Wissenschaftliche Literatur Africa

Teresiah Muthoni

Equal Right to Property for Women under International Human Rights Law

An Analysis of the Legal Protection in Kenya

Studien zur Rechtswissenschaft

The study is inspired by the general situation of women with regard to property and particularly land in Kenya. To date, discrimination and inequality with regard to property and land in particular continue to be pervasive whereby the disparity of ownership of land between men and women stands at Seventy Five percent.

Comprising of five chapters, the study analyses the legal protection of the right to property for women by laying open the existing international…

Tado Jurić

Big (Crisis) Data in Social Sciences and Humanities: Predicting Crises

Studien zur Demographie und Bevölkerungsentwicklung

The method of Big (Crisis) data holds promise to answer, among others, the questions to the main European challenge: (irregular) migration. By combining various big data sources, this approach offers insights into migration trends a year before official data sources.

It helps model future trends and answer the questions:

Lily Rose Tope / Wolfgang Zach (eds.)

Collisions of Cultures

Frictions and Re-Shapings

Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

This is a collection of thirty-nine articles that explore transcultural collisions that have occurred in the course of history and movement of human communities.

It uses the disciplines of literature, history and cultural studies to examine new thematic parameters and methodological approaches that address violent and subtle cultural confrontations between communities, re-shape identities, reconceive gender, define home, track cultural mobilities, explore…

Kizito Logan Elad

European Union Democracy Promotion in North Africa from 1990 to 2010

Case Study on Morocco and Tunisia

Demokratie und Demokratisierungsprozesse

Bisherige Studien zur Demokratieförderung analysierten „erfolgreiche“ Beispiele. Das ist teilweise eine Reflektion der politischen Ökonomie von Demokratieförderung, in der sie Beispielen im Inland erzeugter demokratischer Durchbrüche folgt. Dennoch kann eine wissenschaftliche Analyse externer Einflüsse auf interne Veränderungen sich nicht nur auf Fälle erfolgreicher Demokratieentwicklung beziehen, sondern muss Beispiele von Regimeveränderungen, die nicht in einer…

Valentine Chukwunyere Acholonu

Liturgical Inculturation among Igbo Christians of Nigeria

A Historical Evaluation in the Light of Ecclesial Liturgical Norms and Principles of Liturgical Inculturation

Schriften zur Praktischen Theologie

A historical evaluation of liturgical inculturation among Igbo Christians of Nigeria in the light of ecclesial liturgical norms and principles of liturgical inculturation reflects principally the norms for adapting the Liturgy to the culture and traditions of peoples.

According to the Council Fathers: „Even in the liturgy, the Church has no wish to impose a rigid uniformity in matters which do not implicate the faith or the good of the whole community; rather…

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, which makes it difficult for one to remain truly African and happily Christian in the faces of childless marriage. This work demonstrates this using the life context of the Igbo people of…

Honorat Satoguina

Contribution of the Clean Development Mechanism to Sustainable Energy Production

The Energy Sector in the West African Economic and Monetary Union - Case Study: Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger and Togo

Wirtschaftspolitik in Forschung und Praxis

The Kyoto Protocol encompasses flexible mechanisms, which allow the use of the world’s cheapest possibilities for emission reductions. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows for the generation of emissions credits through emission reduction projects, is the only mechanism that involves developing countries in the global climate change mitigation efforts. Its aim is to contribute to sustainable development (SD) in the host countries. [...]

Jörg Reimann

Römisches Recht bei Tacitus

Rechtsgeschichtliche Studien

Diese Publikation setzt das 2017 erschienene Werk über das Römische Recht bei Titus Livius fort und knüpft sowohl chronologisch als auch thematisch an Livius’ Werke an. Im Gegensatz zu den Werken „Germania“ und „Agricola“ von Tacitus, die für die Untersuchung des Römischen Rechts nur begrenzte Relevanz bieten, tragen die „Annales“ und „Historiae“ weitaus mehr bei. Insbesondere die „Annales“ werden aufgrund ihrer Rechtsrelevanz häufiger…

Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Umeh

African Theology of Solidarity and Religion of Self-Deceit

The Nigerian Experience

THEOS – Studienreihe Theologische Forschungsergebnisse

Religion plays an important role in the day to day activities in Nigeria. Nigerians live religion and think religiously. Religion is used to legitimate almost everything. Politicians use recourse to religion to promote their political agenda. They use religious events, gatherings and discussions to gain political advantage; businessmen and women use religion as an advertising mechanism. The genuine religiosity of Nigerians has become in itself a problem. It has created…

Lisa Mackenrodt

Swahili Spirit Possession and Islamic Healing in Contemporary Tanzania

The Jinn Fly on Friday

Fern/Sehen: Perspektiven der Sozialanthropologie

This account embeds Swahili spirit possession and Islamic healing rituals into its particular geographical, cultural and historical context. It gives an overview of the historical development of the syncretistic Muslim-Swahili littoral in East Africa. A special emphasis is put on Afro-Arab history in relation to the development of Swahili culture and language. Traditional Muslim healers and their rituals form the central focus of this book. By presenting typical…