Technology, Gender and Power in Africa
This book explores the ways in which women in Africa utilize Information and Communication Technologies to facilitate their empowerment; whether through the mobile village phone business, through internet use, or through new career and ICT ...
Taken together, the book's chapters problematize existing hypotheses regarding women in political power, drawing on understudied countries and variety of empirical methods.
Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa
This collection of articles from Gender and Development considers technologies of many kinds, including those intended to save womens labour, to enable them to control their fertility and to learn and communicate using computer technology.
This book, through its discussion of the challenges, achievements and lessons learned in efforts to attain gender equality, sheds light on these important issues.
In North America, the likes of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods, and Barack Obama have risen high above their peers in their spheres of influence. The recent story of former football ...
This book brings together conceptual debates on the impact of youth-hood and gender on state building in Africa.
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African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s.
Children's schooling in sub-Saharan Africa: The role of father, mothers and others. Population Development Review 22[2]: ... Frameworks for understanding intergenerational transmission of poverty and well-being in developing countries.