil disturbance in a traditionally peaceful country whose...
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Out of Africa; David Mastin Takes a Trip into the African Bush

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 25, 2007

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

...porridge alternative for breakfast and traditional English desserts of spotted dick and treacle...your local surgery) for certain parts of Africa and malaria tablets (pounds 2.20 each...local merchants had supplied foam, and women hadmade cushions for the passengers to...
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Holidays: Fall for Africa

Newspaper article by Deborah Sherwood; Sunday Mirror (London, England), April 11, 1999

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

...lodges set high in the hills. Africa is not all wildlife and safaris...around the camp fire then the traditional dinner served from a sunken...talk "big plans" while the women sit on mats, the older ones...Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa), I also went to Mozambique...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: africa women traditional

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Benin , Country, Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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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Uganda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...036 sq km), E central Africa. It borders on Tanzania...the rest either follow traditional religious beliefs or...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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Tuareg

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...Tuareg resented European hegemony in Africa, and they long resisted conquest. Tuareg men go veiled, while the women are unveiled. Women enjoy respect and...many pre-Islamic rites and customs. The traditional way of life for the Tuaregs (e.g., raiding...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...young men and many young women. The creation of a great...United States cast off its traditional peacetime isolationism...neutral nations of Asia and Africa, partly because of the...Courage: A History of Women in the United States...Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003...
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Cannibalism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...cannibalism, and it has been observed in Africa, North and South America, the South Pacific...Donner Party ). In contrast, various traditional cultures are known to have encouraged...as endocannibalism. For example, Fore women of New Guinea, who dispose of the dead...

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