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Author : Etienne Van de Walle
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 076561619X
10. Matching Spouses in Monogamous and Polygynous Households of Cameroon -- 11. Local Meanings and Census Categories: Widow Inheritance and the Position of Luo Widows in Kenya -- References -- Contributors -- Index
Author : Aderanti Adepoju
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780595364640
African Families in the Twenty-First Century explores the idea that the family is the basic unit of society and an enduring multifunctional institution in Africa. The functions and structures of African families, as well as the multiple roles played by Africa's women, are undergoing structural changes. The ways in which education, employment, and current economic conditions reshape these complex roles are immense. The challenges facing African families and their members-such as globalization, war, poverty, economic restructuring, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, harmful traditional practices, aging, and care and support of the elderly-have magnified due to a series of economic, social, political, religious, ecological, and other related factors. Author Aderanti Adepoju explores the vulnerability and resilience of African families in the face of these crises and challenges. He also looks at the opportunities facing African families in the new millennium. Because of the importance of African families to the development process, African Families in the Twenty-First Century is essential reading for planners, policy makers, activists, academics, and students.
Author : Göran Therborn
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9171065369
The family is one of the most important institutions of African societies. Where is it going today? How is it affected by global processes, cultural and political as well as economic? How does it compare with family developments in other parts of the world? These are questions which this book addresses. The contributors deal with the African family in a comparative global context, focusing on patriarchy, sexuality and marriage, and fertility; biological and social reproduction in Ghana under conditions of globalization and structural adjustment; Nigerian marriage relations under the impact of current conditions and; family changes in the North (Britain) from a family perspective of the South (South Africa).
Author : Etienne Van De Walle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315497518
This volume in the ?General Demography of Africa? series encompasses many nations and focuses on a feature of the censuses ? household relationships. African households rank among the most complex in the world. This work makes it possible to investigate relationships among individuals within the household and relate them to household characteristics such as structure and headship. In addition to discussing household composition in comparative terms, the book pays special attention to the place of women in the household, and to the residence of children and the aged. The analyses use micro-data from a variety of countries including Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d?Ivoire, the Gambia, Senegal, Kenya and the Republic of South Africa.
Author : Ms.Louise Fox
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484369968
This paper reviews the evidence on how households in Sub-Saharan Africa segment along consumption, income and earning dimensions relevant for quantitative macroeconomic policy models which incorporate heterogeneity. Key findings include the importance of home-grown food in the income and consumption of house-holds well up the income distribution, the lack of formal financial inclusion for all but the richest households, and the importance of non-wage income. These stylized facts suggest that an externally-generated macroeconomic shock and the short-term policy response would mainly affect the behavior and welfare of these richer urban households, who are also more likely to have the means to cope. Middle class and poor households, especially in rural areas, should be insulated from these external shocks but vulnerable to a wide range of structural factors in the economy as well as idiosyncratic shocks.
Author : Edith Ofwona Adera,Timothy M. Waema,Julian D. May
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781552505397
'ICT Pathways to Poverty Reduction' presents a conceptual framework to analyse how poverty dynamics change over time and to shed light on whether ICT access benefits the poor as well as the not-so-poor. Essential reading for policymakers, researchers, and academics in international development or ICT for development.
Author : Aderanti Adepoju
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022852268
This book investigates the challenges facing the African family and their multiple effects from an extremely broad perspective. The contributors explore the nature of available data on which current policies are premised, marriage patterns, the role of the family in agriculture, the changing roles and status of women, the transformations generated by mass migration, the strains and tensions wrought by structural adjustment programmes and the functioning of family law. Throughout, the book makes clear the importance of the family to the development process. The contributors call on development strategists to see the family as a dynamic source of change as much as the recipient of it; as such this book is essential reading for students, academics and activists in development studies.
