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Council for the Development of
Social Science Research in Africa
Included in the CODESRIA Mission
Statement:
Encourage inter-generational and
gender-sensitive dialogues in the African academy as a further investment of
effort in the promotion of awareness of and capacity in the use of different prospectives for knowledge production;
CODESRIA BULLETIN
Number 1& 2, 2006
Contents / Sommaire
Editorial
1
To My Mother,
Camara Laye3
Making Gains with Women’s Rights: One Step Forward, Two or Three Steps Back,
Amanda Gouws4
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Reflections on Forum ’85,
Mshai S. Mwangola6
Which Way Forward? Gender Theories, Debates and Practice after the Nairobi and Beijing Conferences,
Catherine Wawasi Kitetu8
Declarations upon Declarations:When Shall Women Experience Real Change?,
Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo10
Women, Citizenship and Governance,
Penda Mbow12
Women and the Making of Electoral Substance,
Onalenna Doo Selolwane14
Foregrounding Women’s Agency in Africa’s Democratisation Process,
Jacinta Ndambuki17
Madam President: The Changing Gender Dynamics of African Politics,
Paul Tiyambe Zeleza20
African Women and Ageing: Nairobi, Beijing, and the Implications for African Gender Scholarship
Isabella Aboderin23
Sexuality, African Religio-Cultural Traditions and Modernity: Expanding the Lens,
Ifi Amadiume26
Globalisation of Sex and the Problematics of Gender Identities in Africa: From Human Rights to Women’s Rights to Sexual Freedom,
Babere Kerata Chacha and Kenneth Nyangena29
The Dark Shadow of Masculinities and Women’s Emancipation Agenda,
James Ogola Onyango36
‘Some Women Are Stubborn’: Power, Violence against Women and the Challenges of Religion,
Olutoyin Mejiuni38
Righting the Wrong and Writing the Law in Cameroon: Fumbuen Women Against Fon Simon Vugah II,
Susanna Yene Awasom41
Notes on Transformative Feminism in Tanzania,
Demere Kitunga and Marjorie Mbilinyi46
Legalising Cairo: Prospects and Opportunities for Reproductive Rights in Nigeria,
Nkolika Ijeoma Aniekwu49
Kamiko Wants to Know the Challenges of the Working Woman in Africa,
Jane-Frances Agbu52
Plenty Done, Plenty More to Do: Women’s Involvement in Politics and Decision-making in Uganda,
Jacqueline Asiimwe-Mwesige55
The Education of Girls in Kenya: Looking Back and Still Looking Forward,
Helen Omondi Mondoh & Jedidah Mujidi58
Access to Land in Post-apartheid South Africa: Implications for the South African Black Woman,
Mike A. Yanou61
Gender Equality and Food Security: A Development Myth,
Mirjam de Bruijn63
Engendering Gender Studies in Africa,
Jude Fokwang65
Women Writing Africa,
Alice Macdonald69
And Hens Began to Crow: Young African Women Engage the Public Sphere,
Roseline Achieng’70
The Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women
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