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This paper is based on an ethnographic research project in an urban neighbourhood of Liverpool. The aim of the study is to build an understanding of the communicative and symbolic roles of languages and literacies in the Liverpool Somali community, which forms part of a Somali diaspora within Britain and beyond. The role of literacy in the Somali community is of particular interest in the context of a vigorous oral tradition and of the relatively recent introduction of a writing system for...

This note discusses issues in building the educational base for computer graphics growth in developing countries, particularly in southern Africa. It is based on a delegation's visit to southern Africa in the spring of 2001 and on a workshop organised by the authors at the University of Botswana in June 2002.

The study explored factors influencing compliance with medical regimen among patients with chronic renal failure (CRF) at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex (OAUTHC), IIe-Ife. It particularly examined the effects of religion, health belief, educational status, patients' perception of illness, financial status and family support, on compliance with medical regimen.

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of life event on African-American college students as a function of optimism. One hundred and six African-American college students attending a Historically Black College participated in this study. After obtaining informed consent, all participants were administered the questionnaire package (Student Stress Scale, Perceived Stress, Life Orientation Test, and demographics). As expected, individuals who scored high on measures of optimism...

Botswana is the country with the highest HIV infection rate in the world. Most people who become infected with HIV are young and potentially productive. This is why the education sector, which deals with young people, should be looked upon as one of the key sectors in Botswana society to intervene in the present developments. In Botswana, HIV / AIDS awareness programmes have so far not officially been introduced into the school curriculum. This explains why the majority of schools do not to...

The significant extent to which maternal education affects child health has been advanced in several sociodemographic-medical literature, but not much has been done in analysing the spatial dimension of the problem; and also using graphic and linear regression models of representation. In Ghana, very little has been done to relate the two variables and offer pragmatic explanations. The need to correlate the two, using a regression model, which is rarely applied in previous studies, is a...

Abstract This article examines the early experience of the school governing bodies established in South Africa following the 1996 South African Schools Act. It relates the emergence of school governance to wider issues of democracy and participation and assesses the composition of governing bodies, notably the inclusion of learners. Governing bodies' powers include provision to set fees, subject to parental approval, and the paper examines how this requirement impacts on the resources...

Abstract This article examines the early experience of the school governing bodies established in South Africa following the 1996 South African Schools Act. It relates the emergence of school governance to wider issues of democracy and participation and assesses the composition of governing bodies, notably the inclusion of learners. Governing bodies' powers include provision to set fees, subject to parental approval, and the paper examines how this requirement impacts on the resources...

Abstract This article examines the early experience of the school governing bodies established in South Africa following the 1996 South African Schools Act. It relates the emergence of school governance to wider issues of democracy and participation and assesses the composition of governing bodies, notably the inclusion of learners. Governing bodies' powers include provision to set fees, subject to parental approval, and the paper examines how this requirement impacts on the resources...

Abstract This article examines the early experience of the school governing bodies established in South Africa following the 1996 South African Schools Act. It relates the emergence of school governance to wider issues of democracy and participation and assesses the composition of governing bodies, notably the inclusion of learners. Governing bodies' powers include provision to set fees, subject to parental approval, and the paper examines how this requirement impacts on the resources...

The paper evaluates the impact of Uganda’s program of “Universal Primary Education” which, starting from 1997, dispensed with fees for primary enrollment. We find that the program was associated with a dramatic increase in primary school attendance, that inequalities in attendance related to gender, income, and region, were substantially reduced, and that school fees paid by parents decreased at the primary but not at the secondary level. At the same time, the general decline in the quality...

This article explains the academic disengagement of a critical mass of high school students in Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, as resulting in part from emerging personal subjectivities and new social networks. Based on a year of ethnographic research in 1994–95, the article describes the authority these young people attributed to their own perceptions of the limited opportunity structures facing them and to the idealized village‐based egalitarian student identity being circulated through...

Models predicting current habitat availability for four prominent tick species in Africa (Boophilus decoloratus, Amblyomma hebraeum, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Hyalomma truncatum) were constructed using remotely sensed information about abiotic variables and a point-to-point similarity metric. Year-to-year variations in the forecasted habitat suitability over the period 1983-2000 show a clear decrease in habitat availability, which is attributed primarily to increasing temperature in...

This study investigates the extent of nurses' involvement in postnatal health education using a national sample of 325 nurses in Botswana.

Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP), and in the context of a particular 'brand' of academic culture, at an African university, that is in a society with a very different historical and cultural background, involves more than just language teaching. In this paper, after a brief sketch of the historical and sociolinguistic conditions, EAP is contrasted with African oral performance (orature) as this relates to discursive conventions amongst a community of African students. Following...

The recently active Rabaul volcano on the island of New Britain in eastern Papua New Guinea is associated with a subduction zone located near the triple junction formed by the Pacific, South Bismarck and Solomon lithospheric plates. Analysis of our 1997 seismic tomography survey of the Rabaul caldera reveals the P-wave velocity structure to a depth of about 12 km using both explosive and earthquake seismic sources. The Rabaul volcanic complex is formed by a series of caldera collapse...