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Understanding Sexual Negotiation between Marital Partners: A Study of Ogu Families in Southwestern Nigeria
Get PDFStudies on African sexuality have concentrated on men extra-marital affairs and a total neglect of sexual negotiation between husband and wife. The main objective of this study is to examine gender differentials in sexual negotiation strategies between marital partners among the Ogu, South-western Nigeria. Data were generated from survey conducted among 900 married men and women and 9 focus group discussions. Analysis reveals that both husband and wife have sexual needs that make them to desire sex naturally. While men do make direct demand for sex, women employ indirect erotic strategies to initiate sex. The consent of both partners is required for sexual encounter to give maximum pleasure. Logistic models show that urban residence and frequent spousal communication are associated with gender equity in sexual negotiation between marital partners. It is suggested that sexual health programmes should therefore focus on both partners and not just men
Another Look at the Impact of Nigeria’s Growing Population on the Country’s Development
Get PDFThis paper is a contribution to the debate about the impact of Nigeria’s growing population on the country’s development. With a population that already exceeds 130 million people and growing at roughly 3 per cent annually, a considerable proportion of the nation’s resources are consumed instead of accumulated for development purposes. In effect, the paper empirically tests the association between population growth and economic development in Nigeria between 1980 and 2003 and found that growth in population outweighs that of output and this has hindered the capacity of successive governments to efficiently provide social services to the people, thereby negatively affecting development. Our contention, therefore, is that curbs on population growth through appropriate policies that would integrate the country’s population programmers into the mainstream development efforts are necessary. That way, higher per capita consumption of social services by the citizens would be facilitated and which ultimately would boost their access to the benefits of development
Evolution des Rapports de Genre dans les Sociétés Bamiléké et Bëti du Cameroun
Get PDFCet article examine l’importance de la dimension culturelle des rapports de genre pour la compréhension des comportements démographiques. Nous utilisons des données quantitatives et qualitatives sur deux groupes ethniques au Cameroun (les Bamiléké et les Bëti) dans une analyse comparative des opinions vis-à-vis des statuts et des rôles masculins et féminins. Comparés au modèle culturel traditionnel de base, ces analyses permettent d’évaluer l’évolution des modèles culturels relatifs au genre. Elles permettent ensuite d’examiner l’influence de certaines caractéristiques individuelles des conjoints. Les résultats montrent d’importants changements au sein de chaque groupe ethnique, liés en partie à l’instruction et l’urbanisation. Toutefois, l’influence de ces facteurs se fait beaucoup plus sentir en société Bëti qu’en société Bamiléké, reflet d’une mutation du traditionnel vers le modernisme différente entre les deux ethnies
Problèmes conceptuels d'observation des décès adultes en Afrique
Get PDFThe fact that the permanent registration system of demographic events at the vital registration centre does not work well in Sub-Saharan Africa can be explained by the fact that most of the data on which researchers base their work come from population surveys (be they single passage or repeated passage surveys). But these data are often marred by non-negligible declaration mistakes, and it is therefore necessary to resort to indirect mortality estimate. But all approaches of adult mortality estimate (be it direct estimate or indirect estimate) are based on concepts and assumptions (be they implicit or explicit) which do not go beyond cultures. This is why these concepts and assumptions are exposed to major cultural disturbances which are not without consequences on the reliability of mortality estimates in Black Africa. This text draws attention on these risks and urges to take them into consideration in the collection and analysis of data on the African population in general, and more particularly on those relating to adult mortality. It is on these conditions that it is possible to hope for a better adult mortality estimate
The Demography of South Africa
Get PDFTukufu Zuberi, Amson Sibanda, And Eric Udjo (Eds.) TheDemography of South Africa
The Demand for Children in Anambra State of Nigeria: A Logit Analysis.
Get PDFThis paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of demand for children in Anambra State of Nigeria. To achieve this, a micro framework was adopted and cross sectional data explored. Logistics regression technique was used for the data analysis and the factors identified as strong predictors of demand for children include wife’s level of participation in decision-making, occupation, place of residence, husband’s education among others. Surprisingly, wife’s education is among the weak predictors. This supports the assumption that female education is a necessary but not sufficient condition to guarantee fertility decline. Cultural inertia may account for this, considering its adverse consequence on women’s access to productive resources and level of participation in decision-making
Household Headship and Nutritional Status of Toddlers: An Examination of Malawian Data
Get PDFThe feminisation of poverty indicates that female-headed households (FHH) constitute a vulnerable socio-economic group generally considered as impoverished compared to male-headed households (MHH). The interest in this paper is to examine whether the nutritional status of children in FHH differ significantly from that of children in MHH. Anthropometric data on 1466 toddlers aged 12-59 months and several societal, household and individual variables from the Malawi Demographic Health Survey (MDHS) 1992 were used to find out the net impact of the sex of household head on stunting, under nutrition and wasting in the toddlers. The bivariate results show that children in FHH (stunted – 56.7%; underweight - 33.3%; wasted – 6.7%) may not have poorer nutritional outcomes than their counterparts from MHH (stunted – 53.6%; underweight – 31.3%; wasted – 5.7%) since the differences are not significant. However, a number of the background characteristics were significantly associated with the three indicators suggesting that the results on headship could be masked by the differentials shown in background characteristics. Furthermore, results from the logistic regression analysis suggest that economic status has the strongest relationship with stunting. Hence the likelihood that a child from a better economic status household will be stunted is 50% less likely compared to a child from a poor household. Besides economic status, the role of birth weight, child’s age sanitation and the region in which the child lives were found to be important differentials in the nutritional status of toddlers in Malaw