{"title":"Beyond wifehood : harnessing local gender ideologies to inform public health interventions in Africa","authors":"C. Undie, C. Izugbara","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2020/9n1a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2020/9n1a1","url":null,"abstract":"Public health discourse surrounding women in Africa has yet to benefit from longstanding, rigorous problematizations and theorizations of gender in African settings. In a word, the African woman, from the public health perspective, is still primarily a ‘wife’. Yet, targeting women solely as wives obscures the other important and varied positions which women in Africa occupy and limits the opportunities available for addressing their myriad health issues. We draw on data emerging from our years of ethnographic work among the Ubang community in Obudu, Cross River State, Southeast Nigeria, examining indigenous/local gender constructions and the attendant implications for women’s decision-making and action related to illness. We conclude by advancing a new public health approach to women in African contexts, and by demonstrating that in engaging with women exclusively as wives, public health JOURNAL OF GENDER, INFORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA (JGIDA) ISBN: 2050-4276 (Print) ISSN: 2050-4284 (Online) Indexed by IBSS, EBSCO, COPERNICUS, ProQuest and Sabinet","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129488490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A critical analysis of teaching English in English as a lingua franca context : a case study of Lesotho","authors":"Lelingoana Lerotholi","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123146886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mediating coalition politics at the local government level in South Africa, 2016-2019","authors":"G. Bradshaw, N. Breakfast","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125367096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing payment for municipal services through communication dynamics and emerging innovation options","authors":"P. Enwereji, D. Uwizeyimana","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132584491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of innovation in the manufacturing sector on the employment rate at Sappi, Umkomaas plant : a critique of employability in Africa","authors":"Kusasulihle Sithole, Ukzn","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129659210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principals’ leadership roles in transforming school culture for quality education in urban secondary schools in Ethiopia","authors":"Amanuel Eromo Adillo, T. Netshitangani","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114599650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative learning in the Fourth Industrial Revolution : implications for an African Renaissance","authors":"A. Adefila, Pravina Pillay","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121899622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospects for the future role of ex-combatants in the Zimbabwean nationalist politics or is it the end of the era?","authors":"D. Mangani, N. Raselekoane, L. Gwatimba","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a13","url":null,"abstract":"In October 1975 a group of radical and young military guerrillas of Zimbabwe People’s Army (ZIPA) stationed at the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army’s (ZANLA) training camp at Mgagao, in Tanzania convened and issued a communique. The communique that is now commonly referred to as the ‘Mgagao Declaration’ not only elevated the rise of Robert Mugabe to the echelons of power but also helped in the construction of a symbiotic relationship between the former and ex-combatants of the struggle for Zimbabwe. In postindependence Zimbabwe, this relationship took on various forms-the unwillingness of the government to provide the necessary human security mechanisms to ex-combatants and the instrumental use of these former military guerillas in the promulgation of exclusive and patriotic political trajectories. It was not until the 1990s and 2000s that these ex-combatants became actively involved in politics in defending the Mugabe led regime. Their involvement in politics has evolved around what scholars term ‘politics of belonging’ whose tenets speak to the need to seek political, economic and ideological recognition from the government and society. In the process, these ex-combatants secured ZANU-PF lifeline only to end in a post2013 era where the future of these vanguards of the struggle hangs in the balance as the ruling ZANU-PF focuses on the youth to carry the Third Chimurenga forward.Keywords: ZANU-PF, Ex-combatants, Mgagao Declaration, Third Chimurenga, Political capital, politics of belonging, nationalist politics.","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"9 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120862772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic effects of drought within family settings : the case of Masvingo, Zimbabwe (from 2000 to 2016)","authors":"F. Takayindisa","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127110706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental legislations, oil-based violence and justice in the Nigeria’s Niger-Delta region","authors":"Kelvin Bribena","doi":"10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31920/2050-4284/2019/sin2a6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":187105,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Gender, Information and Development in Africa","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126479137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}