Social Policy in Sub-Saharan African Context

ROSEMARY ATIENO Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya PATRICK BOND Director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa CHACHAGE SEITHY L. CHACHAGE Professor of Sociology, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Member of the Executive Committee of CODESRIA ABDUL-GANIYU GARBA Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria FRED T. HENDRICKS Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Rhodes University, South Africa OKA OBONO Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Fellow of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria; Temporary Advisor to the World Health Organization and the African Programme on Onchocerciasis Control; National Consultant to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) ALFRED OUMA SHEM Analyst at the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis BOLA UDEGBE Senior Lecturer at the Department of Psychology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria

This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa.This volume reviews Africa's past experiences of social policy, with an eye on the future. Contributions examine a range of social policy issues around healthcare, education, the labour market and social welfare, and highlight important conceptual and policy issues for rebuilding Africa.