African Minds - Böcker

Various forms of academic co-operation criss-cross the modern university system in a bewildering number of ways, from the open exchange of ideas and knowledge, to the sharing of research results, and frank discussions about research challenges. Em...

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Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resourc...

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It,s been ten years since open data first broke onto the global stage. Over the past decade, thousands of programmes and projects around the world have worked to open data and use it to address a myriad of social and economic challenges. Meanwhile...

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African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms. In addition, traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impa...

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Whether and how higher education in Africa contributes to democratisation beyond producing the professionals that are necessary for developing and sustaining a modern political system, remains an unresolved question. This report, then, represents ...

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Universities and economic development in Africa: Pact, academic core and coordination draws together evidence and synthesises the findings from eight African case studies. The three key findings presented in this report are as follows: 1. There is...

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Identity has become the watchword of our times. In sub-Saharan Africa, this certainly appears to be true and for particular reasons. Africa is urbanising rapidly, cross-border migration streams are swelling and globalising influences sweep across ...

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South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical root...

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This nine-country study of higher education financing in Africa includes three East African states (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), five countries in southern Africa (Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa), and an Indian Ocean islan...

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The 2011 Transformation Audit presents a collection of articles by South African thought leaders, which asks how the country can set goals and achieve them in a hostile global climate that threatens developmental gains that have been painstakingly...

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Few African countries provide for an explicit right to a nationality. Laws and practices governing citizenship effectively leave hundreds of thousands of people in Africa without a country. These stateless Africans can neither vote nor stand for o...

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This report is the first independent, substantive and public assessment of the progress of the African Union. "e;Towards a People-Driven African Union: Current Obstacles and New Opportunities"e; analyses the preparations of African Union m...

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This report on the broadcast media in Nigeria finds that liberalisation efforts in the broadcasting sector have only been partially achieved. More than a decade after military rule, the nation still has not managed to enact media legislation that ...

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This report on the broadcast media in Nigeria finds that liberalisation efforts in the broadcasting sector have only been partially achieved. More than a decade after military rule, the nation still has not managed to enact media legislation that ...

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This report is the result of research that started in 2008 with the aim of collecting, collating and writing up information about regulation, ownership, access, performance as well as prospects for public broadcasting reform in Africa. The Zimbabw...

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Uganda,s broadcast media landscape has witnessed tremendous growth in recent years. While the public broadcaster remains the dominant national player , in terms of reach , in both radio and television, commercial broadcasters have introduced a sub...

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This report is an in-depth study of electoral commissions in six countries of West Africa ,Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone , assessing their contribution in strengthening political participation in the region. As instit...

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The African Union (AU) has committed to a vision of Africa that is ,integrated, prosperous and peaceful , driven by its own citizens, a dynamic force in the global arena, (Vision and Mission of the African Union, May 2004). This guide is an effort...

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The independence of Mozambique in 1975 and its decolonisation process attracted worldwide attention as a successful example of inational unityi. Yet, the armed conflict that broke out between the government and the guerrilla force in 1977 lasted f...

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For several centuries Cape Town has accommodated a great variety of musical genres which have usually been associated with specific population groups living in and around the city. Musical styles and genres produced in Cape Town have therefore bee...

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Looking at two smaller-scale systemic school improvement projects implemented in selected district circuits in the North West and Eastern Cape by partnerships between government, JET Education Services, and private sector organisations, this book ...

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This publication is the result of a baseline study of the state of the higher education systems in the five Portuguese speaking countries in Africa (PALOP): Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe. The project was u...

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Driving Change tells a story that exemplifies a basic law of physics, known to all , the application of a relatively small lever can shift weight, create movement and initiate change far in excess of its own size. It tells a story about a particul...

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