The social categories of labor in Africa as a whole

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• The working-class history in general of Africa as a whole

Million Dollar Initiative to Help African Women Farmers

By Thalif Deen, IPS, 13 September 1999. Micro credit for peasant producers.

Africa's forgotten tribe: Who would be a mother?

By Elisabeth LeQueret, Le Monde diplomatique, January 2000. Women represent 80% of the workforce used for producing food. Unpaid, kept away from access to land, property, credit and inheritance. Their sisters in the towns, scarcely better off, also end up with the hardest and least remunerative tasks. Lack of education has driven them en masse into the informal sector.