ABSTRACT
This chapter examines living arrangements of children in Africa and assesses their implications on schooling. A vast majority of literature points to changing living arrangements in Africa (Bongaarts 2001; Noumbissi and Zuberi 2001; Zulu and Sibanda 2005; Dungumaro et al. 2006; Dungumaro 2008). While changes in living arrangements in Western societies occurred during the agricultural and industrial revolutions, changes in Africa took place in the absence of such revolutions (Goody 1989), leading to various impacts on diff erent population segments.
