Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Malaŵi Population and Housing Census, 1987: Analytical report
Author: African Families at the Turn of the 21st Century
Author: Baffour K. TakyiPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 031308906X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The institution of family has been central to the well-being of African societies over the years. African families have undergone significant transformation caused by the interplay of indigenous, Arabic/Islamic, and European/Christian cultures. The juxtaposition of these three cultures in the lives of African peoples captures the triple-heritage image of the continent. At the same time, modernization, urbanization, and migration have played and continue to play significant roles in the transformation of families across the continent. While it is true that the traditional family has changed in many ways and that African families are continuously confronted with new challenges, the renowned contributors to this volume recognize that the African family continues to adapt to emerging structural changes. In the new millennium, a host of issues and challenges has emerged, each with the potential to weaken or threaten the survival of the traditional African family. These include the HIV/AIDS pandemic; a growing elderly population; declining governmental support; and economic decay. How the post-colonial family reacts to these threats and challenges has the potential to either maintain or undermine the family's role as a major organizing principle in Africa. The institution of family has been central to the well-being of African societies over the years. African families have undergone significant transformations caused by the interplay of indigenous, Arabic/Islamic, and European/Christian cultures. The juxtaposition of these three cultures in the lives of African peoples captures the triple-heritage image of the continent. At the same time, modernization, urbanization, and migration have played and continue to play a role in the transformation of families across the continent. While it is true that the traditional family has changed in many ways and that African families are continuously confronted with new challenges, the contributors to this volume recognize that the African family has adapted to the emerging structural changes. In the new millennium, a host of issues and challenges have the potential to weaken or threaten the survival of the traditional African family. These include the HIV/AIDS pandemic, which seems to afflict the young and able-bodied; a growing elderly population; declining governmental support; and economic decay. How the post-colonial family reacts to these threats and challenges has the potential to either maintain or undermine the family's role as a major organizing principle in Africa. Profound transitions have occurred in family structure and processes since the post-colonial period. This work points to some of the documented transformations in African family life, including the changing modes of decision-making due to the establishment of a cash crop economy, nuptial patterns, changing maternal roles, an increasing age at marriage and declining fertility, a growing number of households headed by women, an increase in the rate of marital instability and dissolution, and changing patterns of mate selection and family relations.
Malawi Monthly Statistical Bulletin
Author: Population and Housing Census 2008
Author: Malawi. National Statistical OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Malawi monthly statistical bulletin
Author: Malawi. National Statistical OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Malawi
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa c.1900-2000
Author: Rory PilossofPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000394956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This book explores the social and economic development of Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi over the course of the twentieth century. These three countries have long shared and interconnected pasts. All three were drawn into the British Empire at a similar time and the formation of the ill-fated Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland formally linked these countries together for a decade in the mid-twentieth century. This formal political relationship created dynamics that resulted in yet closer economic and social links. After Federation, the economic realities of industry, transport and labour supplies meant that these three countries continued to be intricately interconnected. Yet despite these connected pasts, comparative work on the economic histories of Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, and how these change over time, is rare. This book addresses the gap by providing the first comprehensive collection of labour and census data across the twentieth century for these three countries. The different economic models and performances of these states offer good comparison, allowing researchers to look at different models of development, and how these played out over the long-term. The book provides data on population growth and change, industrial and occupational structure, and the various shifts in what the economically active population did. It will be useful for historians, economists, development studies scholars and non-governmental organisations working on twentieth-century and contemporary southern Africa.
Sacred Spaces and Public Quarrels
Author: Paul Tiyambe ZelezaPublisher: Africa World Press
ISBN: 9780865437074
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
How do Africans conceive space? How are places constructed and imagined? How do the conceptions, constructions, imaginings of spaces and places affect, and in turn are affected by, social, economic and political change. These are some of the questions answered in this, the first book of its kind to address systematically the themes of of space and spatiality.
Population and Housing Census 2008: Analytical report : Mortality
Author: Malawi. National Statistical OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Population and Housing Census 2008: Analytical report : Children and Youth
Author: Malawi. National Statistical OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
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