Women Leading Africa
Author | : Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Leadership in women |
ISBN | : 9789988160371 |
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Author | : Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Leadership in women |
ISBN | : 9789988160371 |
Author | : F. Steady |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781349341146 |
This book examines women and leadership in West Africa, with a special focus on Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—the Mano River Union countries. These countries have traditions of indigenous female leadership in executive positions in varying degrees, and all three have a tradition of organizations that form important power bases for women.
Author | : David Sweetman |
Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Publishers |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Women have played a far more central role in Africa than the history books often suggest. Here are lively portraits of twelve key figures. Their periods of influence range from ancient Egypt to the colonial era. This book offers informative reading for secondary school and university students not only in Africa, but in the rest of the world. It will also have an appeal to the general audience interested in the role of women in history." -- Back cover.
Author | : Faith Wambura Ngunjiri |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2010-02-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1438429789 |
Inspiring portraits of contemporary African women leaders.
Author | : Sharon T. Freeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Guida M. Jackson |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1441558438 |
Women Leaders of Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific presents biographical sketches of hundreds of women leaders from earliest recorded history down to the present time. It is the first of two volumes giving data on women leaders from every continent and island in the world; the second volume deals with Europe and countries of the Western Hemisphere. Each book is divided into two sections. Part I of this volume deals with African women leaders; Part II with Asian, Middle East and Pacific women. Within each section, which is introduced by an essay overview, entries are arranged alphabetically. Suggestions for further reading on the subject appear at the end of each entry. Not all entries are merely recitations of facts. Some women's lives do not lend themselves to being reduced to statistics. Many were much too colorful, or lusty, or bloodthirsty to fit into a neat categorical description. How do you easily characterize the rule of the African queen who hacked her servant to death after she was through using him as a chair just to intimidate her new Portuguese overlord? Who kept as many as thirty slaves as sexual partners, supposedly killing them off when she had finished with them? How do you gloss over the actions of the newly enthroned Persian queen who ordered her stepbrother strangled, then had gold and silver coins struck bearing her new title: "Purity of the earthly world and of the faith"? How do you describe nicely the actions of the Chinese queen who chopped off her own hand to make a point to a man she had just condemned to death? How do you ascribe feminine traits to a grandmother who tried to kill her own grandson to keep him from succeeding her on the throne she herself had stolen? On the other hand, how do you do justice to the Queen of Tonga without mention of her commanding size six feet two inches or her forty-seven-year devotion to matters far beyond mere governance but of more importance to her subjects: like establishing handicraft outlets to market the wares of her people? Or to the Queen of Thailand who acted as Regent while the King, a devout Buddhist, performed his meditations and duties as a monk? She directed much more than affairs of state; her concern for the common people led her to promote the export of hand-woven Thai silk and to establish a chain of shops selling native crafts. She also organized the Thai Red Cross for aid to refugees, orphans, wounded soldiers, and flood victims. These and dozens of stories like them make African, Asian, Middle East, and Pacific Women Leaders a unique treasure that is hard to put down. Although most of the entries in this volume deal with women rulers, a portion of the book is devoted to women in leadership roles other than those of queen, empress, prime minister, or chieftainess. Of these additional entries, the majority deals with contemporary women judges, secretaries of state, cabinet members, or legislators of unusual influence and power.
Author | : Aili Mari Tripp |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2008-11-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521704908 |
Women burst onto the political scene in Africa after the 1990s, claiming more than one third of the parliamentary seats in countries like Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi. Women in Rwanda hold the highest percentage of legislative seats in the world. Women's movements lobbied for constitutional reforms and new legislation to expand women's rights. This book examines the convergence of factors behind these dramatic developments, including the emergence of autonomous women's movements, changes in international and regional norms regarding women's rights and representation, the availability of new resources to advance women's status, and the end of civil conflict. The book focuses on the cases of Cameroon, Uganda, and Mozambique, situating these countries in the broader African context. The authors provide a fascinating analysis of the way in which women are transforming the political landscape in Africa, by bringing to bear their unique perspectives as scholars who have also been parliamentarians, transnational activists, and leaders in these movements.
Author | : Eve Thompson |
Publisher | : ISBN Services |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2021-07-23 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781639720958 |
Scholastic material for ages 9-14. This book includes 13 comprehension readers featuring stories on the leadership journeys of inspiring African women leaders, including a special reader on the former President of Malawi, Dr. Joyce Banda. Other countries represented include Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, DRCongo and Ethiopia. Each reader includes comprehension questions, discussion questions and vocabulary words for review at the end of each story. Readers and their teachers can contact the author to request special virtual sessions with selected featured women.
Author | : F. Steady |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2011-12-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137010398 |
This book examines women and leadership in West Africa, with a special focus on Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone—the Mano River Union countries. These countries have traditions of indigenous female leadership in executive positions in varying degrees, and all three have a tradition of organizations that form important power bases for women.
Author | : Amadou Beidy Sow |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2020-04-17 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781951886837 |
This book presents a prototype of leadership that can be applicable to other societies and groups. This work is neither based on the comparison between women and men as political leaders nor is it concerned about any woman politician. It focuses on women who are involved in politics in Africa especially in West Africa. It examines the social, religious, economic, political, and educational experiences of women who are political leaders.