Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda in Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Clifford O. Odimegwu

   Pages 1-8

3. Family Demography in Sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic Review of Family Research

   • Clifford O. Odimegwu, Nicole De Wet, Sunday A. Adedini, Sathiyasusuman Appunni

   Pages 9-56

4. Justice, the “African Family” and Obligations

   • Edwin Etieyibo

   Pages 57-74

5. Theoretical Perspectives on Family Research

   • Lorretta Favour Chizomam Ntoimo, Clifford O. Odimegwu

   Pages 75-82

6. Demography of African Family: Nineteenth to Twenty-First Century

   • Nyasha Mutanda, Emmanuel O. Amoo

   Pages 83-98

7. Family Formation in Africa: Trends in Age at Marriage, Union Types, Patterns and Determinants

   • Emmanuel O. Amoo

   Pages 99-125

8. Union Dissolution - Divorce, Separation, and Widowhood in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trends, Patterns, and Determinants

   • Sunday A. Adedini, Oluwaseyi Dolapo Somefun, Clifford O. Odimegwu, Lorretta Favour Chizomam Ntoimo

   Pages 127-145

9. Demography of Single Parenthood in Africa: Patterns, Determinants and Consequences

   • Lorretta Favour Chizomam Ntoimo, Nyasha Mutanda

   Pages 147-169

10. Adolescent Boys and Girls in Africa: Their Demography, Behavioural Outcomes, Determinants and Consequences

    • Nicole De Wet, Khuthala Mabetha, Palesa Mataboge

    Pages 171-198

11. Family Changes and Their Implications for Child Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis

    • Joshua O. Akinyemi, Stephen O. Wandera

    Pages 199-221

12. Family Changes and Childbearing in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Pedzisai Ndagurwa, Garikayi B. Chemhaka

    Pages 223-242

13. Family Changes and Adolescent Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Oluwaseyi Dolapo Somefun

    Pages 243-258

14. Changes in Families and Households in East Africa

    • Lawrence Ikamari, Alfred Agwanda

    Pages 259-285

15. Family and Household Issues in Northern Nigeria: Change and Continuity

    • Olatunji Alabi, Muazu A. Shamaki, Olusola A. Omisakin, Mustapha Giro, Emmanuel Kolawole Odusina

    Pages 287-300

16. Socio-economic Dimensions of Family Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Vesper H. Chisumpa, Pamela Chirwa-Banda

    Pages 301-353

17. The Role of Family Dynamics in Teenage Pregnancy and Childbearing in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Sibusiso Mkwananzi

    Pages 355-377

18. Family Laws and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Clifford O. Odimegwu

    Pages 379-393

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the structure, determinants and consequences of changes in sub-Saharan African families, thereby representing an Afrocentric description of the emerging trends. It documents various themes in the sub-disciplines of family demography. The first section of the book focuses on philosophical understanding of African family, its theoretical perspectives, and comparative analysis of family in the 20th and 21st centuries. The second section covers family formation, union dissolution, emerging trend in single parenthood, and adolescents in the family. The following section describes types, determinants and consequences of African family changes: health, childbearing, youth development, teen pregnancy and family violence and the last chapter provides systematic evidence on existing laws and policies governing African family structure and dynamics. As such it illustrates the importance of family demography in African demographic discourse and will be an interesting read to scholars and students in the field of demography, social workers, policy makers, departments of Social Development in countries in Africa and relevant international agencies and all those interested in understanding the African family trajectory. 

• Development
• Sustainability
• Changes in sub-Saharan African family
• Afrocentric description
• Philosophical understanding of African family
• Family in the 20th and 21st centuries
• Family formation
• Union dissolution
• Single parenthood
• Childbearing
• Youth development
• Teen pregnancy
• Family violence
• Population studies
• Population health

• Demography and Population Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Clifford O. Odimegwu

Clifford Odimegwu is a professor of demography, social statistics and populationhealth at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. His current research
interests include sexual and reproductive health, adult mortality, fertility, family
demography, health systems and interventions. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of
African Population Studies, and Assistant Editor of African Journal of Reproductive
Health. He has a PhD in Demography and Social Statistics from Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ife, Nigeria, and Certificate in International Health from Harvard School
of Public Health.

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