Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda in Africa
This book is a comprehensive analysis of the structure, determinants and consequences of changes in sub-Saharan African families, thereby representing an Afrocentric description of the emerging trends. It documents various themes in the sub-disciplines of
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Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda in Africa
Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda in Africa
Clifford O. Odimegwu Editor
Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda in Africa
Editor Clifford O. Odimegwu Demography and Population Studies University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa
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This work is dedicated to all the emerging African scholars who are dedicated to change the African narratives.
Acknowledgement
This book is an outcome of a conference on Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda which was held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2016. The completion of this book would not have been possible if not because of the commitments of the contributors, the reviewers, and my personal staff. I would like to thank all the authors of the individual chapters, which were peer-reviewed, for submitting their work for publication in this volume and the peer-reviewers and Springer reviewers for their dedication, timely reviews, and comments to the authors. These comments were helpful in improving the quality of the chapters. And to the authors, I am greatly indebted to you for your timely response to the reviewers’ comments. I would also like to thank Prof. Linda Richter, the former director of DST/NRF Center of Excellence in Human Development at Wits University, and Prof. Sarah Mosoetsa, the director of South Africa National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, for their support to host the Conferen
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