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Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

Criticism and ideology

Medarbetare: Holst Petersen, Kirsten
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1988
Ämnesord: South Africa, Southern Africa, Literature, African literature, Authors, Ideologies, Conf, literature, Litteraturvetenskap
This book contains contributions from African writers who discuss current issues in African literature, such as the role of the writer in society, the writers commitment to society or to the craft, a new woman's voice in literature, and recent South African literature, superseding the protest tradition.

Refugees and development in Africa

Medarbetare: Nobel, Peter
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1987
Ämnesord: Sudan, Ethiopia, East Africa, Refugees, Migration, Human rights, Legal aspects, Conf, Documents, Development, African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, Political science, Statsvetenskap
This book discusses why refugees flee, how and whether they become integrated, the relations between development assistance and refugee assistance, and the legal status of the refugees. The concept of 'people's rights' is discussed, and the rights to development with special reference to the refugees.

Zambia's policies towards foreign investment : the case of the mining and non-mining sectors

Upphovsperson: Saasa, Oliver S.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1987
Ämnesord: Zambia, Southern Africa, Economic conditions, Dual economy, Mining, Copper industry, Foreign investment, Economic policy, Business and economics, Ekonomi
This study argues that the changes in Zambia's policy towards foreign investors over the years from 1964 to 1985 have been conditioned by objective factors, both internal and external to the Republic and that the influence of ideology appears to be fairly minimal. The economy has remained basically 'mixed' in content despite several institutional and structural re-organizations and foreign investment has, thus, continued to play its pivotal role in the country's economic life.

Why poor children stay sick : the human ecology of child health and welfare in rural Malawi

Upphovspersoner: Lindskog, Per | Lundqvist, Jan
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1989
Ämnesord: Malawi, Southern Africa, Water supply, Water quality, Drinking water, Rural areas, Diarrhoeal diseases, Child health, Human ecology, Human environment, Case study, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Every year four and a half million children under five die in Asia, Latin America, and Africa from diarrhoea, caused by contaminated water. This is one of many reasons why improved drinking water is high on the agenda in many developments projects and plans. But what happens when better water is supplied? What is the impact upon child health? What experiences should be taken into account in the planning and implementation of schemed for better water supply for the African households? This case study of rural area in southern Malawi tries to give some answers.

Farm implements for small-scale farmers in Tanzania

Upphovspersoner: Mothander, Björn | Kjærby, Finn | Havnevik, Kjell
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1989
Ämnesord: Tanzania, East Africa, Farming, Agriculture, Agricultural equipment, Modernization, Small farms, New technology, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This insightful book deals with major issues related to hand- and ox-drawn farm implements for different farming systems and ecological areas in Tanzania. The study is concerned about ways and means to assist and improve critical activities of peasant farming in Tanzania.

Did colonialism capture the peasantry? : a case study of the Karega district, Tanzania

Upphovsperson: Smith, Charles David
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1989
Ämnesord: Kagera, Tanzania, East Africa, Colonialism, Small farms, Peasantry, Modes of production, History, Economic history, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This research report argues that during the colonial period the socially acceptable standard living of the smallholder was fundamentally altered. The operation of the smallhold farm unit changed primarily in six areas. These are: 1) food security and consumer goods; 2) changed relations of production on the smallholder plot; 3) customary law and land tenure; 4) wage labour; 5) social differentiation; 6) the long term price elasticity of coffee production. Smallholders were not completely "captured" and proletarianized but neither did they correspond to Hyden's version of an "uncaptured peasantry". This is primarily because they now required certain goods and services from outside the peasant mode of production as a necessary link in their social reproduction.

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