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ABSTRACT/RESUME This paper examines the pursuit of university studies among Caribbean-origin Black men and women aged 20-24 living in Toronto. Findings from special tabulations of the 1991 census show that a significant proportion of young African-Caribbean immigrants attend university. Participation rates are higher in the second generation (born in Canada) of young Caribbean-origin adults. African-Caribbean women are, moreover, much more likely to attend university than African-Caribbean...
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Par une enquete transversale (sondage en grappes) portant sur la place de la lepre parmi les causes de handicaps physiques en general, nous avons interroge 8 175 individus dans 1 000 menages (500 menages en zone urbaine et 500 autres en milieu rural). Nous avons rencontre 172 cas de handicap physique soit un taux de prevalence de 21 pour 1 000 habitants. La grande partie de ces handicaps a ete observee en milieu rural avec un taux de prevalence de 25,3 pour 1 000 habitants. En ville ce taux...
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In this work, Annette Henry explores and problematizes the challenges, barriers and restrictions facing Black educators who seek to assume control of education for Blacks -- hence the title, Taking Back Control. Henry interviews five African-Caribbean Canadian women educators from Guyana, Jamaica and St. Kitts: Makeda, a school principal, and four classroom teachers, Ese, Inez, Rita and Viv.Henry's study, initially a doctoral thesis, was conducted between January 1989 and June 1991 at...
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My definitions here of the colonial and post-colonial are historical, rather than in terms of changing fashions in literary criticism. In other words, the colonial Shakespeare I explore is the Shakespeare of the period of colonial rule, and the post-colonial Shakespeare the Shakespeare of the post-colonial period. More precisely, I have chosen the 1930s, the twilight decade of the British Empire, to represent the colonial, and the 1980s, the decade of late capital and globalization, to...
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Recent estimates indicate that AIDS has stricken approximately 21 million adults and children in sub-Saharan Africa. Many grassroots organizations were born during the early 1990s in response to the pandemic. Two Population Council researchers undertook four collaborative interventions to strengthen such organizations. Their efforts showed that providing simple, carefully chosen forms of technical assistance can greatly improve the ability of grassroots organizations to achieve their goals....
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A systematic study of some pollution indicators [ammonia (NH4−N), faecal coliforms counts] has been carried out for three years (1993-95) in the urban area of the Ebrié lagoon, evaluating the impact of a sea outfall project. This project, for collecting and forwarding wastewaters of the city of Abidjan to the Atlantic ocean in order to reduce the pollutant load in the lagoon, was initiated in 1994. It failed a few months after the first operation and there is now an overall increase in...
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This document the sixth chapter in a book on women and education in sub-Saharan Africa takes the reader inside classrooms in Guinea to reveal the obstacles and encouragement encountered by school girls. The chapter opens by describing the context and presenting the underlying assumptions of the study. A literature review describes the source of expectations for gender patterns and details are given of the qualitative research methods used in the larger 1994 study from which the case studies...
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Low income African American mothers of elementary school children in Oakland, California, participated in six prevention training sessions that fused education about HIV/AIDS with other life-skills and resources. This exploratory intervention, known as the Healthy Mamas Project, was based on the Theory of Reasoned Action with inclusion of self-efficacy. Responses to a questionnaire at baseline and at 3-month follow up show that all women (N=15) entered the training program with, and...
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Droughts are frequent and severe in many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and have a devastating impact on their peoples and economies. The extreme vulnerability to rainfall in the arid and semiarid areas of the continent and the poor capacity of most African soils to retain moisture result in almost 60 percent of SSA being vulnerable to drought and 30 percent being extremely vulnerable. Since the 1960s, rainfall in parts of the Sahel and Southern Africa has also been significantly...
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The integration of deaf students into regular schools in Zimbabwe is fraught with cultural and political problems. Traditional beliefs that are negative toward disability are still prevalent among many people. The adult deaf community views integration negatively and with disrespect mainly because integration programmes in Zimbabwe do not promote deaf culture. The influences of foreign individuals and organisations of the deaf are at times, in directions that are not compatible with an...
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Report on a study undertaken to determine the use of library resources and services by graduate students at the University of Botswana. The study collected empirical data on graduate students’ use of resources and services. Data were gathered from 144 of 223 graduate students registered for the 1996/1997 academic year. The findings indicated that guidance in the use of library resources and services is necessary to help students meet some of their information requirements. There is a...
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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid GaleDAVID GALE is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.