Wagadu Volume 5: Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice - Softcover

Zheng, Tiantian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1436386640 ISBN 13: 9781436386647

Publisher: Xlibris, Corp., 2008

Synopsis

This volume of Wagadu A Journal of Transnational Womens and Gender Studies launches its third printed edition. Wagaduthe Soninke name of the Ghana Empirecontrolled the present-day Mali, Mauritania and Senegal and was famous for its prosperity and power from approximately 300-1076 CE. It constituted the bridge between North Africa, the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern worlds and Sub-Saharan Africa. Ghana gave birth to the two most powerful West African Empires Mali and Songhay. The modern country of Ghana (former British Gold Coast) derives its name from the Ghana Empire. Why Wagadu? Wagadu has come to be the symbol of the sacrifice women continue to make for a better world. Wagadu has become the metaphor for the role of women in the family, community, country, and planet. In this volume the authors grapple with the intersecting discourses on anti-trafficking, human rights, and social justice, edited by Tiantian Zheng, associate professor of anthropology at SUNY Cortland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris, Corp.
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1436386640
• ISBN 13: 9781436386647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98