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[PDF File] TRADE POLICY AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IN SUB …
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In sub-Saharan Africa, free-market religion has found far fewer converts. Despite tremendous pressure from donor governments and multilateral agencies, African policy makers have generally been more skeptical about the value of opening up their economies and reducing the role of government. Consequently, reforms have
[PDF File] Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Islam and Christianity in …
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i. While sub-Saharan Africa has almost twice as many Christians as Muslims, on the African continent as a whole the two faiths are roughly balanced, with 400 million to 500 million followers each. Since northern Africa is heavily Muslim and southern Africa is heavily Christian, the great meeting place is in the middle, a 4,000-mile swath from ...
[PDF File] Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Islam and Christianity in …
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Most people in sub-Saharan Africa now identify with either Christianity or Islam. In most of the 19 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, 90% or ... religion as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular.” In all the other countries, the figure is closer to zero. Religious Affiliation
[PDF File] Cultural significance of termites in sub-Saharan Africa
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27 different countries in sub-Saharan Africa of whom 21 were resource persons (experts without recorded ethnic affiliation). From 5 other respondents, the ethnic group was unknown. The total number of ethnic groups was 121, excluding Zanzibar and Madagascar where the eth-nicities were not recorded. The following part presents a listing of ...
[PDF File] Popular Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa - JSTOR
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The second is the political importance of 'popular' religions. The aim is to examine the role of both these aspects of the interaction and relationship of religion and politics in sub-Saharan Africa. The first task is to establish the nature of the links between senior religious figures and state elites. The second is to make some preliminary ...
[PDF File] MAJOR TRENDS AFFECTING FAMILIES IN SUB-SAHARAN …
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In Kenya, where demographic data is more reliable, studies show that the speed of fertility decline has been steady: -2.64% in urban areas, and –1.62 in rural areas. Overall, there are moderate ...
[PDF File] Identity-Ethnic-Conflict-and-Communal-Conflict-in-Sub-Sahar…
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The article aims to analyse the identity problems expressed in ethnic and communal conflicts in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is based on the critically reviewed literature of the subject, as well as the author’s conclusions from many years of research on the problem of state dysfunctional-ity, conducted in Sub-Saharan African countries.
[PDF File] Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Islam and Christianity in …
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i. While sub-Saharan Africa has almost twice as many Christians as Muslims, on the African continent as a whole the two faiths are roughly balanced, with 400 million to 500 million followers each. Since northern Africa is heavily Muslim and southern Africa is heavily Christian, the great meeting place is in the middle, a 4,000-mile swath from ...
[PDF File] Religion and Reproductive Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa …
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2. Population Composition. The composition of religions in the sub-Saharan African countries included in this report is summarized in Table 1. In many of the countries of West and Central Africa, Muslims are the largest religious subgroup; they comprise almost the entire populations of Mali, Niger, and Senegal.
[PDF File] Alternative Child Care and Deinstitutionalisation in Sub …
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Table 2: Child population - countries of Sub-Saharan Africa listed alphabetically .....11 Table 3: Children without parental care and number of institutions in Sub -Saharan Africa.....24. Acronyms . CCI Child care institution . CHH Child-headed households . CWPC Children without parental care . ICA Inter-country adoption
[PDF File] Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Islam and Christianity in …
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Executive Summary. The vast majority of people in many sub-Saharan African nations are deeply committed to the practices and major tenets of one or the other of the world’s two largest religions, Christianity and Islam. Large majorities say they belong to one of these faiths, and, in sharp contrast with Europe and the United States, very few ...
[PDF File] THE CHURCH AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN SUB …
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y across the globe with the exception of sub-Saharan Africa. Whereas the global incidence of poverty in the developing world was to fall from 33 to 18 per cent, that of sub-Saharan Africa was predicted to rise from 180 million to 265 million between 1985 and 2000 − constituting a rise from 16 to 32 per cent.11 The African situation was ...
