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Housing Finance Strategies of Informal Settlement Dwellers
Access to housing and to housing finance remains a challenge in African cities. This study examines the housing finance strategies of informal settlement dwellers in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) and identifies a range of factors that enable or constrain actors to make investments in housing. Based on ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative research, this study provides detailed insights into individual housing biographies, and explains why some actors invest in housing, while others do not. It finally challenges widely accepted development concepts like the provision of housing microfinance, land regularisation, infrastructure upgrading and eviction and argues for a deeper understanding of everyday lives in order to improve housing conditions. Christiane Rudic studied Geography with particular focus on urban development and housing at Bayreuth University. Dissertation. (Series: Contributions to African Research / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 68) [Subject: Sociology, African Studies, Urban Development]
The Funeral Performances among the Bukusu of Kenya
This book is about interactions in the funeral context among the Bukusu people of Kenya that brings together many religions. The author describes and accounts for hybridity as it is revealed by communicative techniques used by the priest and the comforter in the two communicative genres-the sermon and the traditional public comforting-that belong to the Christian and the Traditional Bukusu religions respectively. By approaching the co-existence of the two religions from a linguistic perspective, the study aims at ascertaining the relationship between the two religions. Dissertation. (Series: Contributions to Africa Research / Beitr�¤ge zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 84) [Subject: Anthropology, African Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology]
The Religious Men in Jebel Marra
"The study investigates how Muslim religious specialists (fuqarâ, sing. fakî) acquire Qur'anic knowledge in the context of the 'communities of practice'. It contextualises the Qur'anic schools of Jebel Marra in the Sudan arguing that the fuqarâ increase their access to knowledge of the Qur'an by socially interacting with each other. The book is grounded in a[n] ethnographic study of Qur'anic memorisation and activities that the fuqarâ perform after graduation from Qur'anic schools. It thus provides a fresh perspective to Islamic learning and epistemology. 'The great value of the study lies in the author's reconstruction of the practices and techniques, cognitive and corporeal, which are systematically employed to memorise the whole of the Qur'an.'"--Page 4 of cover.
Tracks and Traces of Violence
Tracks and Traces of Violence explores the social conditions, political contexts, and cultural spaces of violence in Africa. It is comprised of accounts that underpin the visible and hidden 'tracks and traces' of violence in the memories of traumatized individuals and groups. It also interrogates the gaps, silences, and vacuities of/in these memories, as well as the role they play in shaping the facial contours of our modern societies. Weaving together views from literature, anthropology, art, cultural studies, and museum studies, this book provides deeper insight into the meanings of violent socialities, spatialities, and temporalities, as well as into how they materialize in poetry, fiction, art, and popular culture. (Series: Contributions to African Research / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung, Vol. 80) [Subject: African Studies, Sociology, Art, Literature, Anthropology]
Translations of Urban Regulation in Relations between Kigali (Rwanda) and Singapore
Following debates on urban policy-mobilities and -learning in Human Geographies the dissertation takes the example of Kigali's masterplan to show how aspirations of Rwandan and Singaporean policy-makers are transformed into concrete urban planning interactions. It provides a close analysis of the practices behind the mobilization of spatial planning expertise. The dissertation traces how planning approaches and regulations are mediated within the interaction between Singaporean and Rwandan actors and ultimately take shape in Kigali's urban space.
Transnational Migration-Development Nexus
With a tenfold increase in remittance flows over the last 25 years, the diaspora's role in the development efforts of the global South has gained broader interest. Besides financial remittances, flows of skills and social remittances have gained attention, particularly the relevance of diaspora associations as drivers of development. This book explores the engagement of Ethiopian diaspora associations in Germany for their home country's development. It investigates the policies of the Ethiopian and Germany governments, and the opportunities the policies generate for diaspora engagement efforts.
Exploring Ethnically-Marked Varieties of Kenyan English
On a quest to satisfy the need for acoustic documentation of pronunciation norms of Standard Kenyan English, there were predominant deviations which identify users of Ethnically Marked Varieties of Kenyan English. The study documents findings on tenets of Ethnic Markedness by two groups that revealed maximally distinct pronunciation. Data collection and analysis encompassed systematic recording, annotation and acoustic scrutiny. Moreover, attitudes that other Kenyans hold toward the selected varieties are exposed. The study is a primary source in the genres of World Englishes, speech science, prosody and interlanguage pronunciation.
Lasten tragen, Moderne befördern
Wanderarbeit ist fester Bestandteil eines Lebensverlaufs vieler junger Männer und Frauen aus Nordghana. Die Begleitung von Lastenträger*innen (weibliche kayayei und männliche truck pusher) auf Märkten und Busstationen im südlichen Ghana und in ihre Heimat verdeutlicht diese Praxis als diffizile soziale Aushandlung um Lebensphasen einer modernen Jugend und des Erwachsenendaseins. Teilhabe an diesen äußert sich als kollektives (kayayei) oder zunächst verborgenes (truck pusher) Bestreben, deren Bedeutung sich erst mit der Rückkehr in den Norden erschließt. Die Begleitung der Wanderarbeiter*innen zeichnet diesen Prozess nach und zeigt so die Bedeutung geschlechtsspezifischer und multilokaler Perspektiven auf Jugend, Wanderarbeit und soziale Mobilität jenseits populärer Exklusionszuschreibungen von Jugend in Afrika auf.
La vente de produits de santé dans les cars interurbains au Cameroun
Cet ouvrage porte sur la vente itinérante de médicaments dans les transports interurbains. Il y ressort que les interactions qui composent le corpus ont des filiations avec la consultation, la publicité et le commerce dont les spécificités sont décrites au travers d’analyses empiriques. « C’est à mes yeux un travail passionnant, que l’on lit avec beaucoup de plaisir et dans lequel on apprend beaucoup. Mon appréciation tient à différents aspects, à commencer par le sujet très original. » Véronique Traverso, Université de Lyon. « La thèse de Mme Ngawa documente un genre interactionnel qui joue manifestement un rôle important dans « “l’écosystème” des soins de santé camerounais et à ce titre il s’agit d’un travail aussi important qu’original, dont la qualité doit être saluée » Marty Laforest, Université de Trois-Rivières.
Financial Performance of Microfinance Institutions in Ghana and Uganda
This book examines the determinants of financial performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Ghana and Uganda, against the backdrop of the public and academic debate over the financial and social implications of microfinance. In the absence of a conceptual model, the study chooses an inductive research approach with the objective of defining and developing a conceptual model with the capacity to explain, quantify, and compare the performance of MFIs. The research is particularly relevant in the African context where microloan interest rates regularly exceed 100% per annum and where the microfinance industry is lacking behind its global peers in regard to financial and social performance. (Series: Contributions to the Africa Research / Beitrage zur Afrikaforschung - Vol. 59) [Subject: Economics, Finance, African Studies]
