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Abstract Though African‐led engagement with persons with disabilities (PWDs) within varying African churches has been an ongoing project since the 1990s, recent developments in the study of PWDs remain notably absent from mainstream African, religious, or disabilities studies. Calling attention to the interrelation between these three important scholarly fields can help scholars and PWDs alike to conceptualize of the treatment of PWDs in Africa and, more specifically, their role in the...

In 2012, Israel deported 500 South-Sudanese refugee children and their families. A year later, a civil war broke out in the young South Sudan and the deportees, along with over one million South-Sudanese citizens, fled to the neighboring Uganda. Since then, many of these children have studied in boarding schools in Uganda. We explore, using qualitative methods, the perceptions and experiences of six Ugandan teachers all working with these children for at least 5 years. The research is unique...

The recurrence of flooding in recent years in West Africa is dramatically affecting the socio-economic system of most countries in the region. This work is devoted to the analysis of the heavy rains of its last years in the context of global warming in subequatorial Benin through eight rainfall indicators. For this purpose, the daily rains collected at seventeen stations in the south of Benin between 1960 and 2018, the maximum and minimum daily temperatures of the two synoptic stations in...

This study examined the implication of rainfall variability on cassava yield in selected coastal and upland areas of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The climate change is the variation in the distribution of weather patterns (including rainfall, temperature) over an extended period of time, typically decade. Thirty years daily rainfall data were collected from Nigeria Meteorological Agency (1989 – 2018); cassava yield data were also collected from Akwa Ibom State Ministry of Agriculture Uyo (1989...

Abstract Drought phenomena are attributed to water availability deficit that is caused by low precipitation. However, droughts are quite complex and cannot simply be defined on the basis of precipitation as other factors may have an influence. In this study, we investigated the spatio-temporal patterns of droughts in Lake Chilwa Basin, an endorheic lake basin that has recently experienced major recurrent lake recessions. The standardized precipitation index (SPI) and standardized...

Purpose: The study investigated the level of preparedness of secondary school Principals to adopt the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) in Keiyo North Sub-County, Elgeiyo-Marakwet County in Kenya.
 Methodology: It was an explanatory research based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and the public choice theory. A target population of 30 secondary schools Principals and 30 HODs in charge of ICT in Keiyo North Sub-County schools...

Retinol Binding Protein (RBP) is responsible for the transport of serum retinol (SR) to target tissue in the body. Since RBP is relatively easy and cheap to measure, it is widely used in national Micronutrient Surveys (MNS) as a proxy for SR to determine vitamin A status. By regressing RBP concentration against SR concentration measured in a subset of the survey population, one can define a population-specific threshold concentration of RBP that indicates vitamin A deficiency (VAD). However,...

Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) which is the education for young children up to age of eight requires the effort of all stakeholders to provide kids from childhood through primary school age with embedded growth. This study thus, aimed at identifying how learners’ creativity is hindered by the availability of learning resources and the challenges facing the ECDE programs towards creativity development in children in Nakuru East Sub-County, Kenya. The study employed descriptive...

The study investigates Stephanie Idolor’s short video clip on Miss Success Adegor’s school fees payment saga that went viral in social media. The study aims to establish whether discussions on social media have impact on society particularly in the area of school administration. The findings resonated with a high awareness of 78% creating grand means of between 1.556 to 1.784 on all measurable items on knowledge to activate practical experiences at 0.05 level of significant to show that a...

Mobile health (mhealth) tools delivered through wireless technology are emerging as effective strategies for delivering quality training, ensuring rapid clinical decision making, and monitoring implementation of simple and effective interventions in under-resourced settings. We share our early experience of developing and deploying the InStrat COVID-19 health worker training application (App) in Ogun State, Western Nigeria where the country's first COVID-19 case was reported. This App was...

In the present work, the pollution levels of airborne particles in the city of Ouagadougou have been assessed through two campaigns of in situ measurements of PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations. These measures were performed using a portable device (AEROCET 531S) on roadside sites and on sites located in administrative services, secondary schools and outlying districts. Since in situ measurements don’t give any indication of the pollution that could be due to a new source (industrial plant, road,...

The aim of the research was to identify the effect of the factors of impairment at work on achieving organizational effectiveness in the Palestine Technical College in Deir Al-Balah, and to determine the extent of differences in the respondents' perspectives regarding the impact attributable to personal variables (gender, academic qualification, years of service, job title). The sample, which was selected by the simple random method, consisted of (80) male and female employees. A...

Open Educational Resources (OER) aim to open up the access to education for everyone, further enhancing learning quality and facilitating knowledge sharing. Since their official adoption in 2012, OER have gained much attention with various studies being conducted to investigate how educators and students perceive these resources. However, less investigation was paid to OER adoption in developing African countries. Therefore, to promote social justice and facilitate OER adoption in these...

Objective:The purpose ofthis study was to examine the effect of high intensity and moderate intensity football specific circuit training on selected motor fitness variables among football players in Ethiopia. Method:For the purpose of this study random group design was implemented.To achieve this objective 60 football players were taken as the subjects of the study.These subjects were distributed in to three high intensity football specific circuit training group (N1=20), moderate intensity...

The paper reviewed some theories that explain higher education financing. Some aspect of these theories is compared in terms of the theoretical perspective on financing higher education. The historical viewpoint and the tenant of the theories give an insight and possible solution to higher education financing. The purpose of the paper is to illuminate an important policy issues on financing higher education the world over and to contribute to the general debate on the contribution of...

<p>The Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL) in Central Africa hosts numerous volcanic lakes. While Nyos and Monoun lakes in western Cameroon were well studied following the catastrophic release of CO<sub>2</sub> that occurred in 1980s, other volcanic lakes such as those of the Adamaoua Plateau remain less documented. Although some of these (Mbalang and Tizon) have been investigated through their sedimentary archives in order to reconstruct past-environments,...

<p>Cape Verde archipelago is a cluster of several volcanic islands arranged in a westward opening horseshoe shape located in the Atlantic Ocean, between 550 and 800 km-west of the coast of Senegal (Africa). Fogo Island is located in the southwest of the archipelago, and as main feature is a 9-km-north to south wide collapse caldera opened toward the east, within Pico do Fogo volcano rises 2,829 m.a.s.l. Pico do Fogo crater has an area of 0.142...

Abstract Background There is growing recognition of the important role of breakfast in children’s nutrition, and the potential harms related to skipping breakfast, including contributing to obesity and non-communicable diseases. The patterns associated with skipping breakfast may be related to the nutrition transition. This study aims to explore the prevalence of skipping breakfast among Palestinian schoolchildren, the sociodemographic and behavioural patterns associated with skipping...