The family is one of the most important institutions of African societies. Where is it going today? How is it affected by global processes, cultural and politic

Most African nations have high levels of cultural and linguistic diversity. Family structures and kinship models are thus often the result of local cultural his

Examines the notion of family and its deeper meaning in the historical context of the African experience, while explaining the roles that modernization, urbaniz

In a book that is at once a vividly detailed memoir and a richly researched work of scholarship, the son of an African-American mother and a Congolese father us

Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book emphasize the developmental o