Clifford O. Odimegwu - Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda in Africa

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This book is an outcome of a conference on Family Demography and Post-2015 Development Agenda which was held at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2016. The completion of this book would not have been possible if not because of the commitments of the contributors, the reviewers, and my personal staff.

I would like to thank all the authors of the individual chapters, which were peer-reviewed, for submitting their work for publication in this volume and the peer-reviewers and Springer reviewers for their dedication, timely reviews, and comments to the authors. These comments were helpful in improving the quality of the chapters. And to the authors, I am greatly indebted to you for your timely response to the reviewers comments.

I would also like to thank Prof. Linda Richter, the former director of DST/NRF Center of Excellence in Human Development at Wits University, and Prof. Sarah Mosoetsa, the director of South Africa National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, for their support to host the Conference on Family Demography and to Evelien Bakker and Bernadette Deelen-Mans, the Springer editors, and their entire crew for their role in the production of this book and support.

Finally, I would like to thank my family for tolerating my many absence, my postdoctoral fellows for actively participating in my research lab, and my dedicated administrative, MS Elizabeth Oguntosin, for her efficient administration of my academic projects.

It is my candid hope that this seminal work on family demography in Africa will be helpful to stimulate further research in this field.