Your search
Results 1,039 resources
-
This report of the inventory of emissions and sinks of greenhouse gases is an initiative towards meeting Lesotho s obligation under article 4 of the Convention.
-
A 10-year review of ruptured gravid uterus at the University Teaching Hospital, Aleppo, Syria showed an incidence of one ruptured uterus in 565 deliveries. This is an average figure compared with published studies but is still high compared with developed countries. Sixty-four per cent of the cases of ruptured uterus had no antenatal care. It is no surprise therefore that maternal and fetal mortality was highest amongst the unbooked labouring women. In survivors the morbidity was also...
-
Testimony from Mozambican garment workers and nurses about how they valued their own experiences of colonial mission schooling represents one aspect of the complex ideologies related to domestic science education for African women.' Criticism of the gender bias of such programs ignores the reality that some women were able to use that education to enter into new arenas of work during and after the colonial era. In this paper I will examine the history of girls' education in colonial...
-
This article investigates the example of a state-funded secondary school in colonial Sierra Leone to get at the natutre of political struggles over education and over knowledge, power, and identity more broadly. Bo School was formed as a school for indigenous chiefs' sons and intended to create a more modern chieftancy to aid in British indirect rule. However, the participants remade the school to suit their own strategic goals. The essay problematizes a simplistic notion of school as a...
-
Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Education in fulfilment ofthe requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION in the Department of Philosophy of Education at the University of Zululand, 1998.
-
An African proverb says, It takes an entire village to raise a child. I first heard this proverb a few years ago when I began my secondary school teaching career at a virtually all-Black high school in the Everglades region of Florida. Since that time, I have often pondered the question, But who will raise the village? In the United States, most of our impoverished inner-city villages lack the qualities necessary for raising healthy, well-balanced children who are adequately prepared to meet...
-
The theory of runs was used in the investigation of frequency of occurrence, duration, magnitude and severity of drought in 46 districts of Zambia, 1886-1996. The 30-year normal rainfall was used as the threshold for drought occurrence with most analyses restricted to the 1921-1970 period. Analysis revealed that rainfall variability, indicated by increasing 11-year coefficients of variation (CVs) for selected stations and decreasing rainfall trends observed in southern Zambia after 1975, was...
-
Numerous Tertiary to recent volcanoes are located in East Africa. Thus, much of the region is made up volcanic rock, which hosts the largest and greatest variety of East Africas caves. Exploration of volcanic caves has preoccupied members of Cave Exploration Group of East Africa (CEGEA) for the past 30 years. The various publications edited by CEGEA are in this respect a treasure troves of speleological information. In the present paper an overview on the most important volcanic caves and areas are shortly reported.
-
Teaching About Technology and African American History Bruce Sinclair Bruce Sinclair Bruce Sinclair is a historian, recently retired from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was Melvin Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 12, Issue 2, Winter 1998, Pages 14–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/12.2.14 Published: 01 January 1998