{"title":"Social gender inequality and the gender gap in the classroom: evidence from Southern and Eastern Africa","authors":"Sayaka Usui, Benjamin K. Blevins, Keisuke Kawata","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2375658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2375658","url":null,"abstract":"The gender gap in education is not limited to the subject of mathematics or only to be found in high-income countries, and its repercussions can have generational consequences. Previous literature ...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142185101","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":"Participatory evaluation of Sustainable Community Development Parameters in SHELL’S Global Memorandum of Understanding model in the Niger Delta","authors":"Igazeuma Adikema Okoroba, Jackson Tamunosaki Jack","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2365670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2365670","url":null,"abstract":"International Oil Companies (IOCs) are increasingly becoming key development actors in communities where they operate. This is becoming the norm as IOCs come to the realisation that their contribut...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141769578","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 viability of the welfare state in Botswana: a Gramscian response to Botlhale and Molokwane","authors":"Kebapetse Lotshwao","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2367255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2367255","url":null,"abstract":"This short piece is a Gramscian inspired response to Emmanual Botlhale and Thekiso Molokwane’s article entitled “The viability of the welfare state in Botswana”. Contrary to Botlhale and Molokwane’...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141614943","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":"How migrant remittances respond to homeland crises: the case of Cabo Verde and its emigrants","authors":"João Resende-Santos","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2365666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2365666","url":null,"abstract":"Many countries rely on the cash and non-cash remittances their migrants abroad send back. But do migrants increase or decrease these remittances in times of socioeconomic crises back home? This stu...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613226","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 man’s gift will make room for him’: sources of wealth and legitimacy in charismatic Christianity in Ghana","authors":"Karen Lauterbach","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2341621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2341621","url":null,"abstract":"The moral practices and principles of accumulating and (re)distributing wealth in charismatic Christianity in Africa are controversial and contested. In Ghana, rich charismatic pastors are perceive...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"61 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141530175","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":"Social media regulation in Uganda: the dilemma of laxity and conformity to international norms","authors":"Winyi Solomon, Omach Paul, Sabiti Makara","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2341619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2341619","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of social media use has resulted in the quest for standards and norms relating to internet governance. Uganda has gradually instituted laws, occasionally shut down the internet an...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141550240","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":"Determinants of housing and environmental conditions in a medium-sized city in Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria","authors":"Oluwasinaayomi Faith Kasim, Charles Olufisayo Olatubara, Olusiyi Ipingbemi, Olaitan Olutayo Odunola, Olayide Josiah Omirin, Saeed Kamaldeen Ojolowo, Abiodun Akeem Audu","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2319788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2319788","url":null,"abstract":"The study examined the factors influencing housing and its environmental conditions as well as the relationships between residential building types and their environmental conditions in Inisa, Sout...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140601296","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}
Folasade Rotimi, Solomon Olubiyo, Mure Agbonlahor, Stephen Adeogun
{"title":"Determinants of loan repayment among agricultural beneficiaries of public funded credit scheme in Ekiti State, Nigeria","authors":"Folasade Rotimi, Solomon Olubiyo, Mure Agbonlahor, Stephen Adeogun","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2320763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2320763","url":null,"abstract":"To cater for the credit needs of the farming population, the Ekiti State Government established Ekiti State Multipurpose Credit Agency (ESMA). This study examined the factors influencing repayment ...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140298992","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":"How gender and political ideology impact women-focused aid to sub-Saharan Africa","authors":"Eugene Emeka Dim","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2320770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2320770","url":null,"abstract":"Foreign aid plays a critical role in actualising pro-women outcomes in the Global South. However, there is a paucity of research on how gender and political ideology inform gender-oriented foreign ...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140147861","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":"Navigating conflicting moral temporalities: gradual growth, state sovereignty and small-scale trade in urban Ghana","authors":"Ulrik Jennische","doi":"10.1080/02589001.2024.2320761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2320761","url":null,"abstract":"This article delves into the moral economy that informs small-scale trade in urban Ghana's growing markets, and that intersects with development, the state, and the global economy. Small-small, emp...","PeriodicalId":51744,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contemporary African Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140148011","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}