Queen mothers, NGOs, and orphans: Transformations in traditional women's political organization in an era of HIV and orphanhood in Manya Klo, Ghana

References

• Abdulai, A.G. 2009. Political Context Study – Ghana. http://www.polis.leeds.ac.uk/assets/files/research/research-projects/abdulai-ghana-political-context-study-jan09.pdf (accessed 22 January 2011).
   Google Scholar
• Adomako, A.A. 2001. The sex trade, globalisation and issues of survival in sub-Saharan Africa. Research Review NS 17, 27–43.
   Google Scholar
• Adomako, A.A. 2004. Whose ‘unmet need’? Dis/agreement about childbearing among Ghanaian couples. Arnfred, S. (ed.) Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa, 115–138. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala.
   Google Scholar
• Adomako, A.A., Beoku-Betts, J., Njambi, W.N. & Osirim, M. 2004. Women's and gender studies in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa: A review of research in the social sciences. Gender & Society 18, 685–714. doi:10.1177/0891243204269188
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Allah-Mensah, B. 2005. Women in Politics and Public Life in Ghana. Friedrich-Ebert Foundation, Accra.
   Google Scholar
• Allah-Mensah, B. 2007. Women and politics in Ghana: 1993–2003. Boafo-Arthur, K. (ed.) Ghana: One Decade of the Liberal State, 251–279. Zed Books, New York.
   Google Scholar
• Aubrey, L. 2003. Politics of Development Cooperation: NGOs, Gender and Partnership in Kenya. Routledge Studies in Development and Society. Routledge, London.
   Google Scholar
• Awuni, M.A. 2010. Kwesi Pratt damns chieftaincy, Nana S.K.B. Asante says it's good for democracy. http://article.wn.com/view/2010/05/15/Kwesi_Pratt_damns_chieftaincy_Nana_SKB_Asante_says_its_good_/#/related_news (accessed 15 May 2010).
   Google Scholar
• Bennett, S., Boerma, J.T. & Brugha, R. 2006. Scaling up HIV/AIDS evaluation. The Lancet 367 (9504), 79–82. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)67928-2
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bennion, F.A.R. 1962. Constitutional Law of Ghana. African Law Series No. 5. Butterworths, London.
   Google Scholar
• Boaten, N.A.A. 1992. The changing role of queen mothers in the Akan polity. Research Review 8, 90–100.
   Google Scholar
• Brydon, L. 1996. Women chiefs and power in the Volta Region of Ghana. Journal of Legal Pluralism & Unofficial Law 37–38, 227–247 doi:10.1080/07329113.1996.10756481
   Google Scholar
• Buehler, C., Rhodes, K.W., Orme, J.G. & Cuddeback, G. 2006. The potential for successful family foster care: Conceptualizing competency domains for foster parents. Child Welfare 85, 523–558.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Busia, K.A. 1951. The Position of the Chief in the Modern Political System of Ashanti. University Press, London.
   Google Scholar
• Clark, G. 1999. Mothering, work, and gender in urban Asante ideology and practice. American Anthropologist 101, 717–729. doi:10.1525/aa.1999.101.4.717
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cohen, R. 1977. Oedipus Rex and Regina: The queen mother in Africa. Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 47, 14–30. doi:10.2307/1159191
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Deku, S.A. 2005. Participation of Women in Politics in Ghana: A Case Study of Jamestown (1992–2004). BA dissertation, University of Ghana, Legon.
   Google Scholar
• Fallon, K.M. 2003. Transforming women's citizenship rights within an emerging democratic state: The case of Ghana. Gender & Society 17, 525–543. doi:10.1177/0891243203253657
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Family Health International. 2006. Process Evaluation of the START Program. Family Health International (FHI), Arlington, VA.
   Google Scholar
• Farrar, T. 1997. The queen mother, matriarchy and the question of female political authority in precolonial West African monarchy. Journal of Black Studies 27, 579–597.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fayorsey, C. 2006. Gender, culture and governance: Ghanaian queen mothers as leaders in development. Odotei, I.K. (ed.) Chieftaincy in Ghana: Culture Governance and Development, 651–678. Sub-Saharan Publishers, Accra.
