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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

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	Editorial	1
	To My Mother, Camara Laye	3
	Making Gains with Women’s Rights: One Step Forward, Two or Three Steps Back, Amanda Gouws	4
	Looking Back, Moving Forward: Reflections on Forum ’85, Mshai S. Mwangola	6
	Which Way Forward? Gender Theories, Debates and Practice after the Nairobi and Beijing Conferences, Catherine Wawasi Kitetu	8
	Declarations upon Declarations:When Shall Women Experience Real Change?, Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo	10
	Women, Citizenship and Governance, Penda Mbow	12
	Women and the Making of Electoral Substance, Onalenna Doo Selolwane	14
	Foregrounding Women’s Agency in Africa’s Democratisation Process, Jacinta Ndambuki	17
	Madam President: The Changing Gender Dynamics of African Politics, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza	20
	African Women and Ageing: Nairobi, Beijing, and the Implications for African Gender Scholarship Isabella Aboderin	23
	Sexuality, African Religio-Cultural Traditions and Modernity: Expanding the Lens, Ifi Amadiume	26
	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 Nyangena	29
	The Dark Shadow of Masculinities and Women’s Emancipation Agenda, James Ogola Onyango	36
	‘Some Women Are Stubborn’: Power, Violence against Women and the Challenges of Religion, Olutoyin Mejiuni	38
	Righting the Wrong and Writing the Law in Cameroon: Fumbuen Women Against Fon Simon Vugah II, Susanna Yene Awasom	41
	Notes on Transformative Feminism in Tanzania, Demere Kitunga and Marjorie Mbilinyi	46
	Legalising Cairo: Prospects and Opportunities for Reproductive Rights in Nigeria, Nkolika Ijeoma Aniekwu	49
	Kamiko Wants to Know the Challenges of the Working Woman in Africa, Jane-Frances Agbu	52
	Plenty Done, Plenty More to Do: Women’s Involvement in Politics and Decision-making in Uganda, Jacqueline Asiimwe-Mwesige	55
	The Education of Girls in Kenya: Looking Back and Still Looking Forward, Helen Omondi Mondoh & Jedidah Mujidi	58
	Access to Land in Post-apartheid South Africa: Implications for the South African Black Woman, Mike A. Yanou	61
	Gender Equality and Food Security: A Development Myth, Mirjam de Bruijn	63
	Engendering Gender Studies in Africa, Jude Fokwang	65
	Women Writing Africa, Alice Macdonald	69
	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	75

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