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In the context of the World Report on Disability, question how speech-language pathologists (SLPs) change practices to benefit under-served people with communication disability. This commentary provides a South African response premised on Political Consciousness. In South Africa, a grossly unequal society, the under-served population is not only those with communication disability but also include those who are at a communication disadvantage due to disabling conditions. As a consequence of...

Curricula of health education institutions need to be periodically revised to be aligned with its context. This study explored the status of physiotherapy curricula in South Africa as point of departure for benchmarking by individual institutions. A document analysis was done of the university physiotherapy departments (N=8) in South Africa. institutional ethical clearance and permission from the heads of departments were obtained. Content analysis was used to analyse the South African...

The paper provides an analysis of adaptation of fishers' households to climate change around Jebba Lake Basin, Nigeria.Fisheries of Jebba Lake Basin are presented as a system of dynamic trends, seasonality and shock.An analysis of livelihood diversification reveals that some households are more adaptable to environmental change than others.Fishers who have become overly specialised in fishing as sole livelihood activity are least able to adapt.The study thus recommends increased capabilities...

The study examined adaptation practices to climate change among rice farmers in Anambra State, Nigeria.Data were collected from 100 rice farmers by the combination of multistage, purposive and simple random sampling techniques, through the use of interview schedule.Percentage and mean statistics were used for data analysis.The results showed that majority (80.0%) of the respondents were aware of climate change and its adaptation measures in rice production included the use of improved...

In recent times, energy has been the hottest globally discussed subject. On the other hand, environment is the most resilient victim of the energy debate. Consequently, energy and environment are the world’s most unlikely allies. Energy extraction, distribution or consumption constitutes a major cause of environmental pollution. The environmental pollutants from energy related activities are greenhouse gases. Although, cement manufacturing, construction or transportation activities do...

Mammography has been used in developed countries with considerable success but very little is known about this imaging modality in low resource settings. This study examined the level of awareness of mammography and determined factors influencing the level of awareness.We conducted a hospital based cross sectional study to investigate the level of awareness of mammography among 818 randomly selected women attending the General Outpatient clinics (GOP) of the University College Hospital...

Given the role agricultural extension will play in sensitizing and educating farmers on how to mitigate and adapt to climate change, the study was carried out to ascertain the responsiveness of extension workers to climate change. Fifty one extension workers proportionately selected from the four agricultural zones in the state were used for the study. Data were analyzed with percentage, mean score and factor analysis. All (100%) of the respondents had heard about climate change. On average...

The current institutional structures and academic programmes in most universities preclude effective education and capacity building on issues of climate change.Besides, the pedagogies and curricula are centrally defined by university governance structures which are very hierarchical and rigid, and in most cases, discourage the culture of shared thinking and collaboration required for addressing complex system-related challenges such as climate change.The study aimed at influencing...

Entrepreneurship education helps develop entrepreneurial behavior by stimulating students'entrepreneurial skills.Indeed, students can acquire and implement specific methodologies to create, develop and support new activities.Our study will aim to describe and explain the entrepreneurship education in the Tunisian university.This learning is organized around five key areas: the methodology of entrepreneurship; training seminars; socio-economic development; support entrepreneurship and...

The study examined the adaptation strategies to climate change in Oke Ogun Area of South Western Nigeria.A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select two of the ten local government areas in the area, two wards in each LGA,6 communities in each ward, from which a total of 160 out of 800 food crop farmers were randomly sampled.Data were subjected to statistical analysis using frequency counts and percentages.Pearson product moment correlation (PPMC) and chi-square were used to...

The Samaru stream is the major drain of domestic waste of Samaru village, several research‐ ers have lamented the poor state of water quality in the stream Smith (1975), Tiseer et al. (2008 and 2008b), Olubgenga (2009), and Chigor et al. (2011). During a field visit to the Sa‐ maru stream in May 2010, the water in the stream was observed to be blackish in colour with an offensive odour due to sewage pollution. Therefore this study was carried out to evaluate water quality characteristics of the stream.

In West Africa, as in Majority World countries, people with a communication disability are generally cut-off from the normal development process. A long-term involvement of two partners (Orthophonistes du Monde and Handicap International) allowed the implementation in 2003 of the first speech-language pathology qualifying course in West Africa, within the Ecole Nationale des Auxiliaires Medicaux (ENAM, National School for Medical Auxiliaries) in Lome, Togo. It is a 3-year basic training...

The paper present the trend of government programmes and interventions used in tackling the endemic problem of abject poverty.The pluralistic nature of these programmes is encouraged by the dynamic socio-economic circumstances within South Africa domain.Concerns raised from "Towards a Ten Year Review" emphasised the necessity to harmonize all Government's development programmes under a single structure or "Social compact".In view of the importance of agriculture, particularly for developing...

Acute appendicitis and its complications is still the most common cause of acute abdominal pain that will require surgical intervention in most parts of the West African sub-region. This study is a review of our management and outcome of acute appendicitis in the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital [UMTH].A retrospective and prospective audit of all patients with acute appendicitis seen and managed over an 8- year period [2002-2009 inclusive] in the UMTH is presented. Materials used...

<p style="text-align: justify;">This paper explored the myriad problems associated with undergraduate research supervision in social studies and religious education using one of the primary Colleges of Education near Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana as a case study. The study applied qualitative research involving interviews and focus group interviews to solicit information from eight college lecturers and ten final year students doing research in Religious Education and Social...

Foreword Introduction African-Centred Education: Situation the Tradition The Search for Academic Excellence: Toward a New Policy Framework The Fight for African-Centred Schooling in Toronto Engaging Academic Critiques with Critical Responses Teacher Resistance to African-Centred Education: Public Discourse, Race, & National Identity Re-Visioning Educational Opportunity: African-Centred Education Moving Forward: The Track Record of African-Centred Education & the Push for New Alternatives Index.

Climate change is a clear threat to all sectors of the Nigerian socio -economic development including the natural ecosystems.This study ascertained the available sources of information and awareness of government programmes on climate change among rural households in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.The region is Nigeria's largest wetland region and the third largest wetland in the world.Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used in an interactive manner to collect data from 400...

To ascertain frequency and pattern of primary headaches among young Nigerians as represented by medical students in the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, South East Nigeria.This was a cross-sectional descriptive interview-based study using structured headache questionnaire. Consent was obtained and the results interpreted following the guidelines of the International Headache Society.The one year Frequency of headache of any type was 88.3% (86.7% in males and 90.4% in females). The...