The Women’S Emancipation Struggle In Senegal During The 1980s And 1990s: The Case Of The “Yewwu-Yewwi” Movement,
2025
Middle Tennessee State University
The Women’S Emancipation Struggle In Senegal During The 1980s And 1990s: The Case Of The “Yewwu-Yewwi” Movement, Aliou Ly
Journal of African Policy Studies
Senegalese women’s socio-cultural and economic status has always been shaped by local customs, religion, and gender structures. During the colonial period, against the backdrop of the opportunity to have a Western education, economic changes and extremely rapid urbanization encouraged Senegalese women to join the political arena in supporting various male political leaders. This trend continued during the post-colonial period, leading to the election of female parliamentarians and women holding high governmental positions in the 1960s and 1970s. The 1980s saw the creation of more vocal and visible women’s organizations such as the Yewwu-Yewwi “Pour la Liberation des Femmes” movement of …
Cover And Table Of Contents,
2025
University of Dayton
Cover And Table Of Contents, Journal Of African Policy Studies
Journal of African Policy Studies
No abstract provided.
Healthcare Policy And Administration In Nigeria: A Critical Analysis,
2025
Fort Valley State University
Healthcare Policy And Administration In Nigeria: A Critical Analysis, Robert A. Dibie
Journal of African Policy Studies
This paper examines the perception of the effectiveness of the healthcare system in Nigeria by citizens and residents of the country. It argues that the Nigerian government needs to adopt a more pragmatic healthcare policy, one that could be more effectively implemented. Unlike the old practice of the Ministry of Health, an innovative approach to healthcare delivery should involve benchmarks, strategic doing, and coordination of priorities, as well as partnerships with various stakeholders from the private sector, including nongovernmental organizations and foreign investors. The paper uses quantitative and qualitative data derived from questionnaire surveys and interviews administered to 3,202 Nigerian …
Africa And Us Foreign Direct Investments In The 21st Century: The Contours Of Global Engagement,
2025
Middle Tennessee State University
Africa And Us Foreign Direct Investments In The 21st Century: The Contours Of Global Engagement, Moses K. Tesi
Journal of African Policy Studies
The focus of this article is to analyze the state of US private investments in Africa, the nature, pattern, and trend of such investments, and various ideas about factors that have either inhibited or accelerated the growth of investment flows to countries in the region. US private investments in Africa were inconsequential from the 1960s to 1990s, but in the 2000s, significant efforts were made by the US government to encourage, promote, and support private US firms to invest in Africa, and efforts were also made by African governments to increase US private investments on the continent. My research shows …
The Rural Development Politics Under Prime Minister K.A. Busia Of Ghana, 1969-1972,
2025
University of Ghana, Legon
The Rural Development Politics Under Prime Minister K.A. Busia Of Ghana, 1969-1972, Kwame Adum-Kyeremeh
Journal of African Policy Studies
This article discusses rural development under the Second Republican government of Ghana. While not directly engaging with the claims of Busia’s unrivalled rural development agenda, this article provides some perspectives as to why the assertions of unqualified success remain popular. Drawing on newspapers and published sources, it discusses the Busia government’s rural development programme and accomplishments, and finds that plans to develop rural Ghana date to several years before the Busia government. By adopting rural development as its flagship programme, Busia directed the government and citizens’ attention towards rapid rural development in the early 1970s. Widespread media publicity has helped …
Women And The Policy Process: Minimum Marriageable Age Policy Adoption In Nigeria,
2025
Florida State University
Women And The Policy Process: Minimum Marriageable Age Policy Adoption In Nigeria, Ene Ekpebe
Journal of African Policy Studies
Nigeria has the eleventh highest incidence of early marriage – marriage before the age of 18 – in the world. This is problematic because early marriage has been shown to have significant health and socioeconomic disadvantages for girls. In 2003, the Child Rights Act (CRA) was adopted by the federal government of Nigeria. One of its provisions was a prohibition of early marriage. As of 2022, 25 of Nigeria’s 36 states had adopted the CRA. However, only 23 have adopted its minimum marriageable age provision without exception. This paper discusses the factors affecting the adoption of the CRA’s minimum marriageable …
Cover And Table Of Contents,
2025
University of Dayton
Cover And Table Of Contents, Journal Of African Policy Studies
Journal of African Policy Studies
No abstract provided.
