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Information on the prevalence of hearing impairment and related ear pathologies in children in sub-Saharan Africa is scarce. A pilot study for a clinical trial of simple treatments for chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) in school children in Kiambu district, Kenya, provided information on the prevalence of hearing impairment and ear pathologies. Five-thousand-three-hundred-and-sixty-eight children from 57 randomly chosen primary schools in Kiambu district were examined. Simple otoscopy...

"Straight Talk," a monthly newspaper produced by Uganda's Ministry of Information, provides advice to young people about sexuality, relationships, and sexually transmitted diseases, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The tabloid is inserted in the daily government newspaper, "New Vision," which has a circulation of 40,000; another 30,000 copies are distributed to secondary schools and nongovernmental organizations. The newspaper began in 1993 as part of the media campaign of...

South Africa for Students - History of Southern Africa. By J. D. Omer-Cooper. Second edition. London: James Currey Publishers, 1994. Pp. xiv + 310. £35 (ISBN 0-85255-716-7); £11.95, paperback (ISBN 0-85255-715-9). - Volume 36 Issue 3

A total of 886 primary school children, aged 5 to 9 years, were studied in Ejisu-Juaben district in Ashanti region (Ghana), from June 1 to November 23, 1990, to assess the prevalence of wasting and stunting in the district. Only children enrolled in the first year of the primary school in selected villages were studied. There were 450 males (50.8%) and 436 females (49.2%). The prevalence of wasting and stunting were 44.3% and 54.9% respectively with a slight predominance among females. The...

This paper describes the accounting profession, and the education and training of accountants and accounting technicians in sub-Saharan Anglophone Africa. It reviews professional accounting examinations and degrees, education, practical training and continuing professional education. The paper highlights the weakness in accounting education and training, and recommends a number of measures to strengthen these areas. These include the development of national and regional accounting bodies,...

Existing classifications of West African musics seem to have a limited applicability as models for music education in schools and colleges. Hence, a more comprehensive classification, highlighting a range of syncretic forms, is merged with a structure in Ghanaian drum ensembles to yield a sequential, two dimensional, model. It is then argued that the model can be used as a framework for teaching West African musics in primary, secondary and tertiary educational institutions. A more general...

Aquatic pollution in Côte d'Ivoire is severe in several places. The Ivorian government therefore requested and later obtained technical assistance from the Danish government for the training of personnel and the equipment of an environmental central laboratory and of a pollution combating unit. The structure CIAPOL (Centre Ivorian Anti-Pollution) in charge of setting up the two components of the project, was created by the government of Côte d'Ivoire in May 1991. A coastal and a continental...

This study investigated the differences in Mathematics achievement of senior three (15 year old) boys and girls in single‐sex and mixed‐sex schools in central Uganda. An achievement test consisting of items on arithmetic, algebra, geometry, statistics and probability, and word problems was administered to 383 pupils. The results indicate that although boys’ achievement in mathematics is higher than that of girls, the difference is not significant. Pupils from single‐sex schools performed...

Une etude prospective a ete menee, pendant 13 mois, afin de determiner la prevalence des affections dermatologiques au cours du syndrome d’immunodeficience acquise (Sida) en milieu hospitalier a Lome (Togo). Sur 120 patients (71 hommes, 49 femmes) hospitalises pour Sida et examines au cours de cette periode d’etude, 99 avaient une affection dermatologique (82,5 %). Cette frequence etait de 59,99 % entre 1 mois et 3 mois d’evolution du Sida, contre 81,77% entre 4 mois et 6 mois d’evolution. A...

Abstract This paper introduces the notions of use and exchange value as useful tools in the analysis of the way in which school leavers and their communities attribute value to different kinds of educational experience. Using data from a longitudinal study of school leavers from a Kenyan region, it argues that the exchange value of school leaving exams are ascendant and that vocational programmes, characterised by their use value, appear to have little impact on the initial pattern of value...

In this paper I examine the prospects of Ethiopian children integrating successfully into the Israeli school system. My specific concern is that the children will experience in Israel the same sort of difficulties that beset Afro-Caribbean children in Britain when assimilation and later integration were the dominant concerns of educational policy makers. With particular reference to the Rampton and Swann reports, comparisons between the two groups are made chiefly in terms of racism (both...

Nd, Pb and Sr isotope ratios for nephelinites from the Tertiary Mount Elgon alkaline volcanic centre, eastern Uganda-western Kenya, are highly variable and indicate open system behaviour. The variation in 143Nd144Nd (0.51219-0.51286) and 87Sr86Sr (0.70314-0.70604) ratios span almost the entire range documented for carbonatites from several East African alkaline complexes. The whole rock chemical data, mineralogy, composition of diopside phenocrysts, and variation in isotopic ratios from the...

This article examines how travelers, colonial officials, and educators have treated prayer and other body rituals in Egyptian popular schools. Once the object of colonial critiques of indigenous pedagogy, body ritual has now become the focus of a functionalist discourse that reads bodily postures and movements as natural manifestations of social, ideological, and cosmological structures. Starting from Bourdieu's notion of hexis, the literal embodiment of ideology, the article examines how...

An innovative introductory geology course entitled The Geology and Development of Modern Africa was developed and offered at Hamilton College for the first time during 1994–95. The aims of the course are three-fold: 1) to attract African American students to take geology, 2) to help students draw connections between geology and non-science topics with which they are more familiar, and 3) to teach students rigorous geology in a setting that minimizes lecture and emphasizes hands-on...

To increase the number of African Americans in the accounting profession in the 21st century, more accounting majors must be recruited into graduate programs so that they will meet the 150 hour education requirement ofthe AICPA and a large number of states. Effective graduate program recruitment strategies should consider the influences and perceived benefits that motivate African Americans to pursue advanced degrees. This study surveyed African American undergraduate accounting majors to...