Edited by Tade Akin Aina, Chachage Seithy L. Chachage and
Elizabeth Annan-Yao
Published 2004; viii+339 pages; ISBN 2-86978-130-X
Globalization and Social Policy in Africa examines the different
areas of significant contact between globalization and the lives
of ordinary people in Africa.
Through contributions that rely mainly on empirical and
historical studies, the 17 authors from all parts of Africa and
across a variety of social science disciplines attempt to
provide answers as to how Africans understand, confront and
relate to the forces of globalization. The authors also address
how contemporary and historical dynamics have shaped the way
globalization has interacted with and defined the often
neglected area of social policy.
The studies engage and question current dominant orthodoxies on
the importance of social policy for development and social
transformation, showing in particular how dominant economic
thinking, particularly those emanating from important
multilateral institutions, has contributed to undermining the
importance of social policy to relevant economic development and
social change. With the increasing shift towards a greater
understanding of how conventional economic orthodoxies have
undermined the development process in Africa in recent decades,
this book is a welcome addition to the debate that provides the
much needed evidence that is absent in many other contributions.
Tade Akin Aina is Professor of
Sociology and formerly Deputy Executive Secretary (Publications)
at CODESRIA. He taught at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, and
he is currently the Regional Representative, the Ford
Foundation, Office for Eastern Africa. His publications include
Health, Habitat and Development (London: IIED, 1986), The
Challenge of Sustainable Development in Nigeria, co-edited with
Ademola Salau (Ibadan: NEST, 1990), Child Development and
Nutrition in Nigeria, co-edited with M.F. Zeitlin and F.E. Etta
(Lagos: UNICEF, 1992), The Experience of Migration in Africa,
co-edited with Jonathan Baker (Uppsala: NAI), Globalization and
Social Policy in Africa: Issues and Research Directions (Dakar:
CODESRIA, 1997).
Chachage S.L. Chachage is currently Professor and head of
department of Sociology at the University of Dar es Salaam,
where he has served as Associate Dean (Research and
Publications). Professor Chachage has also taught at the
University of Cape Town, held many positions of distinction and
served on the editorial boards of several journals. He has
published extensively on Sociology, and is a well renowned
Swahili language novelist.
Elizabeth Annan-Yao is currently Professor of Sociology at the
University of Cocody-Abidjan, Deputy Director of Research at the
Institute of Ethno-Sociology of the same university, and
co-edits the African Sociological Review. She is specialized in
Population and Development with emphasis on Migrations,
Reproductive Health and Education.
2004; ISBN 2-86978-130-X £14.95 /$20.95
Contents
Part I: Economic and Regional Trends
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Chapter 2:
Economic Globalization, Market Reforms and Social Welfare
Services in West Africa, Said
Adejumobi
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Chapter 3:
Globalization and the South African Transformation: The
Impact on Social Policy, Zine Magubane
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Chapter 4:
Globalization and Social Ambivalence in the Maghreb,
Hakim Ben Hammouda
Part II: Poverty and Social
Services Provision
- Chapter 5:
Global and Local Factors and the Welfare of the Poor in
Ethiopia: 1974-1997, Dejene Aredo
- Chapter 6:
Economic Reforms and Social Policies in Senegal,
Alfred Inis Ndiaye
- Chapter 7:
Urban Development Policies and Infrastructures in
Nigeria, Mohammed Bello Yunusa
Part III: Globalization, Women's
Work and Citizenship
- Chapter 8:
Globalization, Women's Work Intensity and Household Well-Being
in Nigeria Chukwuemeka U. Okoye &
Uzoma O. Okoye
- Chapter 9:
The Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) and Urban Poverty
Among Wage Earners in South-Eastern
Nigeria, Anugwom Edlyne
- Chapter 10:
Globalization and Refugee Policy in Africa: Reflexions
on Contemporary Humanitarianism,
Okechukwu Ibeanu
Part IV: Higher Education and
Globalization
- Chapter 11:
Higher Education Transformation and Academic
Exterminism: The Case of South
Africa, Chachage S.L. Chachage
- Chapter 12:
Globalization and University Education in Nigeria,
Ogoh Alubo
- Chapter 13:
Globalization, Islam and Social Policy in Kenya,
Edwin A. Gimode
- Chapter 14:
Harambee Self-Help in Kenya: An Interplay Between the
Local and the Global, Pius Kakai
Wanyonyi
- Chapter 15:
Conclusion - Future Agenda: Beyond Globalization?
Chachage S.L. Chachage and Elisabeth Anan-Yao
