Gender and Development in Africa and Its Diaspora

<p>This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social economic religious cultural environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora. </p><p></p><p>An interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the role of gender in development against the background of Africa's convoluted and arduous history of state formation slavery colonialism post-independence nation-building and poverty. Each chapter highlights and stimulates further discussion on the struggles that many African and African Diaspora societies grapple with in the perplexing issue of gender and development - concentrating on gains that have been made and the challenges yet to be surmounted. </p>