Author: Twinkle Suri
Publisher:
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Category : African fiction (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Author: Johanna Bond
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Voices of African Women is a collection of essays by accomplished women's rights lawyers from Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. In the last decade, women's human rights have been the focus of significant attention at the international level. There remains, however, a dearth of information concerning the application and relevance of international norms at grassroots levels within Africa. There are few works about women's human rights within Africa that are actually written by African women lawyers and human rights activists. This book offers a glimpse into the lives of women in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania; it describes -- in their own words -- the challenges these activists face in implementing international human rights norms at the local and national levels. "The contributors are a unique set of talented analysts... Introductions for each chapter are by Johanna Bond, whose precise summaries and analyses of the topics systematize what would otherwise be repetitive evidence found in similar circumstances in these African countries. Summing Up: Recommended." -- CHOICE Magazine, November 2005 "The book is well worth space on...professionals' bookshelves." -- African Studies Association, 2006 "The book is useful and essential reading for anyone interested in women's rights in Africa. This has to be the most detailed and up-to-date book on women's rights in this region." -- Modern African Studies

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ISBN: 9781558760486
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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ISBN: 9781558760486
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Author: Aissata G. Sidikou
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253356709
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Aissata G. Sidikou and Thomas A. Hale reveal the world of women's songs and singing in West Africa. This anthology—collected from 17 ethnic traditions across West Africa—introduces the power and beauty of the intimate expressions of African women. The songs, many translated here for the first time, reflect all stages of the life cycle and all walks of life. They entertain, give comfort and encouragement, and empower other women to face the challenges imposed on them by their families, men, and society. Women's Voices from West Africa opens a new window on women's changing roles in contemporary Africa.

Author: Amina Mama
Publisher:
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Category : Feminism
Languages : en
Pages : 5

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Author: Lidwien Kapteijns
Publisher: Greenwood
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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By gathering Somali oral texts, sayings, and songs of the period 1899 the author has examined in what way women and gender relations in Somali society has been presented in the past and how concepts as 'tradition', authentic cultural heritage and identity affect women and gender relations nowadays.

Author: Gertrude Fester
Publisher:
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Category : Women authors, Black
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Judith Abwunza
Publisher: University of Toronto PressHigher education
ISBN: 9781442601147
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Judith Abwunza provides in this ethnography both the fruit of her research into the lives of Logoli women of Western Kenya and substantial transcripts giving the women's own description and analysis of their situation.

Author: Judith Mae Abwunza
Publisher:
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Category : Patriarchy
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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