[PDF File] African and Not Religious: The State of Research on Sub …
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ings, we also draw on our longstanding ethnographic studies on religion and society across three Sub-Saharan countries: Chad, Kenya, and South Africa.1 This first-hand data focuses on conceptions and structural oppositions to nones as voiced by religious and political leaders. Importantly, considering the article’s wide regional scope on the
[PDF File] Christianity, Colonialism, and Communications in Sub …
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In 1870, apart from the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia and the settlements of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and South Africa, Christians were an insignificant minority in nearly all sub- Saharan societies. By 1970 Christianity had become the dominant religious influence among many African societies, and the social and political influence exerted by African.
[PDF File] Religion and Peacebuilding in Sub-Saharan Africa
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4 religion and peacebuilding in sub-saharan africa 49 The first section of this chapter reviews some of the major develop- ments in the field of religious peacebuilding in Africa in a context of
[PDF File] Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Islam and Christianity in …
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Executive Summary. The vast majority of people in many sub-Saharan African nations are deeply committed to the practices and major tenets of one or the other of the world’s two largest religions, Christianity and Islam. Large majorities say they belong to one of these faiths, and, in sharp contrast with Europe and the United States, very few ...
[PDF File] Revised 09/15/14 RELIGION AND REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR …
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sub-Saharan Africa has become an object of attention (Heaton, 2011; Johnson-Hanks, 2006; Kahle, 2013) The most relevant publication in the group for this research is Tim Heaton’s article in 2010: “Does Religion Influence Fertility in Developing Countries” based on data for 30 countries including 17 from sub-Saharan Africa. His study
[PDF File] Religion and Interest in Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Religion and Interest in Politics. Since democratization, Reformist Reformist Islam. Scholarly the 1980s, narratives Islam. about sub-Saharan the relationship Scholarly between and concurrent religion narratives Africa expansions (SSA) about has the of experienced relationship independent a between Christianity major wave religion and of.
[PDF File] COMPREHENSIVE SEXUALITY EDUCATION IN SUB-SAHARAN …
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This report provides an overview on the state of implementation of the comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). As case studies, it analyzes the CSE programs in Zambia and Namibia, two countries in Southern Africa that have received praise for running successful CSE programs.
[PDF File] Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical …
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Keywords: Armed conflict, religion, sub‐Saharan Africa, mobilization Dr. Matthias Basedau is a political scientist and a senior research fellow at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs, where he also heads Research Programme 2 “Violence and Security.” Contact: <basedau@giga‐hamburg.de>
[PDF File] REGIONAL FACTSHEET Sub-Saharan Africa - UN Women
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The total fertility rate is projected to decline from 6.8 live births in 1970-1975 to 4.7 in 2015-2020; this regional average is almost double the global rate of 2.4.14. Adolescent birth rates are higher in Sub-Saharan Africa than in other regions, with 27.8 per cent of women aged 20-24 giving birth before age 18, a figure that rises to 41.3 ...
[PDF File] The Rise of Religious Armed Conflicts in Sub-Saharan …
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Religious Violence in Africa has Become Frequent and is Increasing. Since the 1990s, the deadliness of armed conflict and other violence seems to have decreased in sub-Saharan Africa and throughout the world (Pinker 2011; Basedau and Mappes 2015). There are signs, however, that this might be changing.
[PDF File] Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, 800–1900 - Springer
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This chapter examines the patterns of conversion to Islam among the different social strata in Africa from the 800s to the 1900s. It also offers insights into the content of African Islamic culture and literature (Fig. 2.1).3. B. Salvaing (*) University of Nantes, Nantes, France e-mail: bernard.salvaing@univ-nantes.fr.
[PDF File] Peace and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa Matthias Basedau …
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GIGA WP 70/2008. a: The Impact of Religion on Peace and Conflict in Sub-Saharan AfricaAbstractGiven the widespread focus on socioeconomic factors, it comes as no surprise that re. igion is neglected in most theoretical explanations of African civil conflicts. While scholarly in-terest is increasing in light of the civil wars in Sudan, Nigeria, an.
[PDF File] Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life Islam and Christianity in …
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Roughly one-third or more of the population in South Africa (32%), Senegal (35%) and Guinea Bissau (41%) says they possess such items. In most other countries, 15-30% of the population owns traditional sacred objects. Substantial minorities (roughly 20% or more) in many countries also say they participate in ceremonies or rituals to honor their ...
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