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The study examines the impact of religion on women empowerment. Three religions, indigenous African, Islam and Christianity, comprising Africa’s triple heritage, are considered. The hypothesized relationships are confirmed. Christianity correlates with each of the four Development Targets specified for women empowerment under the third of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), including raising...
To account for the failure of state-driven development projects, policy makers and planners have tended to blame communal farmers for adhering to outmoded traditional values and practices. Ethnographic data from fieldwork in Matabeleland during 1990-92 shows that far from being trapped within the straightjacket of tradition, villagers opposing the project were intimately enmeshed within modern discourses...
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