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Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: a social history of Zimbabwean literature Get access Teachers, Preachers, Non-Believers: a social history of Zimbabwean literature, by Flora Veit-Wild. Hans Zell Publishers, London, Melbourne, Munich and New York, 1992. xii+408 pp. £45 hardback. ISBN 1 873836 155. Dambudzo Marechera: a source book on his life and work, by Flora Veit-Wild. Hans Zell Publishers, London, Melbourne, Munich and New York, 1992. xvi+419 pp. £55 hardback. ISBN 0 905450 97 3....

One of the legacies of apartheid is a crisis in South African education. The existing formal structures of education cannot cope with the scale nor the nature of the educational needs of the vast majority of South Africa's population. This article explores the potential role that sports programmes can play in non-formal educational provision. Within an action research format, the research project utilized the apprenticeship model of social organization for the general development of 10-year...

Ambulatory rural school children in the Mombasa area with P. falciparum parasitaemia were examined and randomly assigned to treatment with one of three second-line antimalarials--amodiaquine, pyrimethamine/sulphadoxine (P/SD) and pyrimethamine/sulfalene (P/SL). Clinical signs and parasitaemia were followed daily for the first week and on days 14 and 28. WHO Mark II schizont inhibition tests were performed for all the above 3 drugs and chloroquine. The total number of cases was 73. The mean...

Since 1964 there have been six earthquakes of M w ≥ 5.5 in east Africa whose centroid depths have been demonstrated to be in the range of 25–40 km. These depths are significantly greater than the 5‐ to 15‐km range typical of most other regions of continental extension. The March 10, 1989 earthquake ( M w 6.1) in Malaŵi is the first such deep event to have occurred within the main topographic expression of the late Cenozoic east African rift system. Its focal mechanism and depth (32 ± 5 km)...

A study undertaken in 1991 focused on the role fulfilment of the preceptor in staff development in training hospitals in Namibia. As in the case in many countries the nursing service climate in Namibia is characterised by constant change in the practice of professional nurses. The preceptor must accompany the professional nurses in their personal and professional development.

Previous articleNext article No AccessEducational Policy-Making in Colonial Zambia: The Case of Higher Education for Africans from 1924 to 1964Gatian F. LunguGatian F. Lungu Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Volume 78, Number 4Fall 1993 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.2307/2717416 Views: 16Total views on this site Journal...

Disability among the aged is an issue of growing importance to southern Africa as it is throughout the world. New methods and debates about disability and ageing are illustrated by a discussion of the Australian situation. First, trends in mortality and life expectancy are outlined, and the debate about the compression of mortality critically examined. Second, the same techniques of analysis are applied to disability and handicap rates derived from national surveys. The hypothesis of...

This study surveyed reports of practices of corporal punishment at secondary schools in Lesotho by 60 randomly selected pupils. There were 34 males and 26 females, whose mean age was 21 years, with a range between 14 and 29 years. Responses to a questionnaire confirmed that punishment was associated with pupils' reports of academic impairment, psychological damage, and physical injury.

Recent reform initiatives have placed the responsibility for effectively educating students with special learning needs in general education. A driving belief of the "general education initiative" is that more students can be effectively served in general classrooms than is currently the case. Two areas (i.e., school climate and parental involvement) that must be discussed if such reform efforts are to make a real difference are presented in this article. Practical suggestions are provided...

A group of Zambian primary school children with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities was studied together with nondisabled peers. Observations were carried out in two situations: an “experimental” situation where manipulations were made to investigate subsequent increases in social interaction, and a “natural” situation without any manipulations. Several interventions were tested at intervals separated by baselines. Although play-skills training of children with disabilities resulted...

We describe the evaluation of a program for training veteran Ethiopian immigrants to be health educators/cultural mediators. This educational intervention project was designed to lower the risk of transmission of HIV and HBV among the immigrants who arrived in Israel in "Operation Solomon", May 1991. The training program was designed to teach the biomedical model of HIV transmission and its prevention, and to allow the trainees to explore their feelings about people with HIV/AIDS in order to...

Journal Article Before the Wind Changed: People, places and education in the Sudan Get access Before the Wind Changed: People, places and education in the Sudan, by Ina Beasley and edited by Janet Starkey. Oxford University Press, 1992. xxiv+483 pp. £30.00 hardback. ISBN 019 726110 8. K. M. E. WOOD K. M. E. WOOD London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 369, October 1993, Pages 630–631,...

I looked on with bemusement as an attractive female passed a note to a young man in the first row. Some trite vulgarities were exchanged, my more restive classmates started singing, and the teacher was all but completely ignored. Welcome to the civics course at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, a lower-middle to middle-class suburb of Washington, D.C. Though the above scene is a commonplace to American students, as a recent immigrant raised in a poor but industrious village...

Introduction In fall 1990, total enrollment of African American students in institutions of higher education was only 9.2 percent compared to 80.2 percent for whites. made-up only 9.7 percent of undergraduate enrollment compared to 79.3 for whites, and only 5.9 percent of graduate students compared with 86.7 percent for whites (National Center for Education Statistics, Table 194, 1992). Yet, African American student-athletes are over-represented in revenue-generating intercollegiate sports...

A thesis submitted to the Board of Post-Graduate Studies, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Award of a Master of Science Degree in Development Planning and Management, 1993.