- Title
- New Beginnings in an Ancient Region: well-being in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Creator
- Moller, Valerie, Roberts, Benjamin J
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- book chapter
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/61701
- Identifier
- vital:28050
- Identifier
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-39101-4_7
- Description
- In this chapter, we trace the well-being of people living in the sub-Saharan region of Africa over time, focusing on what are universally considered to be main ingredients of the good life in modern times: health, education, and the income and resources needed to meet basic needs and to prosper. The people of sub-Saharan Africa do not have a common identity, but we have isolated some of the experiences and commonalities that bind the people of the region. The glory of earlier civilizations and of traditional religious beliefs and rituals that cemented the social order and the disruption of African society by foreign incursions during the period of discovery and the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism all had their impact on the African imagination. Well-being in Africa south of the Sahara suffered when people living in Africa were oppressed and exploited between the fifteenth and early twentieth centuries. The winds of change in the 1960s brought freedom and a new sense of dignity. Since independence, there are signs of improvements in key domains of life, but the modern states of sub-Saharan Africa are still addressing the many political and development challenges they face. Optimism and resilience are characteristic of the people living south of the Sahara who have faith that their dreams of a better life will come true.
- Format
- pdf, 54 pages
- Language
- English
- Relation
- The pursuit of human well-being: the untold global history, Møller V., Roberts B. (2017) New Beginnings in an Ancient Region: Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Estes R., Sirgy M. (eds) The Pursuit of Human Well-Being. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Cham, The pursuit of human well-being: the untold global history 161 215 2017 9783319391014
- Rights
- National Library of South Africa
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the National Library of South Africa Copyright Act
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Moller, Valerie (Prof Emerita)
RU Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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