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This study considers and seeks to assess the socio-economic challenges of students with disabilities at the University of Gondar, particularly at the Maraki campus. The findings of the study, therefore, are believed to show the challenges of students with disabilities and attempt to reckon the barriers which they face while attending school in the study area. To acquire sufficient and detailed information, both qualitative and quantitative research approaches have been utilized. Besides, to...

In this study, we assessed information literacy skills of secondary school students in Gaborone, Botswana and established whether and how they are being taught IL skills. The study employed the Big 6 model and was a case study design in which qualitative methods were used. The findings showed that students had low to fair information literacy skills in problem definition, information search strategy, and location of information. Use of information, synthesis, and evaluation were areas of...

One of the 12 critical areas for change highlighted in the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) is the education of girls and women, in particular the participation of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines. While South Africa has introduced several policies to address the low enrolment and graduation of women in STEM, African women continue to be under-represented in these disciplines. Furthermore, African women in STEM disciplines, a traditionally White...

This article explores the development of small grains (sorghum, millet, and rapoko) production and marketing in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) over the colonial era from 1890 to the 1970s. Using primary archival and secondary sources, it examines how different factors, including the advent of white settler capitalist agriculture and shifting global food trends, shaped small grains production and marketing over varying economic, environmental, and political periods in the colony. During the...

Air temperature is one of the fundamental indicators of Climate Change in any place on earth. Understanding the changing patterns of air temperature in Yobe State is instrumental in establishing the manifestation of Climate Change in the area and to enables the policy makers to design the best mechanisms to cope with the vagaries of increasing temperature. This study examined the changing patterns of temperature in Yobe State as an evidence of Climate Change. The study used mean monthly...

Taking an ethnographic turn, this paper does not offer any definitive contemporary solutions towards decolonising dance teaching and training practices in South African but offers instead, as the title suggests, ruminations on an embodied and personal dance journey that reflects on two distinct pedagogical arenas; the first is a need to re-evaluate and assess the viability of chosen dance training methods (or what we might call technique) and secondly, the cognate teaching practices....

Introduction: As of March 1st, 2020, many governments embarked on nationwide school closures due to the deadly coronavirus pandemic. As the month of March came to an end, about 185 countries across the globe had closed their schools. This affected about 90% of the world’s students and Africa was significantly hit by this closure. The speed of these closures and the rapid move to distance learning gave very little time for planning or any other alternative form of learning. In Uganda, the...

Using a panel database of 48 Sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2012 that we partially constructed, this paper analyses the structure of housing finance in Africa, its determinants, and its impact on inclusive growth. We find that market capitalization and urbanization are key positive determinants of housing finance, while a post-conflict environment is conducive to greater housing finance development. This result suggests that housing finance is driven by standard market forces of...

Large animal tracks, unequivocally attributable to terrestrial mammals, are reported for the first time in sediment from uppermost Bed I (Tuff IF; ∼1.803 million years ago) at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. One track in particular (attributed to the ichnogenus Pecoripeda) retains an exceptional level of detail, demonstrating the excellent trackway-preserving potential of the volcanic ash fall (tuff) layers at this important hominin archaeological locality. Olduvai Gorge is renowned for its...

Poor water sanitation and hygiene practice can be associated with increased morbidity and mortality. The study aimed to determine the effectiveness of health education intervention using information, motivation and a behavioural skill model on water sanitation and hygiene (WASH) practice among adolescent girls in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council, Borno State, Nigeria. A school-based cluster randomized control trial was conducted among 417 adolescent girls (10 to 19 years old) in four schools....

Efficient allocation of adaptation finance resources hinges on precise indices of human climate vulnerability measurement for targeting the most vulnerable and prioritized institutional development pathways. Climate vulnerability numerical index has the potential to identify vulnerable groups, regions and livelihood sectors in setting adaptation finance flow towards vulnerable households and key economic sectors. We analysed human vulnerability to climate hazards in Southern rainforest of...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, national and international organisations have recently multiplied efforts to support agroecology. As in the rest of the world, they present agroecology as an approach offering high potential to help farmers adapt to climate change while improving their labour conditions and autonomy. Four agroecological initiatives are scrutinised in northern Senegal from the perspective of their modes of production. While each of those initiatives considers farmworkers’ labour...

The university, like any constitutive and participative element in society, has a great role in the reconstruction of the individual. And it is supposed to improve knowledge and get rid of negative situation that threatens its weakening Our reflection lies in the efficiency of academics in their society and its effect on sustainable development, in which we will enumerate roughly the problems of the Tunisian University, the responsibility of each institutional component. Secondly the...

The coronavirus pandemic affected the whole world in 2020, with high pressure on the health sector, many deaths, reduced business activity, rising unemployment rates, travel restrictions and social distancing. These developments have had severe consequences for all areas of every society around the globe. This also includes education. In many countries, primary and secondary pupils and university students alike were sent home as schools and universities closed abruptly as part of efforts to...

Microplastic pollution has been recognized as a global threat in marine environments and a danger to prey, predators and humans. Yet there have been limited studies in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) and along the Kenyan coast making it difficult to estimate the extent of such pollution. This is the first study on microplastics (MPs) in the surface waters within creeks (Tudor, Port-Reitz and Mida creeks) in Kenya. Sampling was done in January/ February and September 2018 to collect...

Abstract Background: The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has had many impacts on the education sector. The pandemic has had negative impacts on the academic activities of nursing students globally. Therefore, we assessed the impact of the COVID- 19 on the academic activities of final year nursing students in Lusaka and Mufulira Districts of Zambia. Materials and methods: This was a cross-sectional study that employed quantitative methods using a structured questionnaire among 196...

It is important to investigate children's eating habits based on different eating behaviors such as satiety responsiveness (SR), slowness in eating (SE), food fussiness (FF), food responsiveness (FR), enjoyment of food (EF), desire to drink (DD), emotional under-eating (EUE), and emotional over-eating (EOE). The main objective of this research was to investigate whether gender affects the eating habits of Nigerian school children.A cross-sectional survey was conducted between March and June...

It is important to investigate children's eating habits based on different eating behaviors such as satiety responsiveness (SR), slowness in eating (SE), food fussiness (FF), food responsiveness (FR), enjoyment of food (EF), desire to drink (DD), emotional under-eating (EUE), and emotional over-eating (EOE). The main objective of this research was to investigate whether gender affects the eating habits of Nigerian school children.A cross-sectional survey was conducted between March and June...