Pub Date : 2024-08-20DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2024.2375658
Sayaka Usui, Benjamin K. Blevins, Keisuke Kawata
The gender gap in education is not limited to the subject of mathematics or only to be found in high-income countries, and its repercussions can have generational consequences. Previous literature ...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2024.2365670
Igazeuma Adikema Okoroba, Jackson Tamunosaki Jack
International Oil Companies (IOCs) are increasingly becoming key development actors in communities where they operate. This is becoming the norm as IOCs come to the realisation that their contribut...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-05DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2024.2367255
Kebapetse Lotshwao
This short piece is a Gramscian inspired response to Emmanual Botlhale and Thekiso Molokwane’s article entitled “The viability of the welfare state in Botswana”. Contrary to Botlhale and Molokwane’...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2024.2365666
João Resende-Santos
Many countries rely on the cash and non-cash remittances their migrants abroad send back. But do migrants increase or decrease these remittances in times of socioeconomic crises back home? This stu...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-20DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2024.2341621
Karen Lauterbach
The moral practices and principles of accumulating and (re)distributing wealth in charismatic Christianity in Africa are controversial and contested. In Ghana, rich charismatic pastors are perceive...
{"title":"‘A man’s gift will make room for him’: sources of wealth and legitimacy in charismatic Christianity in Ghana","authors":"Karen Lauterbach","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2341621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2341621","url":null,"abstract":"The moral practices and principles of accumulating and (re)distributing wealth in charismatic Christianity in Africa are controversial and contested. In Ghana, rich charismatic pastors are perceive...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530175","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 : 2024-06-05DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2024.2341619
Winyi Solomon, Omach Paul, Sabiti Makara
The proliferation of social media use has resulted in the quest for standards and norms relating to internet governance. Uganda has gradually instituted laws, occasionally shut down the internet an...
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The study examined the factors influencing housing and its environmental conditions as well as the relationships between residential building types and their environmental conditions in Inisa, Sout...
{"title":"Determinants of housing and environmental conditions in a medium-sized city in Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria","authors":"Oluwasinaayomi Faith Kasim, Charles Olufisayo Olatubara, Olusiyi Ipingbemi, Olaitan Olutayo Odunola, Olayide Josiah Omirin, Saeed Kamaldeen Ojolowo, Abiodun Akeem Audu","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2319788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2319788","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined the factors influencing housing and its environmental conditions as well as the relationships between residential building types and their environmental conditions in Inisa, Sout...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140601296","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 : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2024.2320763
Folasade Rotimi, Solomon Olubiyo, Mure Agbonlahor, Stephen Adeogun
To cater for the credit needs of the farming population, the Ekiti State Government established Ekiti State Multipurpose Credit Agency (ESMA). This study examined the factors influencing repayment ...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2024.2320770
Eugene Emeka Dim
Foreign aid plays a critical role in actualising pro-women outcomes in the Global South. However, there is a paucity of research on how gender and political ideology inform gender-oriented foreign ...
{"title":"How gender and political ideology impact women-focused aid to sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Eugene Emeka Dim","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2320770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2320770","url":null,"abstract":"Foreign aid plays a critical role in actualising pro-women outcomes in the Global South. However, there is a paucity of research on how gender and political ideology inform gender-oriented foreign ...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147861","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 : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2024.2320761
Ulrik Jennische
This article delves into the moral economy that informs small-scale trade in urban Ghana's growing markets, and that intersects with development, the state, and the global economy. Small-small, emp...
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