WAAD-volume8

Ihuoma F. Abaraonye Gender Relations in Ibibio Traditional Organizations	5
Fatima L. Adamu Purdah System and Structural Adjustment Program: A Study in Modes of Coping by Purdah Women in a Period of Economic Crisis	17
'Biodun Adediran Women, Rituals, and Politics of Precolonial Yorubaland	33
Eunice E. Adiele Widowhood Practices in Igboland: An Examination of the Role of Christian Churches	49
A. E. Afigbo Widowhood Practices in Africa: A Preliminary Survey and Analysis	63
Funso Afolayan Women, Politics, and Society in Precolonial Igbomina	95
Biko Agozino The Victimization of African Women as Punishment	107
Samira Amin Ahmed Women Traditional Practices as Power Mechanisms: A Study of Sudanese Women in Diaspora	125
Olayemi Akinwumi The Place of Women in Borgawa Society	147
Sylvia Ada Akpala Eradication of Discriminatory Laws and Regulations Affecting Women in the Nigerian Civil Service	161
Olu Emmanuel Alana Women Leadership in the Cherubim and Seraphim Church: A Liberation of Womanhood from Paul's Fetters of Conservatism	177
Eberechukwu Maria Anosike Trends in the Political Development of the Nigerian Woman	189
Uche Azikiwe Widowhood Practices in Nigeria: Case of Afikpo Community	205
Gloria J. Braxton Political Leadership in Liberia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Role of Female Chiefs and Tribal Governors	217
Norma J. Burgess Work and Family Life: Sociohistoricism, Social Support Networks, and African American Women	233
J. O. Charles Women Migration, Intercultural Marriage, and Regional Development: Problems and Prospects of Women Based Communication and Development Strategy in Africa.	245
Brenda K-J. Crawley 21st Century Policy Issues of Older African-American Women: Challenges and Choices	261
Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson The Sisterhood of our Lady of Good Death: The African Face of a Roman Catholic Sodality in Northeastern Brazil	277
Violeta I. Ekpo Colonialism and Change in the Social Status of Women in Southeastern Nigeria: The Ibibio Women Experience	285
Donna K. Flynn Multiple Gender Ideologies and an Academic Means of Empowerment: A Yoruba Example	299