This book investigates the challenges facing the African family and their multiple effects from an extremely broad perspective. The contributors explore the nat

African Families in the Twenty-First Century explores the idea that the family is the basic unit of society and an enduring multifunctional institution in Afric

This book examines the promises as well as the challenges the demographic dividend brings to sub-Saharan Africa as fertility rates in the region fall and the la

Africa is poised on the edge of a potential takeoff to sustained economic growth. This takeoff can be abetted by a demographic dividend from the changes in popu