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Three moderate earthquakes with a maximum intensity IV were felt in the Kribi region in September 1987. Though there were no major damages reported, the phenomenon appeared quite strange to the local authorities and population. Two years later, in July 1989 another light earthquake was felt in the area. This prompted the analysis of the causes of that recent activity which is thought to be associated to the mobile zone/Congo craton margin of Central Africa. Trois séismes modérés avec une...

Abstract The introduction of European schooling into West Africa in the late eighteenth century set in motion a profound cultural transformation. The Mende of Sierra Leone, the target of some of the earliest educational experiments in West Africa, began to reinterpret the Western ideals about the free dissemination of knowledge that were imposed on them. Focusing less on what is taught than how it is taught, the article shows that the Mende have transformed ideals about imparting knowl-edge...

As South Africa moves towards political change at the start of the 1990s, issues of educational transformation have assumed new prominence for post-apartheid planners. This article outlines the crisis of provision in black education, arguing that the challenge is to develop equity policies to redress historical imbalances between races. Using Gramscian theory, the article also explores the crisis of legitimacy in black education. It suggests that the state has relied on coercive measures to...

Viewing persistence in college as a function of the harmony between the student and the institutional environmen4 this study was designed to assess the attitudes and perceptions of incoming African-American first-year students enrolled at a predominantly White urban college during the fall of 1989. A second major component of this study was the comparison of the attrition rates of these 1989 African-American students with their 1984 counterparts. The findings show that despite the initial...

Universities represent one of the most important kinds of scientific institutions in Africa. In addition to offering advanced scientific training, they account for a significant proportion of national research and development activities. But African countries are increasingly unable to support their systems of innovation, including universities, and they are falling behind other developing countries in the production of science. This paper examines the establishment of higher education in...

Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Ivan Evans; Essay Review: Education for an Apartheid-Free South Africa. Harvard Educational Review 1 April 1992; 62 (1): 66–79. doi: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.62.1.05418013885151h3 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote...

Has a long history of coping, getting by and making do, created in SLIS an inability to allow the mind to expand to comprehend the nature and the extent of the resources and equipment they need to create an ideal information education provision? To the well-fed, gourmet meals are expected and demanded. At the starvation end of the eating range even a cold, old sausage seems a feast. SLIS have been living in hopes of cold sausages for years. Their collective digestion is not, perhaps, able any more to conceive of anything better.

Community theater is being effectively utilized as a vehicle for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) education by the Johannesburg City Health Department. A drama developed and produced by the Department's AIDS Prevention Program in 1989 has been presented to over 20,000 people, at factories, canteens, clinics, parks, and community events. The drama, which revolves around a group of friends living in an urban South African township, includes scenes at the workplace, a health clinic,...

The profile and prevalence of a syndrome of somaticised anxiety associated with education in Africa was explored by survey of 2040 senior secondary school students in different types of school: rural, urban, and elite. Response to two different screening methods, an open question to elicit symptoms spontaneously, and the SRQ-24, was compared. Symptom prevalence was higher in rural schools, 34%, than periurban, 22%, and elite, 6%, but the central urban school serving a shanty town was also...

The Effective Black Parenting Program (EBPP), a culturally adapted, cognitive-behavioral parenting skill training program, was field tested on two cohorts of inner-city African-American parents and their first– and second-grade children. Pre-post changes on parental acceptance-rejection, family relationships, and on child behavior problems and social competencies were compared in a quasi-experimental design on two cohorts totalling 109 treatment and 64 control families over 1 year. Results...

Following various national HIV and AIDS awareness campaign activities under the auspices of the Ministries of Health and Education, Zimbabwe, an AIDS KABP survey was undertaken. The study sample comprised 478 high school students randomly selected and stratified to represent sex and Forms 1 through to 6. The study instrument was a 31-item questionnaire designed to assess the students' knowledge, attitudes, practices and sources of information in relation to HIV syndrome. This report reviews...

It is argued that education policy in Africa in the last several decades has favoured curriculum change towards practical or vocational subjects. In Kenya this policy started to emerge in the mid-sixties leading to the launching of the 8-4-4 education system in 1985 with the objective of increasing the scope of vocational subjects in the school system at all levels. The article investigates the state of prevocational subjects in the primary school curriculum with a particular focus on the...

Five-year moving averages of annual rainfall for 21 locations in Niger showed a decline in the annual rainfall after 1960. Correlation coefficients of the moving averages of monthly rainfall with annual rainfall showed significant correlations between the decline in the annual rainfall with decreased rainfall in August. Analysis of daily rainfall data for rainy season parameters of interest to agriculture suggested that from 1965 there was a significant decrease in the amount of rainfall and...

The purpose of the present study was to examine the structure underlying the measured interests of African-American college students. The Strong Interest Inventory (SII; Hansen & Campbell, 1985) was administered to 357 subjects (189 females and 168 males). Intercorrelations among the General Occupational Theme (GOT) scales were (a) compared to correlations computed in the SII reference groups and (b) subjected to a nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis (MDS) to examine the...

In this article, Gail Thomas uses 1988-1989 degree completion data from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights Survey to track the number of Black and Latino students awarded graduate degrees in engineering, mathematics, and science by U.S. institutions of higher education. Her study reveals the severe underrepresentation of Black and Latino students in graduate programs in these fields. Given the changing racial composition of the United States and projected shortages of...

Outlines the Nigerian Government′s new 6‐3‐3‐4 system of education and emphasizes the vital role of libraries in implementing such a policy. Describes the poor state of and provision for libraries in Nigeria and makes recommendations to improve the situation.