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(1) The British authorities preferred the term “ahlia” to the term “national”, because of the political connotations of the latter. “Ahlia” is a derivation from the Arabic word “ahli”, the meaning of which approximates to that of the English word “family” in its broader sense.
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Publicity arising from the Sahel drought of 1968-73 provided the stimulus for the United Nations Conference on Desertification held in Nairobi in 1977. This paper is a personal assessment of what might be learnt from the Conference and what might be done in the future to combat drought and prevent desertification in the Sahel and elsewhere in Africa. Although droughts are natural in origin all evidence suggests that desertification results from the removal of the vegetational cover by man...
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A descriptive epidemiology of the distribution in the General Out-patient Department (G.O.P.D.) of 1974 in the University of Benin Teaching Hospital (U.B.T.H.) Benin City, Nigeria was undertaken between January and July 1976. The G.O.P.D. records of 1974 in the U.B.T.H. Medical Report Department were the source of collecting data. Analysis of the age distribution of the patients attending the Out-patient Department in 1974 showed that out of the total 58,192 patients, the 0–4 years age group...
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Journal Article Education and Power in Nigeria Get access Education and Power in Nigeria, by P. Beckett and J. O'Connell. Hodder and Stoughton, 1977. 244pp. Appendices. £6, paperback. MARGARET PEIL MARGARET PEIL Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 310, January 1979, Pages 126–127, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097056 Published: 01 January 1979
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Journal Article The African Artisan: Education and the Informal Sector in Kenya Get access The African Artisan: Education and the Informal Sector in Kenya, by Kenneth King. Heinemann, London, and Teachers College Press, New York. 1977. viii+226pp. £4.80, paperback. MARGARET PEIL MARGARET PEIL University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 78, Issue 310, January 1979, Pages 135–137, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097062 Published: 01 January 1979
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'!'he present study is an attempt to apply Holmes' Problem approach to the staggering modernity stride in the Arab Republic of Egypt since 1952. Throughout the whole period, various documents have been keen on expressing the leaders' zeal for the establishment of a modern state both politically and economically. However, the outcome has been disappointing. An inapt adult base in terms of unmodified internalised attitudes and inadequate skills, has made the realisation of modernity proposals...