This special issue on African women workers in a changing world discusses several themes that have long been the concern of feminist scholars with an interest in women’s work: transnational capitalism and its implications for women’s productive activities, the debilitating impact of land tenure arrangements in Africa on women’s productive and reproductive responsibilities, as well as state actions and inactions in support of women’s productive activity.
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Editorial
African Women Workers in a Changing World
– by Akosua K. Darkwah
Features
Land Grabbing: A Big Toll on Women Farmers – a Case Study of Segou Region in Mali
– by Asmao Diallo
Fishmeal Production and the Dispossession of Women in The Gambia
– by Fatou H. Jobe
Women Farm Workers in Zimbabwe: The Social Policy Outcomes Two Decades after the Transformative Fast Track Land Reform
– by Tom Tom and Resina Banda
That woman is a ‘Farmer”: Gender and the Changing Character of 103 Commercial Agriculture in Zimbabwe
– by Newman Tekwa
Workplace Experiences of Infrastructure Sector Participants in South Africa’s Expanded Public Works Programme
– by Ramona Baijnath
Continuity and Change: Women’s Work in the Kente Economy of Bonwire, Ghana
– by Dede Amanor-Wilks
Standpoint
All that Glitters is not Gold: Formal Work Deficits on the African Continent
– by Bashiratu Kamal
In a Conversation
A Union Like None Other on the Continent - Akosua K. Darkwah speaks with Deborah Freeman Danquah
Reviews
Wangari Maathai, by Tabitha Kanogo
– by Patricia Kameri-Mbote