Inclou bibliografia i índex.

Introduction to the study of African families : a framework for analysis / Yaw Oheneha-Sakyi and Baffour K. Takyi -- Continuity or change : family law and family structure in Tunisia / Mounira M. Charrad and Allyson B. Goeken -- Diversity and family : examples from Egypt / Bahira Sherif-Trask -- The Sudanese family : past reflections and contemporary realities / Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban -- Senegalese families : the confluence of ethnicity, history, and social change / Loretta E. Bass and Fatou Sow -- Structural change and continuity in the Ivorian family / N'Dri Thérèse Assiè-Lumumba -- The family in Ghana : past and present perspectives / Elizabeth Ardayfio-Schandorf -- The Nigerian family : contrast, convergence, continuity, and discontinuity / Obioma Nnaemeka -- Reflections on the changing family system in Cameroon / Chuks J. Mba and Martin W. Bangha -- Kenyan families / Miroslava Prazak -- Development, family change, and community empowerment in Malawi / Agnes M. Chimbiri -- Family life in Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa / Sylvia N. Moeno -- The study of African families : concluding remarks / Baffour K. Takyi and Yaw Oheneba-Sakyi.

Examines the notion of family and its deeper meaning in the historical context of the African experience, while explaining the roles that modernization, urbanization, and migration play in the transformation of families in post-colonial Africa.