Journal of African Studies
Online ISSN : 1884-5533
Print ISSN : 0065-4140
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Volume 2015, Issue 88
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  • How Women Choose Their Schooling in Their Life Course:
    The Case of Maale, Southwestern Ethiopia
    Haruka ARII
    Article type: Articles
    2015 Volume 2015 Issue 88 Pages 1-12
    Published: December 31, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: December 31, 2016
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11619/africa.2015.88_1
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    In the discussion of female schooling of Sub-Saharan countries, topics of interest mainly include improvement of female schooling conditions, and the achievement of gender parity. However, a few research has examined the conditions under which individual women selected the action of going to school. Discussion about dropout of female students has been lively and directed toward preventing dropout and allowing more females to attend school, while there is little discussion about education after dropout or about people who did not enter school at school age. This study, taking the community of Maale, southwestern Ethiopia as an example, investigated the process of female schooling with regard to how individual women decided to enter or return to school by interviewing three women who entered or returned to school despite being beyond school age. The research identified two factors that enabled their schooling: (1) the both present formal education system and the communities' social consent to female schooling matched their individual decision making under the circumstances, and (2) they controlled the relationships among closely associated people. In order to achieve sustainable female education, it is important to take the diversity of decision making for individual action in their life courses into considerations.
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  • Intimacy in Silence:
    The Process of ‘Family’ Reconfiguration in Southeast Rwanda
    Yukiko KONDO
    Article type: Articles
    2015 Volume 2015 Issue 88 Pages 13-28
    Published: December 31, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: December 31, 2016
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11619/africa.2015.88_13
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    This study examines how people in southeast rural Rwanda reconstructed their social relationships to survive after the conflict in the 1990s. This paper describes with whom and under what social and political circumstances widows, divorced women, and orphans built their intimate relationships by sharing space and food.
    The Hutu people, who make up the majority of K village, tend to reorganize their social relationships through patrilineal ties. Conversely, some Tutsi people, who lost most of their family members during the conflict, can gain resources by using political interventions (e.g., laws and policies) implemented during the post-conflict period. This has allowed Tutsi women to live independently. Other Tutsis have created intimate relationships with their neighbors, who are mainly Hutus, through daily practices such as borrowing and lending their homes, and sharing space and food. These activities occur due to the Hutu neighbors' responses to the hardship the Tutsi people have faced.
    It is likely that both Tutsis and Hutus form an intimate sphere within each of their ethnic communities in post-conflict Rwanda. Although the government has officially banned ethnicity, political interventions seem to reinforce the boundary between ethnic groups. On the other hand, the fact that some people do not fit into the ‘history’ that was created after the conflict causes them to remain silent; yet the silence itself can act as a response to others' suffering.
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