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Child in Africa

Author : Nicolette Vanessa Roman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781536193343
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Child in Africa written by Nicolette Vanessa Roman and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When we focus on children and adolescents younger than 18 years, we have an opportunity to intervene through policy and practice aimed at improving the quality of life and opportunities to thrive. Through evidence-informed decisions and interventions we have the opportunity to shift a generation of children and adolescents, and transform a society. Children living on the African continent tend to live within diverse, and often challenging environments. These community and familial environments in which children and adolescents come from, are also the context and environments which fosters growth and development. This book, Child in Africa: Opportunities and Challenges, presents studies of children living on the African continent, covering various developmental stages which include children in their early years of life, middle childhood and adolescence - all living in different environments on the African continent. Using mixed methods approaches and backed by rigorous methods the book covers topics such as child and adolescent mental health, parenting, children and disability, parenting in adversity, the impact of dental caries on early childhood development, adolescent identity in post-apartheid South Africa, hookah pipe use and relational aspects to families, young fathers, and intervening in adolescent health risk behaviour. The book presents interesting debates and discussions focused on the child in Africa, aimed to inform both policy and practice"--

Children on the Move in Africa

Author : Élodie Razy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847011381
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Children on the Move in Africa written by Élodie Razy and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely interdisciplinary, comparative and historical perspective on African childhood migration that draws on the experience of children themselves to look at where, why and how they move - within and beyond the continent - andthe impact of African child migration globally.

Child Poverty and Social Protection in Central and Western Africa

Author : Gustave Nébié
Publisher : Ibidem Press
ISBN 13 : 9783838211763
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis Child Poverty and Social Protection in Central and Western Africa by : Gustave Nébié

Download or read book Child Poverty and Social Protection in Central and Western Africa written by Gustave Nébié and published by Ibidem Press. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Livingstone declaration, and the UN Social Protection Floor, this book deals jointly with multidimensional child poverty and social protection in Central and Western Africa. It focuses both on extent and types of social protection coverage and assesses various child poverty trends in the region. More importantly, it looks at social protection to prevent and address the consequences of child poverty. Child poverty is distinct, conceptually, and different, quantitatively, from adult poverty. It requires its own independent measurement--otherwise half of the population in developing countries may be unaccounted for when assessing poverty reduction. This book posits that child poverty should be measured based on constitutive rights of poverty, using a multidimensional approach. The argument is supported by chapters actually applying and expanding this approach. In addition, the case is made that the underlying drivers of child poverty are inequality, lack of access to basic social services, and the presence of families without any type of social protection. As a result, the case for social protection in contributing to reduce and eliminate child protection and its consequences is made. Poverty reduction has been high on the international agenda since the start of the millennium. First as part of the MDGs and now included in the SDGs. However, in spite of a decline in the incidence of child poverty, the number of poor children is harder to reduce due to population dynamics. As a result, concomitant problems such as the increasing number of child brides, unregulated/dangerous migration, unabated child trafficking, etc. remain intractable. Understanding the root causes of child poverty and its characteristics in Central and Western Africa is fundamental to designing innovative ways to address it. It is also important to map the interventions, describe the practices, appreciate the challenges, recognize the limitations, and highlight the contributions of social protection and its role in dealing with child poverty. No practical policy recommendations can be devised without this knowledge.

Media and Its Role in Protecting the Rights of Children in Africa

Author : Oyero, Olusola
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799803317
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Media and Its Role in Protecting the Rights of Children in Africa written by Oyero, Olusola and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many international and national charters and declarations have sought to define and protect the rights of children and ensure their safety. Although many African countries subscribe to these international conventions and charters, rights violations against children have not diminished, and negative actions against children are still carried out daily. Though the media have been charged with the responsibility of active involvement in protecting the interest of the child, it is important to examine how well they have fared in the performance of this duty and the challenges that occur in the process, as well as identify future pathways to ensure that the media succeeds in this assignment. Media and Its Role in Protecting the Rights of Children in Africa is an essential research publication that examines media roles, challenges, theories, and strategies to ensuring the realization of the rights of children. Featuring a range of topics such as cyber-ethics, media studies, and sustainable development, this book is essential for reporters, journalists, newscasters, broadcasters, communication specialists, government officials, activists, humanitarians, sociologists, psychologists, social workers, professionals, researchers, non-governmental organizations, policymakers, academicians, and students.

Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Loretta Elizabeth Bass
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588262868
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (628 download)

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Book Synopsis Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa by : Loretta Elizabeth Bass

Download or read book Child Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Loretta Elizabeth Bass and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bass's comprehensive, systematic study examines the complex factors framing child labor in Africa and offers a window on the lives of the child workers themselves.

The Dark Child

Author : Laye Camara
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780143026785
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Child written by Laye Camara and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Child is a vivid and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Kouroussa, French Guinea, a place steeped in mystery. Laye marvels over his mother's supernatural powers, his father's distinction as the village goldsmith, and his own passage into manhood, which is marked by animistic beliefs and bloody rituals. Eventually, he must choose between this unique place and the academic success that lures him to distant cities. More than autobiography of one boy, this is the universal story of sacred traditions struggling against the encroachment of a modern world. A passionate and deeply affecting record, The Dark Child is a classic of African literature.

Child Soldiers in Africa

Author : Alcinda Honwana
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812204778
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Child Soldiers in Africa written by Alcinda Honwana and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp the fundamentals of morality. It has been only in the past ten years that this component of warfare has captured the attention of the world. Images of boys carrying guns and ammunition are now commonplace as they flash across television screens and appear on the front pages of newspapers. Less often, but equally disturbingly, stories of girls pressed into the service of militias surface in the media. A major concern today is how to reverse the damage done to the thousands of children who have become not only victims but also agents of wartime atrocities. In Child Soldiers in Africa, Alcinda Honwana draws on her firsthand experience with children of Angola and Mozambique, as well as her study of the phenomenon for the United Nations and the Social Science Research Council, to shed light on how children are recruited, what they encounter, and how they come to terms with what they have done. Honwana looks at the role of local communities in healing and rebuilding the lives of these children. She also examines the efforts undertaken by international organizations to support these wartime casualties and enlightens the reader on the obstacles faced by such organizations.

Children's Agency and Development in African Societies

Author : Ofosu-Kus, Yaw
Publisher : CODESRIA
ISBN 13 : 2869787189
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (697 download)

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Download or read book Children's Agency and Development in African Societies written by Ofosu-Kus, Yaw and published by CODESRIA. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on African childhood and youth within the context of development and socialization where children are expected to be moulded in the image of adults. In many African societies children are generally held as passive bearers of the demands of adults, regardless of the fact that they are often exposed to a multitude of challenges that originate from the capriciousness of those adults. However, buoyed by international conventions and national legislations that offer them greater protection, and the ubiquitous internet that exposes them to childhood and youth experiences elsewhere, many of them are increasingly becoming assertive in homes, schools, and communities as well as re-invigorating their survival and self-preservation instincts. It is in this regard that this book, through the various chapters, engages with their competencies, skills and creativity to respond to experiential challenges as independent migrants or ones under coercion working in city streets and markets or cocoa farms or juggling work and schooling in pursuit of some education. Confronted with their parents' and siblings' health predicaments and the inadequacies of state and familial care, or urgent negotiation of their sexualities, they demonstrate incredible resilience. Similarly, their perceptiveness is demonstrated in a unique appreciation of politics and its actors and a capacity to assume responsibilities beyond their chronological age. Thus while highlighting some of the challenges confronting African children, the book provides gripping evidence of how they resiliently negotiate those challenges.

I Lost My Tooth in Africa

Author : Penda Diakité
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780439662260
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book I Lost My Tooth in Africa written by Penda Diakité and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Penda Diakité joins forces with her award-winning author/artist father to give a charming peek at everyday life in Africa. "This fact-based story of losing a tooth while visiting family in Mali rings with authenticity and good humour...[T]he illustrations exude happiness and togetherness." - The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Tippi My Book of Africa

Author : Tippi Degré
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1432301713
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (323 download)

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Download or read book Tippi My Book of Africa written by Tippi Degré and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader on a delightful journey into Africa and into the world of a little girl called Tippi who tells her unforgettable story on her return from Africa to France at the age of ten. Tippi is no ordinary child. She believes that she has the gift of talking to animals and that they are like brothers to her. Her world is filled with characters like Leon the Chameleon, Abu the elephant whom she calls ‘my brother’, and leopards, snakes, baboons, lions and ostriches ... ‘I speak to them with my mind, or through my eyes, my heart or my soul, and I see that they understand and answer me.’ My Book of Africa contains the words of a little girl who has the gift of reaching out and touching the people and animals of Africa. It s beautifully illustrated with over 100 magical photographs taken by her parents, French filmmakers and photographers, Sylvie Robert and Alain Degré.

