Literatur: Africa

Eric Asoh

Assessing the Impact of Sustainability Standards as a Strategy for Livelihood Sustainability in the Cocoa Industry

in the South West Region of Cameroon

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

This study assesses the impact of Fairtrade on the livelihood sustainability of smallholder cocoa producers in the South West region of Cameroon. In Cameroon just like in many other developing countries, the smallholder farmers have deficient strategies with limited production and productivity [...]

Africa, Afrika, Cameroon, Cocoa, Fairtrade, Kakao, Kamerun, Livelihood, Rural Development, South West Region, Value Chain, Voluntary Sustainability Standard, Wertschöpfungskette

Alexander Izuchukwu Abasili

Marriage and Adultery in the Old Testament

An Igbo-African Contextual Reading

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

This book not only provides an in-depth understanding of family, marriage and adultery in the Old Testament and the implications thereof for contemporary Igbo-African society, but also demonstrates convincingly the vital role of the Bible in Africa as a resource for social and ethical [...]

Adultery, Africa, Afrika, Altes Testament, Bibelstudien, Bible Studies, Divorce, Ehe, Ehebruch, Familie, Family, Igbo, Marriage, Narrative Analyse, Narrative analysis, Old Testament, Scheidung, Sexual ethics, Sexualethik

Alexander Martin Saba

The Place of Independent Judiciary in Promoting and Protecting Democratic Governance in East Africa

Schriften zum ausländischen Recht

Die Förderung und der Schutz demokratischer Herrschaft in drei Mitgliedern der Ostafrikanischen Gemeinschaft (EAC), Kenia, Uganda und Tansania, bedingt die Mitwirkung vieler Einrichtungen und eine stabile Gewaltenteilung. Gerichtsbarkeit ist zweifellos ein unverzichtbarer staatlicher Bereich, [...]

Democratic Governance, Demokratische Herrschaft, East-African Community, East Africa, Human Rights, Independent Judiciary, Judicial Service Commissions, Legal Status of Judges, Menschenrechte, Ostafrikanische Gemeinschaft, Rechtsstellung von Richtern, Rechtswissenschaft, Richterausschüsse, Unabhängige Justiz

Christogonus Onyekachi Keke

The Misery of Childless Marriage in Igbo Culture

Re-Consideration of Ecclesiastical Ethical Response to Cultural and Biomedical “Remedies”

Ethik in Forschung und Praxis

Infertility is a universal problem but the crisis it poses for Christian couples in the African cultural context differs from the experience in Western cultures. The root of the problem is the conflict in the understanding of marriage in African culture and the Christian marriage ethics, [...]

African Culture, Afrikanische Kultur, Artificial Reproduction, Bio-Medicine, Childlessness (Marriage), Christian Ethics, Christian Marriage, Christliche Ehe, Christliche Ethik, Igbo, Igbo Marriage, Infertility, IVF, Kinderlosigkeit, Künstliche Befruchtung, Moraltheologie, Moral Theology, Osu Caste System

Livingstone Sewanyana

Comparative Experiences of NGO Regulatory Frameworks

Eastern and Southern Africa

Verfassungsrecht in Forschung und Praxis

The growth of NGOs in sub-Saharan countries beginning in the 1990s, can be attributed to the ’new wave of democracy’ that led to the rebirth of associational life thus creating new spaces for people to organise. Hitherto many countries amended their constitutions to allow for political [...]

Accountability, Constitutional Law, Democracy, Governance, Human Rights, NGOs, Regulation, Sub-Saharan Africa, Transparency