   Google Scholar
• Field, M. 1940. The Social Organization of the Ga People. Crown Agents for the Colonies, London
   Google Scholar
• Field, M. 1943. The agricultural system of the Manya-Krobo of the Gold Coast. Journal of the International Institute of Africa 14, 54–65.
   Google Scholar
• Field, M. 1965. A unique stool. Man 65, 165.
   Google Scholar
• Fortes, M. 1960. The structure of unilineal descent groups. Ottenberg, S. & Ottenberg, P. (eds.) Culture and Societies of Africa, 163–189. Random House, New York.
   Google Scholar
• Foster, G. 2002. Understanding community responses to the situation of children affected by AIDS: Lessons for external agencies. Sisask, A. (ed.) One Step Further: Responses to HIV/AIDS, 91–115. Elanders Novum, Gothenburg
   Google Scholar
• Freund, B. 1998. The Making of Contemporary Africa: The Development of African Society Since 1800. Macmillan Press, Houndmills.
   Google Scholar
• Ghana AIDS Commission. 2010. Ghana's Report on the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) Declaration of Commitment on HIV and AIDS: January 2008 – December 2009. Ghana AIDS Commission, Accra.
   Google Scholar
• Ghana AIDS Commission, Ministry of Women and Children & Ministry of Manpower and Youth and Employment. 2005. National Policy Guidelines on Orphans and Other Children Made Vulnerable by AIDS. Ghana AIDS Commission, Accra.
   Google Scholar
• Ghana AIDS Commission and United Nations Development Programme. 2003. A Study of the Status of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Ghana: Towards the Formulation of National Policy. Ghana AIDS Commission, Accra.
   Google Scholar
• Ghana Statistical Service. 2005. 2000 Population and Housing Census: Eastern Region, Analysis of District Data and Implications for Planning. Ghana Statistical Service, Accra.
   Google Scholar
• Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Health Service & ICF Macro. 2004. Ghana Demographic and Health Survey 2003. ICF Macro, Calverton, MD.
   Google Scholar
• GhanaWeb. 2011. Obinim is a fake pastor – Kennedy Agyapong. http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID = 216184 (accessed 12 August 2011).
   Google Scholar
• Gilbert, M. 1993. The Cimmerian darkness of intrigue 1: Queen mothers, Christianity and truth in Akuapem history. Journal of Religion in Africa 23, 2–43.
   Google Scholar
• Goody, E.N. 1982. Parenthood and Social Reproduction: Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa. Cambridge University Press, New York.
   Google Scholar
• Grannis, S.W. 2011. Hope Amidst Despair: HIV/AIDS-Affected Children in sub-Saharan Africa. Pluto Press, London.
   Google Scholar
• Greenstreet, M. 1972. Social change and Ghanaian women. Canadian Journal of African Studies 6, 351–355. doi:10.2307/484207
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Henaku, B. 2010. Lower Manya Krobo to combat falling standards in BECE. http://edition.myjoyonline.com/tgnews/print/index.php?url = http://edition.myjoyonline.com/pages/education/201004/44723.php&contentid = 44723 (accessed 15 April 2010, updated 12 March 2013).
   Google Scholar
• Huber, H. 1963. The Krobo: Traditional Social and Religious Life of West Africa People. Vol. 16. The Anthropos Institute, St. Augustine, Bonn.
   Google Scholar
• Kaplan, F.E.S. 1993. Images of the queen mother in Benin court art. African Arts 26, 54–63, 86–88.
   Google Scholar
• Little, K. 1972. Voluntary associations and social mobility among West African women. Canadian Journal of African Studies 6, 275–288. doi:10.2307/484202
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Landsberg-Lewis, L. 2007. Grandmothers to grandmothers: The dawn of a new movement. Stephen Lewis Foundation, Toronto.
