Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of the most prevalent harmful cultural practices against women and girls in many African countries. We identified reasons for failure legal approach to stop FGC practice Ejagham region Southwest Cameroon through multi-locale ethnographic fieldwork. The revolve around belief that FGM useful reduction sexual immorality among women, removal ambiguit...

Today, the role of government is considered so much precise regulations, foresight and initiative of the public sector in the economy can trigger market growth. But usually because the private sector activity is affected by interactions of the market and government, markets' development process is slow and governmental clubs have become a consumer of financial resources by their inefficient fun...

“Cultural diversity” has become one of the latest buzzwords on the international policymaking scene. It is employed in various contexts—sometimes as a term close to “biological diversity”, at other times as correlated to the “exception culturelle” and most often, as a generic concept that is mobilised to counter the perceived negative effects of economic globalisation. While no one has yet prov...

Equality between men and women exists when both sexes are able to share equally in the distribution of power and influence. Although the gender gap in labour market participation has narrowed, gender differences in everyday experiences persist in developing countries. This article reviews the place of feminists today in the advancement of gender equality in the Southern African Development Comm...

background: empowerment of elderly people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) can increase their quality of life and feeling of well-being. however, few researches focused on the obstacles and factors facilitating empowerment in elderly people with copd and an adequate determining of these factors need an in-depth understanding of the meaning of these factors which influences empo...

Recent theories of communication for development consider the lack of political, economic and cultural power of lower-status sectors as the central problem to be addressed in development. The majority do not have access to the education, technical assistance, good health and housing needed to make a contribution to national development. A deeper issue are the cultural values which see minoritie...