Author : Nene Ernest Khalema,Monde Makiwane,Mzikazi Nduna
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443899918
This book presents a comprehensive overview of African children’s lives in times of transition, transformation, and change some twenty-two years after political emancipation in South Africa. With diverse family formations, non-marital childbearing, and diverse parenting situations prevalent in South Africa, the book covers both the conceptual and theoretical questions that explore the context of children’s experiences. It uses examples from a range of primary and secondary data sources to illustrate how resilience in children faced with adversity could be nurtured, demonstrating the links between theory and practice, and critically commenting on questions of epistemology by drawing on research with children within different African social and cultural contexts. While the volume affirms the complexities of explaining child adversity or privilege, it stresses the diversity of South African children’s experiences and the importance of adopting both children’s rights and Afro-centric perspectives to account for the commonality and diversity of childhood and children’s empowerment in diverse family systems. The contributions also provide recommendations on how to respond and intervene in children’s issues, from both practical and policy levels, in a dedicated manner to ensure that children are protected from harm, nurtured to succeed, and assisted during and after traumatic experiences. This volume represents a valuable resource for scholars and students in the fields of humanities, social science, development studies and public health, as well as policy makers, child practitioners, and child rights advocates.
Author : Viola Nzira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136903250
This important text promotes understanding of the complexities and diversities of African family life. It stimulates creative thinking about how social care professionals can develop meaningful relationships and engage confidently and effectively with African families they encounter within work contexts. The book will help students and professionals to develop specific knowledge and skills for working with African families, including refugees, asylum seekers, new and settled immigrants and people of dual heritage. Whilst highlighting differences in terms of practices across the continent, the common threads and shared identities of these families can provide the building blocks for new and relevant knowledge which then inform anti-oppressive practice. Issues such as child discipline, officialdom, roles and responsibilities within the family, image and identity and the perception of others are discussed in chapters covering: • economic and social pressures • family structures • marriage patterns/partnerships • mortality and death • faith and spirituality Containing numerous illustrative examples, this accessible text will be useful to all social work and social care students.
Author : Acheampong Yaw Amoateng,Tim B. Heaton
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015074247837
Prior to South Africa's democratic transition in 1994, studies of families and households were limited by the structure of apartheid and the lack of adequate social and economic data. Large social changes since that time have had a profound effect on public-policy planning and service delivery, and this monograph takes a new look at the lingering effects of colonialism and apartheid on South African families, as well as their economic gains. Experts from the fields of demographics, economics, psychology, and sociology report their findings on living arrangements across rural and urban divides; on access to toilets, electricity, water, and housing; on rates of marriage and divorce; on fertility and infant mortality; and on the housework and other chores performed by children.
Author : Osei-Mensah Aborampah,Niara Sudarkasa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1592218121
Author : Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi,Baffour K. Takyi
Publisher : Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0757546285
Examines the notion of family and its deeper meaning in the historical context of the African experience, while explaining the roles that modernization, urbanization, and migration play in the transformation of families in post-colonial Africa.
Author : Sarah Mosoetsa
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781868147861
As poverty and unemployment deepen in contemporary South Africa, the burning question becomes, how do the poor survive? Eating from One Pot provides a compelling answer. Based on intensive fieldwork, it shows how many African households are on the brink of collapse. That they keep going at all can largely be attributed to the struggles of older women against poverty. They are the fulcrum on which household survival turns. This book describes how households in two different areas in KwaZulu-Natal are sites of both stability and conflict. As one of the interviewees put it: ‘We eat from one pot and should always help each other.’ Yet the stability of family networks is becoming fragile because of the enormous burden placed on them by unemployment and unequal power relations. Through careful analysis, the experiences of survival are discussed in relation to the restructuring of the country's welfare and social policies, and the extension of social grants. Mosoetsa argues that these policies shape the livelihoods that people pursue in order to survive under desperate conditions, but fail to address the root causes of poverty and inequality.
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population,Panel on Policy Research and Data Needs to Meet the Challenge of Aging in Africa
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309180092
In sub-Saharan Africa, older people make up a relatively small fraction of the total population and are supported primarily by family and other kinship networks. They have traditionally been viewed as repositories of information and wisdom, and are critical pillars of the community but as the HIV/AIDS pandemic destroys family systems, the elderly increasingly have to deal with the loss of their own support while absorbing the additional responsibilities of caring for their orphaned grandchildren. Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa explores ways to promote U.S. research interests and to augment the sub-Saharan governments' capacity to address the many challenges posed by population aging. Five major themes are explored in the book such as the need for a basic definition of "older person," the need for national governments to invest more in basic research and the coordination of data collection across countries, and the need for improved dialogue between local researchers and policy makers. This book makes three major recommendations: 1) the development of a research agenda 2) enhancing research opportunity and implementation and 3) the translation of research findings.
Author : Charles Edward Wickens Simkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Black people
ISBN : IND:39000001859474