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The Autonomy Of Ugandan Women’S Organizations: How It Matters In Creating And Maintaining A Dependable Democracy, Caroline Tushabe
The Autonomy Of Ugandan Women’S Organizations: How It Matters In Creating And Maintaining A Dependable Democracy, Caroline Tushabe
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
For African nations “independence” from colonial rule seemed a long-awaited time that would re-establish and/ or introduce democracy. In 1962 Uganda embraced “independence” from colonial rule with both arms. However, practices of poor governance, increased political instability and economic uncertainties slowly and steadily eroded women’s hard work which sustained the nation during the regimes of Idi Amin (1971-79) and Obote II (1980-84). When Uganda finally returned to democratic systems of government, quotas were reserved for women without any acknowledgement of women’s previous participation both in private and public spaces. Though there are now more women in government positions, the system …
Drawing From The Wells Of Culture: Grace Onyango And The Kenyan Political Scene (1964-1983), Phoebe Musandu
Drawing From The Wells Of Culture: Grace Onyango And The Kenyan Political Scene (1964-1983), Phoebe Musandu
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This paper examines the career of Grace Onyango in a bid to recover the history of independent Kenya’s most prominent female politician. To find success as a politician, Onyango had to have an understanding of the interplay between her ethnic culture, the cultures of those with whom she interacted as well as the dynamics of newly independent Kenya’s local and national politics.
Accessing Housing Finance In South Africa: The Role Of Women Activism, Catherine Ndinda, Ufo Okeke-Uzodike
Accessing Housing Finance In South Africa: The Role Of Women Activism, Catherine Ndinda, Ufo Okeke-Uzodike
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Women’s history in South Africa is replete with examples of exclusion, discrimination, and marginalization. The transition to democracy in 1994 and inclusion of gender equality in the post-apartheid constitution in 1996 were seen as steps in the right direction towards addressing women’s oppression and creating gender equity in accessing housing finance. The subsequent formulation of policies and institutions meant to achieve gender equality put women’s concerns in the public domain. However women’s access to capital and housing finance in particular remain challenges in accessing improved housing. An exploration of women’s position with regard to housing finance points to the ways …
Gender And Ethnicity In Banda’S Malawi, Edwin Segal
Gender And Ethnicity In Banda’S Malawi, Edwin Segal
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
During his thirty year reign in Malawi Kamuzu Banda built a state mythology and ideology of development based on constructions of gender and ethnicity that promised no future and little economic change for the majority of the population. The social structures that were established created patterns and processes that continue, a decade after Banda’s death, to organize social and cultural life.
When Tragedy Hits: A Concise Socio-Cultural Analysis Of Sex Trafficking Of Young Iranian Women, Sholeh Shahroki
When Tragedy Hits: A Concise Socio-Cultural Analysis Of Sex Trafficking Of Young Iranian Women, Sholeh Shahroki
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
In this paper, I focus predominantly on the cultural context of sex trafficking of young Iranian women into the underground markets of the Persian Gulf region. Neither human trafficking nor sex trade is a modern trait. While these age-old practices have been the subject of protest by the moralists and the liberal feminists alike, rarely does the discourse of eradication of human trafficking and the restoration of the abject bodies include a remedy to revise the local and common gendered belief that allows for these informal economies to proliferate. New trends of sex-trade in the Gulf region have emerged out …