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From the mountains to the plains : the integration of the Lafofa Nuba into Sudanese society

Upphovsperson: Manger, Leif O.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1994
Ämnesord: Nuba, Sudan, Liri region, Sudan, East Africa, Anthropology, Ethnic groups, Traditional culture, Adaptation to change, Cultural integration, Social integration, Agrarian structure, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This study of the Lafofa Nuba in the Sudan is the first comprehensive analysis of a matrilineal Nuba group. The author discusses the ways in which the Lafofa people in the Sudan are affected by centralisation of administration, commercialisation of agriculture, and the influence of Muslim culture. The study is a revision of the author's dissertation in anthropology.

Health and structural adjustment in rural and urban Zimbabwe

Upphovspersoner: Bijlmakers, Leon A. | Basset, Mary T. | Sanders, David M.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1996
Ämnesord: Zimbabwe, Southern Africa, Structural adjustment, Health, Health services, , SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This report attempts to intervene in the discussion on the social effects of structural adjustment through an empirically-based assessment of the impact of the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP) of the Zimbabwean state on the country's health sector. The author's conclude that ESAP has resulted in a serious degradation of the poor in Zimbabwe, and an overall decline in the health status of the working poor, which the Social Dimensions Fund has failed to mitigate.

Enough is enough! For an alternative diagnosis of the African crisis

Upphovsperson: Lopes, Carlos
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1994
Ämnesord: Africa, Economic conditions, Economic reform, Politics, Democratization, Resources mobilization, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
The African crisis is a recurrent theme in all discourse on Africa in the 1990s, in stark contrast with the optimism of the first decades of independence. This discussion paper questions the very description of the state of affairs in Africa, and is written as an African input in the debate on problems and prospects in Africa.

Transforming female identities/Transformation des Identités Feminines : women's organizational forms in West Africa/Formes d'organisations féminines en Afrique de l'Ouest

Medarbetare: Evers Rosander, Eva
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1997
Ämnesord: West Africa, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Cultural identity, Religious groups, Women, Women workers, Women's organizations, Conference papers, Gender, , SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This book examines the significance of the association as platforms for transformation of female identities. Women suffer from male domination and socio-cultural norms and values which deprives them of political power in the community, but do the women's associations work to change this situation for the better or do they confirm and support existing power and gender structures? As some authors are Anglophone and other Francophone, the articles are written either in English with a French abstract or vice versa.

The new local level politics in East Africa : studies on Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya

Upphovspersoner: Kanyinga, Karuti | Gibbon, Peter | Kiondo, Andrew S. Z. | Tidemand, Per
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1994
Ämnesord: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, East Africa, Local government, Political participation, Social structure, Ethnicity, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This research report consists of three studies: Per Tidemand's Ugandan study concentrates on the politics of the new representative local state institutions which emerged in 1986. Andrew Kiondo's Tanzania study focuses on the myriad of local-level non-state institutions which have emerged there in recent years. Karuti Kanyinga examines the phenomenen of local-level competitive party politic in Kenya. His essay also analyses the interactions between local-level and national party politics.

The aid relationship in Zambia : a conflict scenario

Upphovspersoner: Saasa, Oliver S. | Carlsson, Jerker
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1996
Ämnesord: Zambia, Southern Africa, Development aid, Aid evaluation, Development projects, Aid coordination, Development administration, Macroeconomics, Economic conditions, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Does aid work? This book examines this issue. But rather than trying to establish how effective aid has been, the focus is shifted towards to one of the key edterminants of effectiveness - the aid relationship. It looks at the relationship between Zambia and its donors and discusses the likely impact of aid in a country where poverty has become rampant and the international debt has reached unmanageable proportions.

Politics on paper : Finland's South Africa policy 1945-1991

Upphovsperson: Heino, Timo-Erkki
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1992
Ämnesord: South Africa, Southern Africa, Finland, Foreign policy, Sanctions, History, Post war, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
Finland is one of the Nordic countries, whose support for the liberation of South Africa from apartheid has been acclaimed. But Finland has often dragged its feet on South African policies, partly because of a generally cautious foreign policy, partly because of the influence of the paper and the pulp industry. Only an active public opinion mobilisation and trade union actions have moved the Finnish foreign policy establishment into isolation of the apartheid regime. The author has made the first comprehensive study of Finnish policies on South Africa, covering the post-war period. It gives valuable insights not only into the policies on South Africa, but also is well-documented study of how foreign policy is formed in Finland.

Foreign aid in Africa : learning from country experiences

Medarbetare: Carlsson, Jerker | Somolekae, Gloria M. | Van de Walle, Nicolas
Utgivare: Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1997
Ämnesord: Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Mali, West Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, East Africa, Botswana, Zambia, Southern Africa, Development aid, Aid evaluation, Efficiency, Management techniques, Sustainable development, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
This volume reports on the findings of an international research project on aid effectiveness in Africa. Field studies was conducted in Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, Tanzania and Zambia and the findings show that Africa's economic crisis has had a devastating effect on aid effectiveness and that too often donors dominate aid decisions, leaving governments without any sense of ownership over their own development efforts. The conclusion is that aid to Africa will have to develop more effective public institutions that fully take charge of the development process.

Pastoralist perspectives in Nigeria : the Fulbe of Udubo Grazing Reserve

Upphovsperson: Gefu, Jerome O.
Utgivare: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet | Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
År: 1992
Ämnesord: Nigeria, West Africa, Fula, State, Nature reserves, Grazing, Pastoralism, Economic conditions, SOCIAL SCIENCES, SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP
The food and hunger crisis ravaging in many countries in Africa has turned the attention to the production of indigenous livestock. A large part of the African livestock is produced by people who are pastoralists, and any attempt to increase livestock production must be based on an understanding of the pastoralist way of life, and the often unexpected reactions to uniformed government policies. This study covers the Fulbe pastoralists of the Udubo Grazing Reserve in Bauchi state in nothern Nigeria. The author focus is on the description of the livestock systems, and the relationship between the pastoral Fulbe and the government interventions.

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