Abstract Africa's plural legal systems are often doubly bad for women: reinforcing patriarchal threads in indigenous practices while layering male-dominated Anglo-European laws atop. While these generally work to their detriment, women sometimes able take advantage of them. Under what conditions ‘win’ systems? I examine women's interactions with the colonial court Gold Coast and Senegal. Based ...

This paper presents findings of an investigation into the effects of living-standards and relative poverty on children’s schooling in urban and rural areas of Senegal. To measure living standards, we apply a multiple-indicator, multiple-cause (MIMIC) factor-analytic model to a set of proxy variables collected in the 2000 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey and extract an estimate of the relative ...