Voices of African women: women's rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania
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VOICES OF AFRICAN WOMEN
WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN GHANA,
UGANDA, AND TANZANIA
Johanna Bond
CAROLINA ACADEMIC PRESS
Durham, North Carolina
CONTENTS
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction
Overview of History and Legal Systems: Ghana, Tanzania,
and Uganda, Anne Dougherty Letter xv
Chapter One Women's Right to Participate in Public Life 3
Chapter Introduction, Johanna Bond 3
Legal Strategies to Increase Ugandan Women's Access
to Higher Education, Dora Kanabahita Byamukama 12
• Women and Higher Education in Tanzania, Mande Limbu 28
Implementation of Affirmative Action in Tanzania's Parliament:
An Assessment of the Reserved Seats for Women, Jane Magigita 40
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: The Women's Movement
and Law Reform in Uganda from 1985-2000, Jacqueline Asiimwe 52
Judicial Activism and Gender Rights in Tanzania: The Task Ahead,
Regina M Rweyemamu 63
Chapter Two Violence Against Women 75
Chapter Introduction, Johanna Bond 75
Trokosi: Twentieth Century Female Bondage—A Ghanaian
Case Study, Hilary Amesika Gbedemah 83
The Plight of Refugee Women: Protection from Sexual Violence
in Refugee Camps—A Case Study of Tanzania, Hadija Ally 96
Sexual Violence Against Women in Tanzania: A Case Study
on the 1998 Sexual Offences (Special Provision) Act No 4,
Scolastica Jullu 117
V l l
viii CONTENTS
Domestic Violence: Strategies for Combating Wife Battery
in Uganda, Kulsum Wakabi 132
Marital Rape as a Form of Domestic Violence and the Need
for Law Reform in Ghana, Beatrice Akua Abrekna Duncan 147
Attitudes Toward Victims of Rape that Affect the Reporting,
Prosecutions, and Convictions for Rape: The Need for Law
Reform in Ghana, Sheila N Y Gyimah 155
Female Genital Mutilation: Tradition or Torture?,
Fitnat N-A Adjetey 166
Chapter Three Women's Rights within the Family 181
Chapter Introduction, Johanna Bond 181
Polygamy, Equality, and the Gender Debate: A Comparative Study
of Ghana and the United States, Angela Dwamena-Aboagye 190
Discrimination in the Traditional Marriage and Divorce System
in Ghana: Looking at the Problem from a Human Rights
Perspective, Bernice Sam 205
Comparative Study of the Status of Women under the Law
of Divorce and of their Economic Status in Uganda, Britain,
and Bangladesh, Regina Lule Mutyaba 218
Rethinking Property: Women and Matrimonial Property Rights
in Tanzania, Salma Maulidi 232
Property in Marriage Relations—Its Legal Implications
for Women in Uganda, Margaret C Oguli Oumo 243
Impact of Customary Inheritance on the Status of Widows
and Daughters in Tanzania: A Challenge to Human Rights
Activists, Monica E Magoke-Mhoja 255
Chapter Four Reproductive Health, Women's Subordination,
and HIV/AIDS 267
Chapter Introduction, Johanna Bond 267
Religious and Cultural Rights: Reclaiming the African Woman's
Individuality—The Struggle Between Women's Reproductive
Autonomy and African Society and Culture, Fitnat N-A Adjetey 27'4
CONTENTS ix
Women and HIV/AIDS in Uganda, Emma Ssali Namuli 288
Women's Rights and the AIDS Epidemic in Tanzania,
Maria Tungaraza 301
Chapter Five Women's Economic Empowerment 315
Chapter Introduction, Johanna Bond 315
Women and Employment Discrimination in Uganda's Formal
Sector: Facing Challenges and Forging Change, Evelyn Nassuna 323
Women's Access to and Control over Land in Uganda: A Tool
for Economic Empowerment, Naome Kabanda 337
Ghanaian Women, the Law, and Economic Power,
Gloria Ofori-Baodu 349
Shattering the Glass Ceiling: What Women in Uganda Need
to Make it to the Top, Harriet Diana Musoke 366
Law Reform and Effective Implementation as the Means to
Economically Empower the Ugandan Woman, Sarah B Lubega 379
Conclusion
National Human Rights Commissions: Ghana, Uganda,
and Tanzania, Vanessa Brocato 391
Contributors 403
Index 417 |
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