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Previous articleNext article No AccessFocus on Southern AfricaThe Expansion of Mass Education in Botswana: Local and World Society PerspectivesJohn W. Meyer, Joane Nagel, and Conrad W. Snyder, Jr.John W. Meyer Search for more articles by this author , Joane Nagel Search for more articles by this author , and Conrad W. Snyder, Jr. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail...

Similar to former British colonies, especially in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) region of Southern Africa, Namibia inherited an educational system which was very much fragmented on racial and ethnic lines. One major education reform implemented soon after independence and consistent with the constitution and education policy directives, was that all schools were to be desegregated or integrated and were opened to all learners under a unified educational system. One of the...

This study is a secondary analysis of the Second International Science Study (SISS) data for Nigeria, looking at the overall performance of students in science tests and whether their performances differed across different cultural zones. The paper also addressed the issue of ethnic stereotyping in Nigeria. Data for the study were collected in Nigeria in 1984 and covered 11 states at the primary and secondary school levels. The sample size for primary schools is 2152 pupils from 94 schools...

Music making in Africa has been, and is, an essential aspect of living. The philosophy and process of music making in South African schools bares no relevance to this idea. The present situation is that South African music educators are propagating western music education methods, while so-called ‘western’ music educators are turning to Africa to find answers to their perplexing problems. This paradoxical situation highlights the importance of evolving a philosophy and process of...

Abstract A study was carried out to assess the generic prescribing pattern among medical doctors in Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Teaching Hospital, Zaria, Nigeria. The results indicate that 98 (49%) of the 200 drugs studied were prescribed using generic names while 64 (32%) were prescribed using both generic and proprietary names. One hundred and ninety‐two (96%) of the 200 drugs studied are on the Essential Drugs List (EDL), Second Revision 1991 of the Federal Ministry of Health, Lagos,...

Guinea pigs were exposed to 5 and 10 Gy gamma radiation. Hippocampal brain slices were isolated 30 min, 1 day, 3 days and 5 days after irradiation or sham irradiation and the electrophysiological characteristics of the neural tissue were evaluated. Both radiation doses elicited significant changes that were dependent on dose, dose rate and time. Synaptic efficacy decreased soon after exposure to 5 Gy at dose rates of both 1 and 20 Gy/min. Recovery occurred by 5 days. Ten grays at 20 Gy/min...

Previous articleNext article No AccessFocus on Southern Africa"Just Sort of Fumbling in the Dark": A Case Study of the Advent of Racial Integration in South African SchoolsAlan Penny, Stephen Appel, John Gultig, Ken Harley, and Robert MuirAlan Penny Search for more articles by this author , Stephen Appel Search for more articles by this author , John Gultig Search for more articles by this author , Ken Harley Search for more articles by this author , and Robert Muir Search for more articles...

My purpose in this article is to restate the continuing relevance of ‘people's education’ as a necessary mobilising dynamic in the project of social emancipation in South Africa today. The notion of ‘salvaging’ the concept of people's education implies that it is in process of being discarded, made over into something new having served its provisional utility. I want to suggest that this is indeed how people's education is now being viewed and that this perception is premature, even...

Although the general monsoon circulation evolved relatively normally over most of the globe, dry conditions returned to sub-Saharan West Africa. The Northern Hemisphere summer surface temperature continued to be above normal over most land areas, but in general the anomolies were less extreme. The equatorial sea surface temperatures continued to move toward warm episode Southern Oscillation conditions in the central Pacific, but without an accompanying warming in the traditional eastern Pacific El Nino areas.

In view of the rapidly increasing number of AIDS cases reported in Kenya since 1984, a survey was conducted among Kenyatta University undergraduate students during October and November 1988 to gauge their knowledge, attitudes and practices with regard to the disease. A random sample of 344 individuals both men and women was interviewed. The results showed that almost everyone had heard about AIDS and the knowledge was spread evenly across gender. Although the students were able to identify...

The established means of assessment may not measure the actual learning of some students with particular learning styles. Recent studies on reading comprehension strategies used by unsuccessful language learners have revealed that some of these learners use the same kind of strategies at the same frequency as do successful learners. Yet their performance on reading comprehension assessments is appreciably lower. The present study was undertaken to diagnose and aid a group of unsuccessful...

Endemic Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) in Africa has been attributed to a geographically-determined environmental factor. Endemic KS, a chronic nodular condition predominantly affecting the feet and legs, is believed to arise in the lymphatic endothelium and is associated with chronic lymphoedema. As such, KS bears a resemblance to podoconiosis (non-filarial elephantiasis). The prevalence of both conditions in highland areas close to volcanoes suggests a shared pathogenetic relationship to exposure...

This report elucidates the application of the beach morphodynamic concept synthesized by WRIGHT and SHORT (1984) to model the susceptibility of a mesotidal sandy beach along the Nigerian coast to, and self-cleansing of, tar pollution. A 21 month, fortnightly inventory of stranded tar balls at a total of 16 shore- normal t ransects spread over a 6 km stretch of beach was made. Concurrently with the above, beach profile changes and littoral process observations were documented. Due to the...

Of 92 school-age children who had convulsions with fever (CWF) of acute onset, seen in a 1-year period in an emergency room in Benin City, Nigeria, 49 per cent had malaria parasitaemia, 15 per cent bacterial meningitis, 8 per cent focal extracranial infections, and 1 per cent bacteraemia while 27 per cent had acute fever of undetermined origin. The prevalence of meningitis increased with presence of temperature > or = 40 degrees C (P < 0.01), focal seizures (P < 0.05), and rousable coma (P <...

A segment of the Southern Guinea Plateau Margin (S.G.P.M.) was surveyed during the 1988 Equamarge II cruise of the R/V Jean Charcot. Detailed Seabeam mapping reveals a huge 3000 m high volcano which was called the Nadir seamount, culminating at 840 m below sea level, and 6 adventive cones. Volcanics dredged between 2100 and 1300 m of water depth consist of hyaloclastite breccias and subaerial alkali basalts recovered as both massive blocks and eolian pebbles with a desert varnish. The data...

Abstract This paper compares the attitudes of Kenyan and Malawian rural parents to educating girls, using perceptions of gender-specific academic potential, educational aspirations and opinions on the gender appropriateness of primary school subjects and various careers. Suggestions are offered as to how these attitudes affect girls' educational attainment. The paper closes with a discussion of the ways that parents' attitudes affect girls' completion of primary school in Malawi and how the high wastage rate might be cut.

For the vast majority of people in Africa, eye care services are not available. Optometrists have long been practicing in parts of Africa, but optometric teaching institutes have only recently appeared in several African nations.Utilizing interviews, site visits, and a literature review this article presents a survey of the current status of optometric education, the profession of optometry, and eye care needs in Africa.Four countries in Africa have optometric teaching institutes: South...