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A study of familial contexts of child care and education fifty years ago in Northern Ghana underlines the significance of multiple parental figures and cooperative care. Issues for contemporary social policy are raised.

This book, first published in 1974, was a significant contribution to the comparative sociology of the family at the time, providing an exercise in methodology in which the aim has been to evolve ways of documenting and comparing two major aspects of change in conjugal family relationships.

Originally published in 1983, this volume documents the complexities and subtleties of the modes of interaction between women and men in one region of Africa. It seeks to provide insights and understanding of changing social contexts and relationships based upon ethnographic field work carried out in the previous decade.

If policies enhancing human development are to be put into practice then consideration is needed of the contribution of women to the labour market in sub-Saharan Africa, where women have the highest rates of economic activity and fertility in a context of the highest levels of maternal and child mortality in the world. Published in association with the International Labour Office (ILO)BR>