Abstract: This article investigates the Taveta Road phenomenon, whereby women garment informal traders occupy a whole street in the central business district in Nairobi, Kenya. It also discusses th…
Les choix qui s'offrent aux femmes sur la manibre de gagner leur vie au Mozambique ont eu un impact ddcisif sur le developpement des villes du Mozambique, et l'urbanisation a en retour a enrichi le…
The spatial ideologies and narrative tropes of gendered victimhood, which are designed to induce fear and anxiety, are routinely employed to govern and restrict female access to and experience of…
Women throughout the world are particularly vulnerable to the threats posed by a changing climate. These threats to the environment puts women's livelihoods, families, health, security, rights and …
This history of urban agriculture in Africa dates to the colonial era when farming flourished in urban areas, largely to meet consumption needs of bureaucrats, settlers, and other elites. Urban agr…
CONTEXT: Given that maternal morbidity and mortality from unsafe abortion persist, especially in Africa, there is a pressing need to understand the abortion decision-making process. However, littl…
Women throughout the world are particularly vulnerable to the threats posed by a changing climate. These threats to the environment puts women's livelihoods, families, health ,security, rights and …
Reproductive health issues of urban slum dwellers are among the most challenging in Africa. Studies have generally examined this issue across the rural-urban dichotomy, without specific focus on ur…
The paper examines gender differences in the urban infrastructural poverty experience in an African city – Ibadan, Nigeria. The result of the cross-sectional survey of 232 households sampled in I…
The strength of this book lies in how the author brings to the surface the invisible dynamics of African women in economic informality, namely their mobilization, collective and individual entrepre…