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- Date Issued:
- 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Critical Arts
- Description:
- Review of Louis Burke's film "Follow that rainbow"
- Date Issued:
- 1980-03-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Critical Arts
- Description:
- Tanzania's social policy is characterised by three dominant regimes, although with some overlapping elements of selectivism and universalism. It is shown that the process of social policy formulation can be initiated by technocrats, or task forces at ministerial level. However, the process is long and cumbersome. The country lacks a comprehensive national social policy but has instead sectoral social policies. Implementing agents are communities, NGOs, and government institutions while the implementation process is top-down. The main funders of social policy include government, donors, NGOs, individuals and religious institutions. Tanzania's social policy research capacity is very weak. There is no institutionalised social policy research and consequently there is a need to strengthen social policy research capacity.
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Review of: John W. Warnock. The politics of hunger. London: Methuen, 1987
- Date Issued:
- 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- The paper undertakes a re-interpretation of the problem of internal conflicts and civil wars in Africa, from the perspective of citizenship and rights. The central argument is that although the genealogy and dimensions of conflicts and civil wars in Africa are quite complex and varied, however, underlying most of those conflicts, especially those that erupted within the last decade, is the issue of citizenship and rights. The construction and nature of the state in Africa, which is rooted in the colonial pedigree, tend towards the institutionalization of ethnic entitlements, rights and privileges, which creates differentiated and unequal status of citizenship. This tendency de-individualizes citizenship and makes it more of a group phenomenon. As such, rather the state providing a common bond for the people through the tie of citizenship, with equal rights, privileges and obligations, both in precepts and practice, people's loyalties are bifurcated. The result is usually tensions and contradictions in the public sphere as claims of marginalization, exclusion and domination among individuals and groups are rife. The consequence is mostly conflicts and civil wars in Africa.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-12-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- African Journal of Political Science
- Date Issued:
- 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review
- Description:
- A central issue in nutrition and health of children is maternal education. In Nigeria, as in many other African countries, the state ofeducaiton of women is very deplorable. In the rural areas, where traditonal values and norms are very strict, women feel relatively disenfranchised and powerless in pursuing their educational and other personal needs and goals. In addition to traditional restrictions, they suffer from religious moratorium of some sort, in their efforts to meet their social needs. Under these conditons most rural women remain predominantly ignorant, in a social revolutinary sense, thus lacking in both positive aggression and self-esteem. The authors emphasized the deliterious effects which poor maternal education and illiteracy would have on childbearing. In particualr, since a child's physical and mental well-being depend greatly on the maternal skill of nurturance and knowledge about healthful living, children of uneducated and illiterate mothers are more likely to experience greater vulnerability to diseases. Suggestions for the prevention and alleviation of maternal educational impoverishment are included for policy implementation.
- Date Issued:
- 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review (New Series)
- Description:
- Why do people have children, or what values do they assign to having children and how does the value assigned to children reflect in the ways they are socialized? These are the two main questions this paper discusses from a theoretical point of view and as basis for generating hypotheses to be tested out within the Ghanaian cultural setting. The paper draws upon ideas emerging from an ongoing research project - Value of children (VOC) - which was initiated about 30 years ago in nine countries and is currently being replicated in some nine different countries. Of concern in the VOC-project is that African countries were neither included in the original studies, nor in the on-going replication studies. This is not to suggest that the issues addressed by the VOC-studies are of no relevance to Africa. On the contrary, problems of rapid population increase growth / in the presence of stagnant economies plus the burden of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Sahara Africa make Africa an ideal site to undertake such a study. 'The primary aim of this paper is therefore to raise some of the concerns about the implications of the VOC-study findings for Africa and in particular for Ghana, and perhaps more importantly to initiate a similar study in Ghana. To elucidate the relevance of VOC for Ghana, the paper examines some of the changes globalization has bought in Ghana and links these to fertility behavior and child-rearing practices.
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Glendora Review