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This paper examines the strategies applied by elite women in Brazzaville, Congo, to achieve lifelong financial security and independence for themselves and their children. Amongst these strategies are a woman's position in the household and women's ways of...

This paper examines the interaction of agricultural and nonagricultural activities in Mutoko communal area, Mashonaland East Province, Zimbabwe. It looks at three particular issues arising from the interaction of farming households' agricultural and nonagricultural...

This study examines the extent of deagrarianization in North Shoa, one of the most impoverished regions of Ethiopia. It describes the role and trend of farm activities and output, the trends in income diversification and the historical evolution of non-farm activities, and...

Gender, land use and environmental management in developing countries intersect in a complex setting in which culture, economics and politics interfere. This collective volume - the product of a seminar organized in Amsterdam in May 1995 - unravels these complexities. The...

Ce livre est issu du congrès de l'Association des études mandingues tenu les 20-24 mars 1995 à Leiden (Pays-Bas). Contributions: Préface (Jean-Loup Amselle); Peuls et Mandingues: dialectique des constructions identitaires (Mirjam de Bruijn et Han van Dijk); Les rapports...

In pastoral Fulbe society in central Mali women had, and to some degree still have, an important social and economic role, concentrated on a 'milk economy' organized through a female-headed, women-centred unit, called 'fayannde' or 'hearthhold'....

This article examines the position of traditional leaders in postapartheid South Africa. It first surveys changing perspectives of chieftaincy within the ANC and its allied movements. During the apartheid era, chiefs were maligned as puppets of bantustan rule. In ANC-related...