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Women Cabinet Ministers in West Africa: Insights from The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone
Across the world cabinet ministers are significant political players and yet they are grossly under researched, in part because of a dearth of consistent and comparable data.
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The Expansion of West African Pidgin: Social and Linguistic Factors
West African Pidgin (Pidgin) is a group of related, mutually intelligible varieties that emerged from contact between English and African languages in coastal West Africa.
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Postgraduate study and the relationship supervisor-student in West Africa: Dealing with suffering and achievement in Benin
EYEBIYI, Elieth. (2024). Postgraduate study and the relationship supervisor-student in West Africa: Dealing with suffering and achievement i...
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Performing Sustainability in West Africa Cultural Practices and Policies for Sustainable Development
Lettau, Meike, Christopher Yusufu Mtaku and Eric Debrah Otchere. 2022. Performing Sustainability in West Africa Cultural Practices and Polic...
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Is it well with my soul? Effects of contemporary African religious practices on well-being
Promotion of well-being and healthy lives is the third goal of the United Nations Organization Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) (United Nations Organization, 2015) and as such well-being has become a major concern among national leaders and policymakers.
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The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles
Piot, Charles. 2019. The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles. Durham: Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-fixer
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Multi-class families, regional disparities and the emergence of middle classes in Africa
Drawing on my own fieldwork in Ghana as well as secondary sources on West Africa, but also other African countries, this project will explore two challenges in particular.
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Local practices and institutions and their relevance for systems of social security. An investigation based on a case study of Senegal, Mali and Gabon .
This project has been built around the premise that by and large the present day social security systems in Africa are failing.
