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In theory, formal state institutions can be designed in order to manage ethnic and other conflict in divided societies. However, quantitative empirical research has found mixed evidence that institutional engineering generally works. This paper argues that this is because most studies have neglected that the success of institutional engineering may depend on the exact character of divisions. Trying to contribute to filling the gap, this paper develops several innovative measures of...
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Building an elementary school, developing mathematics curriculum, and training teachers in Rural Uganda is a task filled with many challenges due to the lack of resources and high levels of poverty in the area. Embedded in these challenges are opportunities for creativity and leadership as teachers begin to shift from an education framework based on rote memorization and learner passivity to one that includes collaboration, active learning, and teaching for understanding.
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Namibia’s decolonization process was one of lengthy international negotiations involving the anticolonial movement, the United Nations, the Western powers, the Soviet bloc, the non-aligned movement and in particular the African states, after the liberation movement SWAPO launched a diplomatic offensive in combination with the decision to resort to armed struggle since the late 1960s. Emerging as the sole official agency representing the aspirations of the Namibian people during the late...
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The study examined the food security status and the socio-economic effects of climate change on rural farming households in Delta State, Nigeria. The main objective of the study was to determine the food security status of the rural farming households in the state while the specific objective was to determine the socio-economic effects of climate change on rural farming households in the state. Multistage sampling procedure was used in the random selection of local government, communities...
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Malnutrition is a quiet pandemic affecting millions of people throughout the world. It has high Public Health significance because of the sheer number of people affected by malnutrition, the fact that vulnerable populations disproportionately suffer the effects of malnutrition, and because these effects are severe, long lasting, and cumulative. Also, malnutrition exacerbates the cycle of poverty inherent in most under-developed countries. This essay designs a community health assessment,...
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Mother's formal schooling-even at the primary level-is associated with lower risk of child mortality, although the reasons why remain unclear. This study examines whether mother's reading skills help to explain the association in Nigeria. Using data from the Demographic and Health Survey, the analysis demonstrates that women's reading skills increase linearly with years of primary school; however, many women with several years of formal school are unable to read at all. The results further...
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My paper deals with samplers, i.e. pieces of needlework, that were produced by African girls in mission schools in Sierra Leone in the first half of the nineteenth century. Today, they are museum exhibits and collectors’ items. I have traced 13 pieces in museums and private collections on four continent (but not in Africa). These samplers are fascinating objects which tell two different stories: the story of their production and the story of their use. The former is part of the history of...
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This study examines the factors that have influenced students at the University of Botswana to select accounting as a major and to establish at what stage the decision was made. There is need for renewed research to examine how students perceive accounting as a major especially given the challenges that the accountancy profession has been faced with over the past decade. Data was collected from final year accounting students at the University of Botswana who were majoring in accounting using...
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Nosocomial infections have long been neglected in Sub-Saharan Africa, and hand hygiene (HH) is usually neglected in hospital settings. This study aimed to provide baseline data on HH compliance among health workers and HH resources in a large West African teaching hospital.A cross-sectional, unobtrusive observational study assessed personal and care-related HH compliance among doctors and nurses and HH resources in 15 service provision centres of the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Ghana,...
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The present study seeks to explore the factors that may be related to a career choice in the public vs. the private in a developing African country. Perry and Wise (1990) developed the concept of public service motivation to explain why individuals may be motivated to serve the public. Studies conducted in this domain have been conducted in Western, developed countries in the West. We test public service motivation theorizing on their generalizability to developing countries in Africa, and...
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Starting in 1946, the French government invested an unprecedented amount of money in its overseas territories through FIDES, a French acronym for Investment Funds for Economic and Social Development. Catholic schools were among the projects financed. Focusing on Benin and Senegal, this paper analyzes the stated goals and justification for such an investment. It compares this rationale to the educational outcomes of the schools as experienced by the students who attended them, as well as...
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The contemporary art photography movement in Mali dates to the founding of the Bamako Photography Biennale in 1994, while the movement’s efflorescence depends upon local photography schools engendered by this continent-wide exhibition. Elsewhere I have examined the profound effect that Promo-Femme, a school for women photographers, had on diversifying the gender demographic of photographers in Bamako. This paper discusses other important venues for the dissemination of ideas in photography,...
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There is need for periodic evaluation of medical students' performance in professional medical examinations.This helps to identify possible gaps in teaching and may offer solutions that could redress such situations.This study is an audit of medical students' performance in 2 nd MBBS professional examinations in physiology at the University of Nigeria Medical School over a 7 year period (2004 -2010).Data were collected from the Department of Physiology of the university.A total of 2152...