Full Issue,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Full Issue, Palara Guest Editors
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Negra Cubana Tenía Que Ser. Por Sandra Abd´Allah-Álvarez Ramírez,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Negra Cubana Tenía Que Ser. Por Sandra Abd´Allah-Álvarez Ramírez, Yeniela Cedeño Hechavarría
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Interseccionalidad, Equidad Y Políticas Sociales. Segunda Edición. Coordinado Por María Del Carmen Zabala Argüelles, Geydis Elena Fundora Nevot, Ana Isabel Peñate Leiva,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Interseccionalidad, Equidad Y Políticas Sociales. Segunda Edición. Coordinado Por María Del Carmen Zabala Argüelles, Geydis Elena Fundora Nevot, Ana Isabel Peñate Leiva, Leidys Raisa Castro Silva
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Lourdes Casal Y La Perspectiva Interseccional En Su Sociología. Una Puerta Hacia Los Estudios Cubanos,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Lourdes Casal Y La Perspectiva Interseccional En Su Sociología. Una Puerta Hacia Los Estudios Cubanos, Ana Niria Albo Díaz
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
Lourdes Casal es bastante conocida en el campo de las letras cubanas como una poeta excepcional. En el marco de las relaciones internacionales su nombre también es relevante por su consabida participación tendiendo puentes entre la Cuba revolucionaria y las comunidades de cubanos y cubanas en los Estados Unidos. La creación de la revista Areito y de la Brigada Antonio Maceo son ejemplos contundentes de su labor. Sin embargo, es mucho menos conocida su labor como investigadora social y fundadora de los Estudios Cubanos en los Estados Unidos. De esa labor sobresale el entendimiento de una Cuba diversa cuando mucha …
Author Bios,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Author Bios, Palara Guest Editors
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Emprendimientos Femeninos: Revalorizando La Afro Estética,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Emprendimientos Femeninos: Revalorizando La Afro Estética, Susel Abad Fis
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
El empoderamiento económico de las mujeres significa ser dueñas de sus propios negocios, lograr crecimiento y sostenibilidad, y ocupar los espacios de participación y toma de decisiones en ese ámbito. Sin embargo, el acceso a los recursos y oportunidades de las mujeres para emprender sus iniciativas en la esfera económica siempre ha resultado difícil en Cuba. En el presente artículo tiene como objetivo revelar las experiencias de tres mujeres negras como emprendedoras. Ellas coinciden en el diseño y comercialización de productos cosméticos y estéticos, con un gran impacto sobre todo para las mujeres negras y mestizas cubanas. Esto ha permitido …
El Campo Regla De Osha-Ifá O Santería: Desigualdad Social, Religión Y Redes De Relacionamientos,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
El Campo Regla De Osha-Ifá O Santería: Desigualdad Social, Religión Y Redes De Relacionamientos, Naile Braffo Conde
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
El desarrollo de las prácticas de la Santería en una sociedad compleja y heterogénea, como la cubana; apunta como cada vez más, resulta necesario analizar, desde el enfoque interseccional, las formas de conducirse dentro del referido campo religioso, el uso de las prácticas del mismo y las redes de relaciones que se estructuran para ello. Esta propuesta es parte de los resultados alcanzados, desde un enfoque multimétodos, por una investigación doctoral y tiene como objetivo analizar procesos de diferenciación/desigualdad social que se generan como efecto de las lógicas de funcionamiento de la religión y a partir de la estructuración de …
Time And Wages In Coerced Labor: Black Women’S Legal Agency In Late-19th Century Havana (1880-1886),
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Time And Wages In Coerced Labor: Black Women’S Legal Agency In Late-19th Century Havana (1880-1886), Elena Barattini
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
The critical juncture of slavery abolition in Cuba was marked by independency uprisings, and imperial re-articulations. Within this context, thousands of formerly enslaved men and women coped with renewed forms of coercion, inscribed in the intersection of race and gender. This article focuses on the resourceful use of the law by formerly enslaved women (renamed patrocinadas in 1880) to liberate themselves from the forced apprenticeship known as patronato, enforced alongside the abolition law. An in-depth examination of two files from the Miscelánea de Expedientes fund held at the Cuban National Archive underscores how Black women struggled to secure wages, …
Front Matter,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Front Matter, Palara Guest Editors
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
A Letter From The Guest Editors,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
A Letter From The Guest Editors, Palara Guest Editors
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Ni Mulatas De Rumbo, Ni Negras Lavanderas Ni Feministas: Otra Historia Republicana De Las Afrocubanas,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Ni Mulatas De Rumbo, Ni Negras Lavanderas Ni Feministas: Otra Historia Republicana De Las Afrocubanas, Alejandro L. Fernández Calderón
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
El estudio actual de las narrativas de las afrocubanas representa un área de atención de los Estudios Cubanos desde la teoría del feminismo negro. En sus análisis, mediante la intersección racismo-género-clase reflexionamos sobre las complejidades de las distintas estrategias del pasado empleadas para el reclamo de sus derechos ciudadanos. Las afrodescendientes, más allá del movimiento político y/o feminista, reevaluaron su imagen pública y privada en el entramado del racismo y el machismo de primera mitad del siglo XX. Desde los diarios, revistas y sociedades elevaron sus voces construyendo distintos relatos en pos de su reivindicación social.
Race, Racialization, & Rehabilitation: Intersectional Insights Into The Cuban Revolution’S Campaign To Eliminate Prostitution,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Race, Racialization, & Rehabilitation: Intersectional Insights Into The Cuban Revolution’S Campaign To Eliminate Prostitution, Alyssa Garcia
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Una Lectura De La Vulnerabilidad Social Y De Las Políticas Para Su Atención Desde El Enfoque Interseccional En El Contexto Cubano Actual,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Una Lectura De La Vulnerabilidad Social Y De Las Políticas Para Su Atención Desde El Enfoque Interseccional En El Contexto Cubano Actual, Maria Del Carmen Zabala Arguelles
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
