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Families in Sub-Saharan Africa are undergoing significant transformation within diverse cultural and social contexts. The Evolving Nature of Intimate Relationships and Family Structures in Sub-Saharan Africa provides a nuanced examination of how these changes reshape family life and intimate relationships across the region.
Bringing research that explores how families are shaped by shifting social, economic, and cultural conditions across the region, this volume examines how processes such as urbanization, migration, and globalization interact with longstanding kinship structures and intergenerational relationships. Exploring topics such as how gender dynamics, economic pressures, and religious influences shape everyday family practices, the chapters also consider the effects of digitalization, evolving policy and health challenges. Richly comparative, the book demonstrates that family life in Sub-Saharan Africa must be analyzed as a dynamic set of relationships influenced by local traditions and broader structural change.
Offering an important contribution to family research by foregrounding both continuity and transformation within African contexts, this volume equips readers with a deeper understanding of family change in one of the world’s most diverse regions.
Olufemi Adeniyi Fawole is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.
Sampson Lee Blair is a family sociologist and demographer at The State University of New York (Buffalo), USA.
Milad Bagi is Assistant Professor of demography at Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran.
Chapter 1. The Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Family Affairs: Implications for Social Work Family-Related Services in the Future; Robert Mutemi Kajiita and Eleanor Alvira Hendricks
Chapter 2. Religion and Net-Fertility in Africa: History, Geography, and Culture; Michel Garenne
Chapter 3. Family Structures in Zambia: Continuity and Change; Esther Ng’ambi
Chapter 4. Examining the Implications of Elder Abuse on Family Structure and Relationships in South Africa; Tanusha Raniga and Carmel Murugen
Chapter 5. Family Care Settings and Child Wellbeing: Insights from Kinship Families in Tanzania; Nabwera H. Rashid, Janeth Kigobe, Lucas Wissmann, Getrude Mkinga, Eliud Kabelege, Christina Nelson Mbilinyi, and Tobias Hecker
Chapter 6. Fluid Identities? Lineage Identity among Women in Ghana; Victor Agyei-Yeboah, Eric Y. Tenkorang, and Gervin A. Apatinga
Chapter 7. Cohabitation in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1986–2021: Levels, Trends, and Social Gradients; Souleymane Sanogo and Sangeetha Madhavan
Chapter 8. Negotiating Power and Resilience: Gender Dynamics, Family Relationships, and Women’s Tolerance in the Context of HIV/Aids in Rural African Families; Limkile Mpofu, Zamokuhle Mbandlwa, and Jarrot Mpofu
Chapter 9. Is Contraception Still a Woman’s Business? Men’s Gender Ideologies and Their Implications for Intimate Relationships and Family Formation in Africa; Turnwait Otu Michael
Chapter 10. De-Objectifying Fatherhood Construction in Ghana: Insights from Women’s Professional Voices; Esmeranda Manful and Kwame Adusei
Chapter 11. Families and Adverse Childhood Experiences in South Africa: Insights from Women’s Narratives; Itumeleng Masisi
Chapter 12. What’s in a Name? – Surnames, Identity and Family Culture through J.J. and Another vs Minister of Home Affairs and Another; Tafadzwa N. Mavindidze
Chapter 13. Having a Child with a Rare Disease in a Couple: Cameroonian Mothers’ Perspective; Rose-Danielle Ngoumou