   Google Scholar
• Lund, R. & Agyei-Mensah, S. 2008. Queens as mothers: The role of the traditional safety net of care and support for HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in Ghana. GeoJournal 71, 93–106. doi: 10.1007/s10708-008-9145-9
   Google Scholar
• Manuh, T. 1988. The Asantehemaa's court and its jurisdiction over women: A study in legal pluralism. Research Review, New Series 4, 50–66.
   Google Scholar
• McNeil, M. & Malena, C. 2010. Demanding Good Governance: Lessons from Social Accountability Initiatives in Africa. World Bank, Washington DC.
   Google Scholar
• Mensah, N.P.W. 2010. Nana Yaa Asantewaa: The Queen Mother of Ejisu: The Unsung Heroine of Feminism in Ghana. Master's thesis. Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto.
   Google Scholar
• Middleton, J. 1979. ‘Home-town’: A study of an urban centre in southern Ghana. Journal of the International African Institute 49, 246–257.
   Google Scholar
• Mikell, G. 1995. African structural adjustment: Women and legal challenges. St. John's Law Review 7, 7–26.
   Google Scholar
• Nkansah, M. 2009. Advocating for Increment in the Number of Women in Public Office in Ghana: From Independence to 2008. Master's thesis. Department of Education and Health Promotion, University of Bergen, Bergen. https://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/3486?language = no (accessed 22 January 2011).
   Google Scholar
• Obeng-Asamoa, P.K. 1998. The Mate-Koles of Manya Krobo. Master's thesis. Department of History, University of Ghana, Legon.
   Google Scholar
• Okonjo, K. 1976. The dual sex political system in operation: Igbo women and community politics in midwestern Nigeria. Hafkin, N.J. & Bay, E.G. (eds.) Women in Africa, 45–58. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
   Google Scholar
• Pellow, D. 1978. Work and autonomy: Women in Accra. American Ethnologist 5, 770–785. doi:10.1525/ae.1978.5.4.02a00080
   Google Scholar
• Rattray, R.S. 1969 [1923]. Ashanti. Oxford University Press, London.
   Google Scholar
• Republic of Ghana. 2005. Report to the UN Committee on the Convention on the Rights of the Child: Supplementary Report. Republic of Ghana, Accra.
   Google Scholar
• Ritzenthaler, R. 2005. Delivering Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource-constrained Setting: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya and Rwanda. Family Health International, Arlington, VA.
   Google Scholar
• Robertson, C. 1984. Sharing the Same Bowl? A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.
   Google Scholar
• Robinson, M. & Friedman, S. 2005. Civil society, democratisation and foreign aid in Africa. IDS Discussion Paper 383. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton. http://www.kubatana.org/docs/cact/mrsf_dem_foreign_aid-africa_050401.pdf (accessed 11 February 2011).
   Google Scholar
• Sauvé N., Dzokoto, A., Opare, B., Kaitoo, E.E., Khonde, N., Mondor, M., Bekoe, V. & Pepin, J. 2002. The price of development: HIV infection in a semiurban community in Ghana. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 20, 402–408.
   Google Scholar
• Shillington, K. 1992. Ghana and the Rawlings Factor. St. Martin's Press, New York.
   Google Scholar
• Steegstra, M. 2005. Dipo and the Politics of Culture in Ghana. Woeli Publishing Services, Accra.
   Google Scholar
• Steegstra, M. 2009. Krobo queen mothers: Gender, power, and contemporary female traditional authority in Ghana. Africa Today 55, 104–25. doi:10.2979/AFT.2009.55.3.104
   Google Scholar
• Stoeltje, B.J. 1997. Asante queen mothers: A study in female authority. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 810, 41–71. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48124.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stoeltje, B.J. 2003. Asante queen mothers: Precolonial authority in a postcolonial society. Research Review NS 19, 1–19.
   Google Scholar
• Wilson, L.E. 1991. The Krobo People of Ghana to 1892: A Political and Social History. Ohio University Press, Athens, OH.
   Google Scholar