Pub Date : 2012-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2012.659582
Kevin J A Thomas, Ikubolajeh Logan
This study examines the dynamics of female African immigration and settlement in the United States and discusses the research and policy implications for these processes. It highlights a significant surge in female immigration from African than non-African countries in recent years. This surge is driven by female immigration from Africa's countries most populous countries, from countries affected by civil conflicts, and from English-speaking countries in the region. African women are also more likely to arrive as unmarried single than other female immigrants. In addition, they had the highest prevalence of Bachelors, Masters, or Doctorate degrees among women in the US. African females were also about twice more likely to be enrolled in US Educational institutions compared to other women. Those in the labor force were more likely to work as nursing professionals than in technical occupational groups such as engineering and computing. The study concludes by discussing the research and policy implications of these findings for countries in the developing world.
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Pub Date : 2011-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2011.9707536
Marie-Albane de Suremain
Résumé Malgré l'abolition officielle de l'esclavage par les autorités coloniales en Afrique-Occidentale française (AOF) en 1905, esclaves et différentes situations d'esclavages n'ont pas pour autant disparu en pratique. Leur persistance ne retient pourtant pas l'attention des travaux venus des sciences sociales qui se développent dans une situation de plus grande autonomie par rapport aux pouvoirs coloniaux, surtout depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale grâce à des structures scientifiques comme l'Institut fondamental d'Afrique noire (IFAN). Les travaux ethnologiques ne s'intéressent guère à cette catégorie spécifique au sein des populations étudiées et l'approche historique tend à réduire l'esclavage à une réalité passée. La sociologie paraît, elle, plus soucieuse de montrer la modernité des sociétés africaines. La situation des esclaves est dépeinte sans fard cependant lors d'enquêtes de géographie sur les niveaux de vie, qui permettent d'identifier la condition spécifique qui leur est faite. Mais au moment des indépendances de ces nouveaux Etats, cette thématique n'apparaît cependant pas comme prioritaire.
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Pub Date : 2009-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2010.9707584
C. Broqua
Abstract This article explores the ways in which John Meletse, a young black man who is an openly gay Deaf activist living with HIV, prioritizes some identities over otherswhen telling us about his life. In analyzing this narrative of self, this article explores the ways in which sexual, gender, and "disabled" identities intersect in alternative constructions of masculinity. A close reading of parts of John's biographic narrative allows the article to show rather than tell how his coming to terms with sexual identity is a process. John's videotaped life story, translated from South African Sign Language, was drawn from original interviews that formed part of the results of a SANPADproject onDeaf Culture in South Africa and from subsequent follow-up interviews.
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{"title":"Children of Ham: Freed Slaves and Fugitive Slaves on the Kenya Coast, 1873-1907","authors":"T. Spear, F. Morton","doi":"10.2307/485859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/485859","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2008-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/485859","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69442400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Voyage to Abyssinia","authors":"A. H. Ahmad, S. Johnson","doi":"10.2307/485109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/485109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44599,"journal":{"name":"CANADIAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN STUDIES","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2008-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/485109","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"69399486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2008.10751395
E. Ann Mcdougall
AbstractThe household, if understood in a dynamic multi-status, multi-generational, multi-cultural, “gendered” way, can provide a conceptual framework for reinterpreting practices, processes, and patterns of Islamization in Africa. This framework contrasts with the one privileged in literature that focuses on the agency of traders, clerics and chiefs in public institutions. It reminds us that they “lived Islam” next to their mothers, wives, sisters, and slaves in households. This preliminary exploration of women and slaves usually seen as marginal to Islamization is intended to challenge extant perceptions: women and slaves were not only “recipients” of Islam but its agents. In their households, they shaped how Islam was lived by all around them. So instead of looking only at the history of more public Islamic people and places, addressing attention to the household and its changing nature over time may allow us to see a different face of Islam and different process of Islamization.
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Pub Date : 2008-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2008.10751378
E. Ann Mcdougall
Abstract This volume draws principally on presentations from two African Studies Association meetings (2003, 2004) that celebrated Nehemia Levtzion’s contributions to the field of Islam in Africa and reminisced about our collective personal interactions with him. It is enriched by additional papers from former students, colleagues and friends (usually one and the same), as well as from contemporary young scholars just beginning to “know” Levtzion through his legacy. The “Epilogue” gives a final, posthumous word to Levtzion himself, in an article looking at the contemporary role of fundamentalism from the perspective of an historian who spent his life engaged in the history of Islam at its Middle Eastern and African crossroads. The following pages are meant not only to pay homage to Nehemia Levtzion but also to reflect critically, to push boundaries, and to introduce Africanist scholars, engaged in other areas of study and new generations of Africanist scholars in this field, to Levtzion’s role in shaping how we have come to understand the experience of Islam in Africa.
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2007.11434725
A. Goebel
AbstractThis article draws on interviews with women resettlement farmers in Wedza District, Zimbabwe, to trace changes in livelihood strategies and gender relations from 2000 to 2006. The research indicates a shrinking number of viable options for livelihoods, and the severe erosion of formerly critical activities. Thewomen interviewed see increases inmarital discord and collapse, with implications for family formation, social order, and survival. The article explores the linkages between changing livelihoods and gender relations, focusing especially on marriage in relation to agriculture and land issues, gendered incomes, sexuality, AIDS orphans and other effects of HIV/AIDS. Within this overall difficult context, the enduring ethic of caring and the buffering effects of people’s access to arable land and other natural resources are apparent. Throughout, the article discusses the theoretical implications of the research, participating in debates about regional conditions and theoretical understandings of...
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2007.11434726
P. Kea
AbstractThis article examines the intensification of Gambian girls’ domestic and farm labour contributions as a result of the introduction of double-shift schooling. Drawing on fieldwork among female farmers and their daughters in Brikama the article puts forth the following arguments: doubleshift schooling facilitates the intensification and increased appropriation of surplus value from girls’ household and farm labour because girls are more readily able to meet gendered labour obligations that are central to the moral economy of the household and to the demands of agrarian production; secondly, double-shift schooling highlights the paradoxical nature of development intervention where, on the one hand, legislation and policy call for a reduction in child labour by increasing access to school and, on the other, neo-liberal educational policy serves to facilitate the intensification of girls’ domestic and farm labour. This paper maintains that the intensification of girls’ workmust be placed within a wider...
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Pub Date : 2007-01-01DOI: 10.1080/00083968.2007.11434727
Ghislaine Lydon
ResumeSelon les archives du tribunalmusulman de Saint-Louis du Senegal, fonde en 1857, cet article s’interesse au cas des femmes qui etaient les plus nombreuses a recourir a la mediation des juges musulmans au sein de cette institution judiciaire. A partir d’une analyse des droits de la femme en matiere de divorce, nous examinons l’application du droit islamique au sein du Tribunal Musulman. Nous nous interrogerons tout particulierement sur la politique judiciairemusulmane des cadis de Ndar en ce qui concerne le code familial et les droits de la femme. Mais, en premier lieu, nous abordons les peripeties du TribunalMusulman, qui fut la toute premiere institution judiciaire publique en Afrique de l’ouest francophone.
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