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Abstract Since the earliest days of European expansionism, Africa has held a dual place in the Western imaginary, cast as a space of futurelessness even as white futurities were predicated on its exploitation. Appropriations of the future have persisted post-liberation, revealed in the divestment of futurity from bodies marked as queer or disabled. Drawing on historical moments and literary texts from Mozambique, Uganda and Zimbabwe, and on insights from queer theory, critical race theory...

In South Africa, the smallholding-farming system is a dominant economic activity in rural communities. This study examines smallholder-farmers’ perceptions in regards to climate changes, in comparison with evidence from meteorological data from 1980–2015, across Vhembe District; data from a questionnaire and recorded meteorological were used. The results reveal that, farmers’ perceptions of climatic conditions are consistent with meteorological details on climatic change. In other words, the...

This chapter adopts Karen Barad’s agential realism as a theory to de/colonise teacher education. For an agential realist knower, subject and object, mind and body, theory and practice are always in relation. One binary does not exist without the other independently – they are a sympoietic system ontologically. Hence, theorising involves literally being in touch with the world. Teaching and researching are not located in human agency separate from the world representing them through...

School environment affects the teaching-learning process. This paper presents the findings of a study undertaken to investigate the influence of school environmental factors on the teaching-learning process in public primary schools in Bungoma south sub-county, Bungoma County, Kenya. A descriptive survey research design was used. The target population was the Head Teachers/deputy head teachers, Class Teachers, and Pupils in the Public Primary Schools in Bungoma south Sub-county, Bungoma...

This research was embarked upon to find out about knowledge of HIV/AIDS, its sources and behaviour change of undergraduate university students of Ekiti State University, South west Nigeria: Implications for counselling. In order to carry out the investigation, the researcher formulated three research questions and one hypothesis to guide the investigation. The instrument used in the collection of data is “Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, its Sources and Behaviour Change Questionnaire” (KHASBCQ). The...

Natural hazard governance in countries in the Global South is shifting from a state-centered approach, which has predominantly focused on disaster risk management, with limited involvement of citizens, and a disaster response to a hazard event, to an approach which is more participatory, inclusive and proactive. This emerging approach aims to be transformative, as it draws on the knowledge and skills of multiple actors, including community members; focuses on risk reduction and adaptation;...

Background The individual knowledge of the effects of tobacco usage on health plays an important role in its uptake. Tobacco consumption usually starts during adolescence, and lack of knowledge about the oral problems of tobacco usage probably plays a role in it. Aim To determine the knowledge of adolescents about the effect of tobacco usage on oral health. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1,465 adolescents aged 12 to 20 years who attended senior secondary schools in a...

Disaster risks are very common occurrences within Kenyan secondary schools.Most disasters afflicting Nairobi City schools of the public category include fire outbreaks, student unrest, terror threats and strikes which have caused harm to humans and property in a number of incidences.Nevertheless, the concept of disaster risk management in secondary schools in Nairobi has so far not attracted much attention of researchers.The study objects were: to investigate school managers' training mode...

Agriculture is the most important sector of the national economies in West Africa. However, the agricultural sector is faced with numerous challenges (declining soil fertility and land degradation, adverse climate change manifestations, demographic pressure, market instability and incidence of crop pests and diseases, etc.), compromising its ability to be a driving engine out of food insecurity and poverty. With the growing challenge of climate change and variability in West Africa, the...

Climate change has started and its effects will continue to emerge on agriculture and food security with wide spread implications for the earth’s eco systems and human development across sectors. From fluctuations in oil palm yields, increases in drought, floods and changes in patterns and quantity of rainfall, the exacerbation of poverty, to the break down of infrastructure, to the pollution of the environment, loss of environmental, political, economic and social security, the impacts of...

This study investigated principals’ characteristics in terms of qualification, area of specialization and experience as the determinant of students’ academic performance in senior secondary schools in Katagum senatorial zone of Bauchi State. The instruments used to collect relevant data wereself-designed questionnaire tagged Principals’ Characteristics and Students’ Academic Performance Questionnaire (PCSAPQ). National Examination Council (NECO) results documentary analysis was also used to...

Teacher education is a program offered in Nigeria by different teacher education institutions for (pre and in-service teachers), various challenges still confront the program and the implementation of its reform. This paper focused on the context of teacher education reforms, its crisis involved and the challenges in the implementation of its reform in Nigeria. The paper finally suggests among others that government should set up committee or commission to oversee the implementation of the...

This paper is about raising the quality of ESP in Moroccan engineering schools. Actually, ESP in Morocco faces lot of pedagogical challenges that impede the teaching of ESP courses.These challenges should be tackledin order to move this field forward and help engineering students achieve their objectives and meet their needs adopting present situation analysis and target situation analysis. Having said this, the ultimate objectives of this paper is to explore the ESP teachers’ perspective on...

Africa has experienced in recent years a high growth and relatively sustained of approximately 5 to 6% on average, reaching even 8 to 9% in some countries. However, despite this constant growth, growth in Africa has not been a poverty reduction factor as dominant as it could have been due to the high levels of poverty and inequality. Therefore, African countries need reliable and comprehensive indicators intending to evaluate the growth, which is more than a growth resulting in economic...