TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skard, Torild
TI  - Continent of mothers: understanding and promoting development in Africa today
SN  - 9781842771075
U1  - 338.996 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Social Conditions
KW  - Women
KW  - Africa
KW  - Children
KW  - Public Health
N1  - 1. "Bereavement - What do we mean by bereavement?"
2. Out in the unknown with UNICEF

Part I: Working With Women and Children
3. Betrayed, bereaved and brutalised: The merciless realities of war
4. Concealed calamity; How stop the ravages of the HIV/AIDS pandemic
5. An exploding agenda: Chasing childhood killer diseases
6. Mysterious modern medicine men: Towards the goal of health for all
7. Motherhood and martyrdom: Breaking centuries of silence and neglect
8. Searching for the excluded from school: Experiments with new forms of education particularly for girls
9. The lost children: Ruthless exploitation of the weakest
10. Dangerous food and drink: Progress with simple means

Part II: A Journey In History and Society
11. From the emperors of the desert to the white man's yoke Centuries of history with greatness and humiliation
12. Poor amid the riches: Hard work with a meagre outcome
13. Democracy in khaki: Western models and African realities
14. Queen mothers and market women: Modernization with discrimination of women
15. Where the masks speak: Undervalued traditional culture
16. Between village and metropolis: Mixture of traditional and modern

Part III: Conclusion
17. Our beloved Africa; Is a renaissance possible?
18. Hidden hope: The world's least touched resources
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