Reported intimate partner violence amongst women attending a public hospital …
Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is common worldwide and occurs across social, economic, religious and cultural groups. This makes it an important public health issue for health care p…
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Exploring community support on safe motherhood: A case of Lilongwe District, …
Background: Malawi is grappling with a high maternal mortality of 439 per 100 000 live births. It is estimated that 80% of maternal deaths can be prevented by actively engaging the community in t…
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A qualitative study on coping strategies of young women living with breast ca…
Aim This study sought to identify ways of coping with breast cancer diagnosis and its treatment challenges among young Ghanaian women living in the Accra metropolis. Methodology The study used…
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‘A proper woman, in the African tradition’: The construction of gender an…
This article discusses how Wangari Maathai’s life experiences narrated in her autobiography Unbowed offers an opportunity for discussing the contradictions surrounding the perception, place and i…
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Models in the construction of female identity in Nigerian postcolonial litera…
Gendered identity in Africa has for centuries been a hotbed of ideological and narrative contestations. While colonial constructions of the African female were generally essentialist and negative i…
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Figures of pedagogy in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes and Buchi Emecheta’s Doubl…
Writers and critics of women emancipation have lifted and advanced the struggle to another phase. The last decade has witnessed feminist writing from female disparagement, subjugation, women as vic…
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Redefining otherness: Writing fictional (auto)biography and centring female s…
This study seeks to examine how the Nigerian female writer Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo redefines otherness in Children of the Eagle by exploring the narrative elements of the sub-genre of fictional auto…
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La femme et le mariage: du mot à l’image—Xala d’Ousmane Sembene
Published as a novel in 1973 and released as a film in 1974, Ousmane Sembene’s Xala offers his readers as well as his audience the most detailed display of one of his prominent themes: the role o…
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The Maputo Protocol and the Eradication of the Cultural Woes of African Women…
The Maputo Protocol is an African human rights instrument that seeks to protect African women and girls from the negative effects of cultural woes. Hence, this Protocol has been hailed as an Africa…
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Gender Equality and Labour Law: Protecting Working Mothers, Girls and Female …
Labour law in Tanzania, deriving their legitimacy from the Constitution of the United Republic of Tanzania 1977 which prohibits gender based discrimination and guarantees equality between men and w…
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