C Bawa Yamba
Biographic Data
| ID | 637899 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Bawa Yamba |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Bawa |
| FAMILY NAME | Yamba |
| SIGNATURE | YAMBA C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Diakonhjemmet Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pregnancy loss: Spontaneous and induced abortions among young women in Lusaka, Zambia
An estimated 60% of all adolescent pregnancies in low-income countries are unintended. The present study was carried out at the university hospital in Lusaka, Zambia over a four-month period in 2005. The aim was to explore experiences of pregnancy loss and to ascertain the girl's contraceptive knowledge and use and their partner's involvement in the pregnancy/abortion. Eighty-seven girls aged 13-19 years admitted to hospital for incomplete aborti…
Dealing with uncertainty in contemporary African lives
The articles in ‘Dealing with Uncertainty in Contemporary African Lives’ are based largely on work in Tanzania which has been spared much of the turmoil that elsewhere has uprooted populations and
Zambian male adolescents' perceptions about premarital sexual relationships
The role adolescent boys play in premarital sexual activities, gender power relations, and the reproductive health risks they are exposed to, has received little attention in research. This qualitative study has aimed to explore Zambian male adolescents' perceptions and expectations about premarital sexual relationships. Seven focus group discussions were conducted between November 2000 and May 2001, in George and Chimwemwe compounds, with 53 boy…
The Vindication of Chaka Zulu: Retreat into the Enchantment of the Past
The article deals with two competing explanations advanced by local people in a Zambian village to make sense of the presence of man-eating crocodiles in the area. One faction explains the events in rational terms, while the other sees them as the work of witches, as a result of which they demand the return of a witchfinder, whose activities a decade ago had left 16 people dead. The article shows how the competing explanations are reflections of …
Growing up in an era of Aids
During the past two decades the upbringing and livelihood of children in sub-Saharan Africa has gained immense attention in the realms of social science international aid and the media. While there is no doubt about the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on the lives of young Africans attention is rarely cast on connections between the epidemic and contemporary knowledge and theoretical developments in research on childhood in Africa. This special is…
Loveness and her brothers: Trajectories of life for children orphaned by HIV/Aids in Zambia
A central theme in the contemporary rhetoric of those charged with managing HIV/AIDS interventions is how to handle and alleviate the plight of orphans and other vulnerable children (OVCs). The many glossy documents describing the policy and action plans of funders and organisations involved in AIDS work often highlight these children. Unfortunately, this does not necessarily result in increased support for research about children affected by HIV…
Some Dilemmas of HIV/Aids Prevention and Coping in a Zambia Village
The paper examines the activities of researchers in a multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS prevention project in an African rural setting. Like most such projects on health promotion, it entailed trying to pass on superior knowledge on how to save people from dying of AIDS. It draws on an ethnography that spans over a decade of HIV/AIDS prevention in Zambia to show some of the problems inherent in applied projects that do not problematise the very idea of …
Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa
Discussing the role of African doctors in colonial state and society, this study assesses the emergence of Africa's modern medical service and the contribution of African physicians to an understanding of African diseases and their treatment
The Crown and the Turban: Muslim and West African Pluralism
Cosmologies in turmoil: Witchfinding and Aids in Chiawa, Zambia
Written from the perspective of HIV/AIDS prevention research in Zambia, the article argues that rural Africans now find themselves the target of three competing and contradictory discourses about responsibility, each of which claims to tell them how to lead safe lives free from AIDS. The first, represented by the biomedical paradigm, professes sure knowledge about the aetiology and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS but is unable to cure it; the second, th…
Permanent Pilgrims: The Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan
Other Cultures Other Anthropologists: The Experiences of an African Fieldworker
Kwame Nkrumah, first president of the Republic of Ghana, and the scourge in his heyday, of what he termed “neo-colonialism”, is said to have had a painting displayed prominently in the main hall of his home. It is said to have depicted an outlined of a map of Africa in the midst of which an awakening black giant was shaking off his chains. Fleeing from the continent in terror were three pale Europeans: The first one grasped a suitcase, signifying…
Cosmologies in turmoil: Witchfinding and Aids in Chiawa, Zambia
Written from the perspective of HIV/AIDS prevention research in Zambia, the article argues that rural Africans now find themselves the target of three competing and contradictory discourses about responsibility, each of which claims to tell them how to lead safe lives free from AIDS. The first, represented by the biomedical paradigm, professes sure knowledge about the aetiology and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS but is unable to cure it; the second, th…
