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A four-yr prospective study was undertaken to examine the natural history of IGT in 128 South-African Indians classified as such at year 0 of the study, based on WHO criteria. Subjects were reexamined at year 1 and year 4. Of the 113 subjects who completed the study, 50.4% progressed to NIDDM (rate of progression 12.6%/yr), 24.8% persisted with IGT, and 24.8%, reverted to NGT. The majority (72%) who progressed to NIDDM did so in year 1. At year 1, 47 subjects were still classified as IGT; of...

The central objective of the population policy and plan of action adopted by Rwanda in 1990 is to achieve balance between population growth and growth in production in order to improve living conditions and promote family welfare. The quantified objective is to reduce the rate of growth from 3.6% in 1990 to 2% in 2000, which would mean a decline in average family size of women at age 50 from 8.5 to 4.0. The contraceptive prevalence rate which was .9% in 1983 and 12.6% in 1991 would increase...

As studies in Western countries have shown, scores on test anxiety increase with age during elementary school. Whether such a difference would be observed among African university students who ranged in age from 18 to 35 years was examined. The difference in mean scores on the Achievement Anxiety Test for two groups, ages 18 to 25 years (n = 132) and 26 to 35 years (n = 267), was not statistically significant.

Prior research has shown a sex difference in scores on test anxiety, with men having a lower mean score than women. The present study was undertaken to confirm such a difference among African university students, but the t ratio was nonsignificant for means of 28.4 for men and 28.0 for women ( SDs of 5.3 and 5.0).

This article describes the current situation with regard to the inclusion of special education services for blacks in South Africa. The article begins with some historical remarks about general education in South Africa. These remarks are followed by a discussion on the relevance and applicability of special education in a changing South Africa. Implications for addressing inequality in education and the need for equal special educational opportunities are also covered.

Nigeria generally has overlooked the health needs of its adolescents. To determine student perceptions of their health-related needs, some 600 students in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State, were surveyed, and they identified several concerns. Their responses provided the basis to offer five recommendations for action: improve the quality of school health service facilities and personnel available in the secondary schools; implement a comprehensive national program of drug education and...

Abstract Since Independence in 1975, one of the main roles of the primary school teacher in Papua New Guinea has been to promote community development. Recent policy, however, is aimed at making community development the central focus of primary teaching. This paper argues that such an orientation is likely to result in community discontent, the creation of restrictions on the extent to which worthwhile lifelong learning can take place, and failure to lay the groundwork for a technically...

The paper takes a theoretical overview of the concept of information science as a discipline but specifically analyzes the problems of teaching and producing information science teachers and practitioners in Nigeria. It is regrettably noted that ther

89 fellows of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria in the Faculty of Public Health whose addresses were listed with the College Registrar were interviewed using a Mail Questionnaire. Overall, 53 replies were received after two reminders spread over an interval of two months and an overall waiting period of six months. Findings based on the analysis of these returned completed questionnaires are presented and discussed.

This paper examines the nature of existing traditional herbal and folk methods of family planning, as weil as other sexual practices of women in southern Zimbabwe. Nedeble women and a number of traditional healers (N'Angas) and herbalists were interviewed, using a semi-structured interview technique to elicit information about the use and understanding of contraceptive methods. The analyses show that many women in Zimbabwe use a variety of traditional herbal and folkloric methods, not only...

Awareness is growing throughout the world of the grave environmental damage that has been caused by human activities ad of the disastrous consequences such damage may pose for human survival. The 1992 "Earth Summit" in Rio de Janeiro marked the culmination of a series of preliminary ministerial conferences in Africa and elsewhere that called attention to practices menacing the environment. Africa's underdevelopment is at the basis of practices leading to desertification, deforestation, and...

Journal Article ETHNIC POLITICS IN DJIBOUTI: FROM ‘EYE OF THE HURRICANE’ TO ‘BOILING CAULDRON’ Get access PETER J. SCHRAEDER PETER J. SCHRAEDER Peter J. Schraeder is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University of Chicago. This essay is based on his testimony on 19 March 1992, before a congressional hearing, ‘The Horn of Africa: Changing Realities and U.S. Response,’ sponsored by the Africa Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The...

We studied growth in infected children given one dose (600 mg) or two doses of albendazole per school year. Children were examined and allocated at random within sex by descending hookworm egg count to one of three groups: placebo (n = 93), one dose (1x, n = 96) or two doses (2x, n = 95). Each child was treated and then re-examined and treated 3.6 and 8.2 mo later (Exams 2 and 3). The 1x and 2x groups gained significantly more by Exam 3 than the placebo group in weight (1.1 and 0.9 kg more,...

The program of history writing and teaching Lumumba assigned to Africa - despite its somewhat vague terminology - has not yet been comoletely fulfilled. Africans have been writing and teaching history; more often than not it has been a history of celebration of fathers of the nations, their nation-building proccss or a history accusing/absolving them from the responsibility of aggravating African people's miseries.

The future of sub - Saharan Africa will depend to a large extent on the abilities of the sub - Saharan societies to introduce technological change as a permanent ongoing process. Engineering capacity will be a major factor in fostering this ability. Thus, the development of engineering education should command the attention of human resources and education planners. The goal of a development plan for engineering education is to ensure that the required number of engineers of a specific...

The Miocene Kiahera Formation at its type locality on Rusinga Island in the Kenyan part of Lake Victoria consists of a sequence of alluvial sedimentary and pyroclastic strata and calcareous palaeosols. The 80 m thick formation was formed by braidplain aggradation and pyroclastic airfall in response to volcanism from the nearby Kisingiri volcano. Numerous fining-upward sequences approximately 5 m to 15 m thick make up the bulk of the Kiahera Formation. A complete sequence contains sandy and...