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The ca. 2270–1960 Ma accretionary-collisional Birimian Orogen in the southern West African Craton (sWAC) contain a number of volcano-sedimentary series, which were deposited in basins that developed during the regional Eburnean collisional orogeny (ca. 2160–1960 Ma). Understanding their spatiotemporal distribution is thus crucial for constraining the tectonic evolution of the orogenic system. This study presents new LA-ICPMS data on detrital zircon from volcano-sedimentary series in...

Using the 2011 round of the Africa Program for Education Impact Evaluation Survey, we examine the prevalence of corporal punishment and praise in both school and home settings. We find that corporal punishment is highly prevalent, with 70% of students reporting that their teachers engaged in corporal punishment and 11.7% of students reporting being beaten themselves the day before the survey was given. Beating is more prevalent in high quality schools and is associated with lower fourth and...

Using the 2011 round of the Africa Program for Education Impact Evaluation Survey, we examine the prevalence of corporal punishment and praise in both school and home settings. We find that corporal punishment is highly prevalent, with 70% of students reporting that their teachers engaged in corporal punishment and 11.7% of students reporting being beaten themselves the day before the survey was given. Beating is more prevalent in high quality schools and is associated with lower fourth and...

Healthcare worker training is essential to successful implementation of assisted partner services (aPS), which aims to improve HIV testing and linkage-to-care outcomes for previously unidentified HIV-positive individuals. Cameroon, Kenya and Mozambique are three African countries that have implemented aPS programmes and are working to bring those programmes to scale. In this paper, we present and compare different aPS training strategies implemented by these three countries, and discuss...

The impacts of environmental change are generally recognised as the major threats to humans and biodiversity. With respect to nature-based tourism (NBT), the impact of environmental change not only changes the types and distributions of tourist attractions but also interfere with tourists’ comfort and safety. In Tanzania, some environment impact assessments are available, but these do cover neither NBT nor specific attractions and destinations. A major knowledge gap is that tourist...

Ethiopia’s economy has been growing at breakneck speed for well over a decade now, earning the nickname as Africa’s lion. In recent years, the development literature on Ethiopia has paid particular attention to the role of industrial policy, especially the ways in which the Ethiopian experience compares to that of the Asian tigers. But through this comparative-historical perspective, little attention has been devoted to an important aspect of industrial policy in Ethiopia – foreign direct...

In this article, we explore and seek to understand transnational teacher migration from the narrative expressions of two women who migrated from their home countries to another southern African country. The data are complemented by a self-constructed narrative of a woman who left her home country. Framed through Appreciative Inquiry, the study observes that all individuals, organizations, and institutions are powered by positive thought and have some good or something that works well for...

This paper explores understandings of disability in Africa through the personal and collective experiences of a group of postgraduate students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The students, as disabled people themselves or practitioners working in the field across Africa, were required to capture their understanding of disability on the continent in a poster, set as a summative assessment task. What emerges from the students’ posters provides valuable insights into the complex...

The outlook for Nigeria’s 25 million persons living with disabilities has historically been bleak. Most disabled persons lacked access to education, healthcare and employment opportunities that could lift them out of the vicious cycle of poverty and debility. This paper chronicles Nigeria’s awakening to the needs of the disabled and the economic advantage of empowering them versus condemning them to perpetual dependence. The paper examines the evolution of disability laws and policies,...

The study assessed business educators’ knowledge and competence level in pedagogical strategies for implementing inclusivity in the programs in Nigeria. Two research questions and six null hypotheses were used. Mixed research design with quantitative and qualitative approaches was adopted. The sample was 24 subjects from colleges of education in two states. A four-point rating scale questionnaire containing 11 pedagogical strategies, validated by three experts and an interview schedule were...

Hand hygiene is an important health issue globally. It is the single most cost-effective and practical measure to reduce the incidence of Health-care associated infections. One of the main reasons for the spread of infection in the healthcare environment is inadequate performance of hand hygiene. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), lack of knowledge of good hand hygiene practices is associated with poor compliance. This study evaluated the knowledge of Hand Hygiene as a basic...

The practice of online learning can appreciably enhance administrative, communicative, and educational qualities, support learning using scarce resources and limited infrastructure, and encourage educational equity through flexible place and time usage. Although researchers have examined online learning usage within multiple situations, the roles of task-technology-fit (TTF) and compatibility as mediating variables have not been investigated through Delone and Mclean's model of IS success....

WORK-INTEGRATED LEARNING IN AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT FOR WORK-READINESS AND EMPLOYABILITY IN THE AGRICULTURAL VALUE CHAIN

Prior work on data obtained from the urban Johannesburg-Soweto based Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort has documented extensive levels of travel to school in the early post-apartheid era (1997–2003), with fewer than 20% of children attending the age-appropriate school closest to their home (de Kadt et al., 2014). These extremely high levels of schooling mobility impose costs on children and families, as well as the educational system more broadly, and have contributed to the evolution of...

The study investigates how communities in Ankole region of western Uganda are coping with climate change and what strategies they have layed to counteract its effects using primordial (traditional) technologies.The study was carried out in the districts of Mbarara and Isingiro, which are separated by the River Rwizi and are part of the Uganda's cattle corridor.Since the end of the 19th Century, this region has experienced prolonged dry seasons.The main objective of the research was to...

Objective: There is an increasing trend in the global estimates of childhood overweight and obesity presenting major public health crisis in developed and developing countries. We report the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among primary school learners residing in Africa according to different diagnostic criteria and population level characteristics.Design and method: A comprehensive search of multiple databases was...

TEACHING THE ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE AS A LINGUA FRANCA TO CULTURALLY DIVERSE LEARNERS IN A SOUTH AFRICAN SCHOOL