Permanent Pilgrims: The Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan
Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa
Discussing the role of African doctors in colonial state and society, this study assesses the emergence of Africa's modern medical service and the contribution of African physicians to an understanding of African diseases and their treatment
Other Cultures Other Anthropologists: The Experiences of an African Fieldworker
Kwame Nkrumah, first president of the Republic of Ghana, and the scourge in his heyday, of what he termed “neo-colonialism”, is said to have had a painting displayed prominently in the main hall of his home. It is said to have depicted an outlined of a map of Africa in the midst of which an awakening black giant was shaking off his chains. Fleeing from the continent in terror were three pale Europeans: The first one grasped a suitcase, signifying…
Other Cultures Other Anthropologists: The Experiences of an African Fieldworker
Kwame Nkrumah, first president of the Republic of Ghana, and the scourge in his heyday, of what he termed “neo-colonialism”, is said to have had a painting displayed prominently in the main hall of his home. It is said to have depicted an outlined of a map of Africa in the midst of which an awakening black giant was shaking off his chains. Fleeing from the continent in terror were three pale Europeans: The first one grasped a suitcase, signifying…
Permanent Pilgrims: The Role of Pilgrimage in the Lives of West African Muslims in Sudan
The Crown and the Turban: Muslim and West African Pluralism
Cosmologies in turmoil: Witchfinding and Aids in Chiawa, Zambia
Written from the perspective of HIV/AIDS prevention research in Zambia, the article argues that rural Africans now find themselves the target of three competing and contradictory discourses about responsibility, each of which claims to tell them how to lead safe lives free from AIDS. The first, represented by the biomedical paradigm, professes sure knowledge about the aetiology and epidemiology of HIV/AIDS but is unable to cure it; the second, th…
Physicians, Colonial Racism, and Diaspora in West Africa
Discussing the role of African doctors in colonial state and society, this study assesses the emergence of Africa's modern medical service and the contribution of African physicians to an understanding of African diseases and their treatment
Some Dilemmas of HIV/Aids Prevention and Coping in a Zambia Village
The paper examines the activities of researchers in a multidisciplinary HIV/AIDS prevention project in an African rural setting. Like most such projects on health promotion, it entailed trying to pass on superior knowledge on how to save people from dying of AIDS. It draws on an ethnography that spans over a decade of HIV/AIDS prevention in Zambia to show some of the problems inherent in applied projects that do not problematise the very idea of …
The Vindication of Chaka Zulu: Retreat into the Enchantment of the Past
The article deals with two competing explanations advanced by local people in a Zambian village to make sense of the presence of man-eating crocodiles in the area. One faction explains the events in rational terms, while the other sees them as the work of witches, as a result of which they demand the return of a witchfinder, whose activities a decade ago had left 16 people dead. The article shows how the competing explanations are reflections of …
Growing up in an era of Aids
During the past two decades the upbringing and livelihood of children in sub-Saharan Africa has gained immense attention in the realms of social science international aid and the media. While there is no doubt about the devastating impact of HIV/AIDS on the lives of young Africans attention is rarely cast on connections between the epidemic and contemporary knowledge and theoretical developments in research on childhood in Africa. This special is…
Loveness and her brothers: Trajectories of life for children orphaned by HIV/Aids in Zambia
A central theme in the contemporary rhetoric of those charged with managing HIV/AIDS interventions is how to handle and alleviate the plight of orphans and other vulnerable children (OVCs). The many glossy documents describing the policy and action plans of funders and organisations involved in AIDS work often highlight these children. Unfortunately, this does not necessarily result in increased support for research about children affected by HIV…
Zambian male adolescents' perceptions about premarital sexual relationships
The role adolescent boys play in premarital sexual activities, gender power relations, and the reproductive health risks they are exposed to, has received little attention in research. This qualitative study has aimed to explore Zambian male adolescents' perceptions and expectations about premarital sexual relationships. Seven focus group discussions were conducted between November 2000 and May 2001, in George and Chimwemwe compounds, with 53 boy…
Dealing with uncertainty in contemporary African lives
The articles in ‘Dealing with Uncertainty in Contemporary African Lives’ are based largely on work in Tanzania which has been spared much of the turmoil that elsewhere has uprooted populations and
Pregnancy loss: Spontaneous and induced abortions among young women in Lusaka, Zambia
An estimated 60% of all adolescent pregnancies in low-income countries are unintended. The present study was carried out at the university hospital in Lusaka, Zambia over a four-month period in 2005. The aim was to explore experiences of pregnancy loss and to ascertain the girl's contraceptive knowledge and use and their partner's involvement in the pregnancy/abortion. Eighty-seven girls aged 13-19 years admitted to hospital for incomplete aborti…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works) · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)