Child Fostering in West Africa

Author : Erdmute Alber
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004250611
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Child Fostering in West Africa written by Erdmute Alber and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child fostering is an age-old and also modern phenomenon whose importance stretches much further than the boundaries of so-called ‘traditional’ African societies. As a mobile and creative kinship practice, child fostering is of growing importance in the global world as it goes along with other forms of mobility such as migration and transnationalism. The book aims to revitalize the study of fostering by situating the issue in more recent theoretical approaches to kinship. It also examines what functionalist and structuralist theory may still contribute to the understanding of child fostering. Historical and recent child fostering practices in several West African countries are discussed from the angles of Anthropology, History and Law.

Africa Is Not a Country

Author : Margy Burns Knight
Publisher : First Avenue Editions
ISBN 13 : 0761316477
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Africa Is Not a Country written by Margy Burns Knight and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the diversity of the African continent by describing daily life in some of its fifty-three nations.

Child Migration in Africa

Author : Iman Hashim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1780321198
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Child Migration in Africa written by Iman Hashim and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's voluntary migration and their experiences of it. Their accounts challenge the normative ideals of what a 'good' childhood is, which often underlie public debates about children's migration, education and work in developing countries. The comparative study of Burkina Faso and Ghana highlights that social networks operate in ways that can be both enabling and constraining for young migrants, as can cultural views on age- and gender-appropriate behaviour. The book questions easily made assumptions regarding children's experiences when migrating independently of their parents and contributes to analytical and cross-cultural understandings of childhood. Part of the groundbreaking Africa Now series, Child Migration in Africa is an important and timely contribution to an under-researched area.

Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Dean T. Jamison
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821363980
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Disease and Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Dean T. Jamison and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current data and trends in morbidity and mortality for the sub-Saharan Region as presented in this new edition reflect the heavy toll that HIV/AIDS has had on health indicators, leading to either a stalling or reversal of the gains made, not just for communicable disorders, but for cancers, as well as mental and neurological disorders.

Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : Fred M. Ssewamala
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030837076
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Fred M. Ssewamala and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights the emerging research and policy development efforts to address child and adolescent behavioral health in Sub-Saharan Africa, where mental health policy is at an early stage and in need of context-specific attention to its successes and shortcomings. A diverse range of researchers, with expertise on relevant policy in both the region as a whole and country-specific contexts, including Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, outline theoretically informed, culturally appropriate, evidence-based, and youth- and family-focused service models. The first work of its kind with an exclusive focus on the understudied region of Sub-Saharan Africa, this text: Provides an overview of the current state of child and adolescent behavioral health in the region Evaluates empirical work on risk and protective factors influencing behavioral outcomes Highlights emerging intervention research and dialogue on what works to improve child and adolescent behavioral health Offers insight and strategies on how to advance child and adolescent behavioral health in policy, research, and practice Child Behavioral Health in Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards Evidence Generation and Policy Development is a unique reference that offers guidance for current and future policy-makers, researchers, practitioners, and students as they seek to invest and engage in the healthy development of a future generation.

Children’s Lives in an Era of Children’s Rights

Author : Afua Twum-Danso Imoh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135071780
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Children’s Lives in an Era of Children’s Rights written by Afua Twum-Danso Imoh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, marked a turning point in the perception of children in international law and policy. Although it was hoped that the Convention would have a significant and positive impact on the lives of all children, this has not happened in many parts of the world. This edited volume, based on empirical research and Non-Governmental Organisation project data, explores the progress of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to a lesser extent, the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, in nine African countries in the 25 years since it was adopted by the UN General Assembly. The book considers the implementation of the Convention both in terms of policy and practice, and its impact on the lived experiences of children in societies across the continent, focusing on specific themes such as HIV/AIDS, education and disability, child labour, witchcraft stigmatisation, street children, parent-child relationships and child participation. The book breaks new ground in blending legal and social perspectives of the experiences of children, and identifies concrete ways forward for the better implementation of the CRC treaty in the various political contexts that exist in Africa.

Child Care and Culture

Author : Robert A. Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521331715
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book Child Care and Culture written by Robert A. Levine and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-26 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child Care and Culture examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an African community, revealing patterns unanticipated by current theories of child development and raising provocative questions about the concept of "normal" child care. Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities create differing conditions for early childhood development. Combining the perspectives of social anthropology, pediatrics, and developmental psychology, the authors demonstrate how child care customs can be responsive to varied socioeconomic, demographic, and cultural conditions without inflicting harm on children. This text will be of interest to researchers in child development and anthropology.