Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa
Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa

Author: Vigdis Broch-Due

Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9789171064523

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Drawing on case studies from eight different countries, the con-tributors to this provocative collection of essays demonstrate quite clearly that environmental programmes often have direct and far-reaching consequences for the distribution of wealth and poverty and that they constitute one of the major forms of foreign and state intervention in contemporary African affairs.

Women and Work in Northern Nigeria
Women and Work in Northern Nigeria

Author: R. Pittin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-11-15

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1403914214

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Women and Work in Northern Nigeria is a study of the social and economic opportunities open to and seized upon by Muslim Hausa women, primarily in the city of Katsina, Nigeria, over the course of the past three decades. In the context of multiple political regimes, the turmoil of the Nigerian economy, and major ideological shifts, women have sought to optimize their resources and situations. Women and Work in Northern Nigeria take as a primary theme, women's ability to recognize and to cross the physical, spatial and discursive boundaries which ostensibly service to define and confine them

New Serial Titles
New Serial Titles

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Published: 1992

Total Pages: 1748

ISBN-13:

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

The Nigerian Legal System
The Nigerian Legal System

Author: Charles Mwalimu

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 792

ISBN-13: 9780820471273

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Volume 1 on public law provides an introduction to the Nigerian legal system. The various chapters deal with: introduction and sources of law; jurisprudence and Nigerian perspectives; African customary law; Islamic law; comparative constitutionalism and Nigerian perspectives; citizenship, immigration and administrative law; judicial system and legal profession; criminal law, evidence and civil procedure; statutory marriage and divorce laws; customary marriage and divorce; marriage and divorce under Islamic law; matters of children; gender and law in Nigeria with emphasis on Islamic law. Volume 2 has 25 chapters on private law that includes security of the environment and environmental law, land and property administration, commercial business and trade laws, communication, media and press laws, transportation and carrier laws, law enforcement, armed forces and military laws, investments, and intellectual property.