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The goal of my paper is to argue for the need to polish the pearls of Akan indigenous wisdom as creative cultural eclecticism to constitute a theoretical base for destabilising cultural imperialism and ontological individualism in favour of inclusive social education. Since the sixteenth century, European expansion to the rest of the world, particularly, Africa has imposed an European single narrative on Africans. This is to the extent that, as a result of the colonialization of Africa,...

Machine learning is used to process big data volumes with complex non-linear relationships between predictive variables and predictions. Research into the usefulness of machine learning in small data volumes remains limited. To compare conventional statistical methods and machine learning to predict angiogram outcomes in a small cohort of South African cardiac patients. This is a retrospective study on patients with cardiac risk factors at Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban,...

Humans live in diverse, complex niches where survival and reproduction are conditional on the acquisition of knowledge. Humans also have long childhoods, spending more than a decade before they become net producers. Whether the time needed to learn has been a selective force in the evolution of long human childhood is unclear, because there is little comparative data on the growth of ecological knowledge throughout childhood. We measured ecological knowledge at different ages in Pemba,...

Climate change is aggravating the drought in the fragile drylands of the Horn of Africa. While also is further exacerbating food security in an overharvested, overgrazed, and degraded ecosystem. Sustainable regeneration and domestication/cultivation of native flora (environmentally and culturally adapted to the region) may present an opportunity to combat ecosystem degradation and food insecurity in a hotter and drier foreseeable future. One of these indigenous plants is Yeheb, a small tree...

The highly infectious and deadly coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has accelerated the adoption of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and computer-based instruction (CBI).This book's research is on online pedagogical approaches devised by teacher educators and researchers to circumvent face-to-face (f2f) curriculum delivery, which increases the disease infection rate.This book reports on case studies by teacher educators and researchers on teaching their student-teachers with...

This research integrated bias-corrected results from regional climate models, a watershed hydrology model, and water footprint analysis to measure the impact of climate change on future water scarcity in Lesotho, a water-rich yet data-poor country. Simulations from three climate models with two different Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Representative Concentration Pathways, 4.5 and 8.5, were bias corrected. Streamflows were simulated using the Soil Water Assessment Tool in the Senqu...

Student leadership in South Africa is unsettled and characterised by unrest. The perturbing changes in the higher education system, including global shifts and crises, impact South African student leadership psychologically. Consequently, this article seeks to understand the system psychodynamics of South African student leadership. Data was collected during a social dream drawing (SDD) session with student leaders at a South African university before the onset of the Fees Must Fall...

Islands of the world are facing unprecedented impacts of climate change. Rising temperatures and consequent increasing sea levels have questioned the very existence of these islands and forward a severe threat to their resources. In this regard, the island of Madagascar is not an exception. Southern Madagascar or Great Sud is facing an unprecedented drought which has exacerbated in the last four years, becoming pronounced in 2021 and 2022. It has landed the part of the country into emergency...

Ponte Academic JournalMay 2022, Volume 78, Issue 5 SUPERVISOR AND STUDENT PERPSECTIVES ON THEIR ROLES IN RESEARCH PROJECT: THE CASE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN UNIVERSITYAuthor(s): Motsi QoyiJ. Ponte - May 2022 - Volume 78 - Issue 5 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2022.5.3 Abstract:This paper is based on research undertaken at a developing University in South Africa, Eastern Cape Province. The research explored the roles of the supervisor and student during the conduct of a research project. The study focused...

The outbreak of COVID-19 led to the swift migration to alternate instructional delivery models and pedagogical practices in educational institutions. This study examined the perceived safety of the learning environment and associated anxiety factors among physical education students amidst COVID-19. Using a cross-sectional design, a sample of 638 students drawn purposively and conveniently from a public university in Ghana completed a self-developed questionnaire. Frequency counts,...

Background: Emerging research on suicidal behaviors among adolescents in Ghana has been conducted mainly among senior high school students. Aims: We aimed to estimate the 12-month prevalence of suicide attempts and describe some of the general and gender-specific associated factors among adolescents attending junior high schools (JHSs) in Ghana. Method: We analyzed data from the 2012 Ghana Global School-Based Student Health Survey. The sample consisted of 1,437 adolescents aged 12-17 years....

While indigenous knowledge (IK) has played an instrumental role in enabling sub-Saharan African farmers to adapt to changing environments for decades, it is often perceived as inferior to scientific knowledge. Hence, there is a need for comparisons between IK and scientific knowledge that would allow for a complementary usage rather than a focus on their differences. This chapter seeks to analyse the indigenous indicators farmers in Maseru district in the eastern part of the Kingdom of...

This study examined teachers’ interpretation of the Lesotho Education Act of 2010’s phrase “cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment” and its impact on how learners are disciplined. For some researchers, punishment in schools is associated with corporal punishment. For this reason, researchers often focus on the issue of abolishing corporal punishment, thereby overlooking other non-physical forms of punishment despite them being equally agonising. This study departed from the interpretivist...

Abstract In 2015, Botswana introduced the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as a two-dose schedule in girls aged 9–13 years. We sought to establish a baseline HPV prevalence in unvaccinated young adults in Botswana. HIV-uninfected men and women aged 18–22 years were recruited from the University of Botswana in Gaborone during October 2019–February 2021. Demographic and behavioural characteristics were self-reported during structured interviews. Self-collected vaginal and penile...

The purpose of the paper is to highlight the importance and influence of government policy and education development on the performance of MSMEs in remittance industry at Mogadishu, Somalia.The link to access the questionnaires were distributed via e-mail or WhatsApp to around 400 remittance business owners, however, only 258 responded to the survey.The data analysis was performed using SPSS, and AMOS software.Results from the analysis highlighted that government policy influences MSMEs...