Author: Working Group on Demographic Effects of Economic a
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: africa, saharan, sub, dynamics, series, population, effects, demographic, economic, reversals
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $33.00
ISBN-10: 0309048982
ISBN-13: 9780309048989
This book examines the effects of economic downturns in recent decades on first marriages, first and second births, and child mortality in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, and Uganda.
Author: Loretta E. Bass
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Keywords: africa, saharan, sub, labor, child
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2004-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1588262863
ISBN-13: 9781588262868
Topics covered in this text include: why study child labour in Africa?; the cultural and historical context; the political economy of children’s work; rural versus urban child labour; the conflict between work and school; and the value of childrens labour.
Author: Robert Dibie
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: africa, saharan, sub, policies, politics
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 2001-11-06
List price: $66.50
ISBN-10: 0761820949
ISBN-13: 9780761820949
This book attempts to correct the impression created by Western media that Sub-Saharan Africa is in a state of anarchy. The text analyzes and shows that while many Sub-Saharan African nations are experiencing the worst time of their history, others are enjoying their best times.
Author: et al Eduard R. Bos (Editor)
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: africa, saharan, sub, mortality, disease
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2006-06-02
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0821363972
ISBN-13: 9780821363973
Current data and trends in morbidity and mortality for the sub-Saharan Region as presented in this new edition reflect the heavy toll that HIV/AIDS has had on health indicators, leading to either a stalling or reversal of the gains made, not just for communicable disorders, but for cancers, as well as mental and neurological disorders.
Author: Louise M. Bourgault
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: africa, saharan, sub, media, mass
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1995-06-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0253312507
ISBN-13: 9780253312501
Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes how historical, political, economic, social, cultural, and stylistic factors have shaped media products in African radio, television, and newspapers. Bourgault investigates three principal influences: the pre-colonial legacy of the oral tradition, the presence of an alienated managerial class, and the domination of African nations by systems based on political patronage. The first two chapters provide the theoretical framework. Subsequent chapters look at the management of the electronic media, radio and television broadcasting in content and practice,
Authors:Robert O. Collins, James M. Burns,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: africa, saharan, sub, history
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2007-02-12
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0521867460
ISBN-13: 9780521867467
In a trawl through the entire sweep of sub-Saharan history, the authors have written an accessible introduction for students and general readers. The opening chapter on geography and climate frames the discussion, demonstrating how the environment has shaped the societies and cultures of those living in the region. Thereafter they describe the rise of states and empires in the classical period, the slave trade within Africa and beyond to the Americas, and the European conquest. The concluding section focuses on Africa in the twentieth century as it gains independence and searches for a new ide
Author: E Adegbija
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: multilingual, matters, africa, saharan, attitude, sub, lang
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 1998-11-12
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1853592390
ISBN-13: 9781853592393
An informative sociolinguistic and sociopolitical description and analysis of language attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa. The book emphasizes the strong ideological and polemical view that multilingualism in sub-Saharan Africa should seen as a resource and an asset. It argues, therefore, that African indigenous languages need to empowered for greater functions to ensure effective mass mobilization, literacy, and total and original self-actualization.
