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2. Training for Adult Education in Africa: Papers from the Fourth Conference of the African Adult Education Association (Khartoum, Sudan, 28 December 1968 - 4 January 1969).
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African Adult Education Association, Lusaka (Zambia).
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A collection of documents from the Fourth Conference of the African Adult Education Association includes minutes of the general meeting and discussion groups, the secretary's annual report, and some of the papers presented at the conference. The primary emphasis was on personnel training, and most of the papers dealt with training techniques and the programs of particular countries or institutions. Illiteracy, night schools, part-time teachers, community development, inservice training, and the folk school approach were among topics receiving particular emphasis. Diploma programs in adult education were described. Some comparisons between European and African personnel training and adult education were made. [Not available in hard copy due to marginal legibility of original document.] (mf)
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- 1969
3. Pre-School Opportunity and Sex Differences as Factors Affecting Educational Progress. Series in Education, Occasional Paper No. 2.
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Rhodesia Univ., Salisbury., Orbell, S. F. W., Orbell, S. F. W., and Rhodesia Univ., Salisbury.
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This document is a collection of three papers originally prepared as part of a series of public lectures presented by the Faculty of Education at the University of Rhodesia. Each paper stresses the vital need to examine assumptions made about the pupil in school to see whether provisions made for him are really in accordance with his present and future needs. Titles of the three papers are: "The Early Years: The Vital Years of Childhood,""Sex Bias as a Variable in Primary Education," and "Sex Differences in Scientific and Mathematical Competence at Adolescence." (Author/JMB)
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- 1973
4. Assistance to Libraries in Developing Nations: Papers on Comparative Studies.
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Wisconsin Univ., Madison. Library School. and Williamson, William L.
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The papers presented at a one day workshop on the aspects of comparative librarianship are presented in this volume. The topics discussed are: (1) Methods and Evidence in Comparative Studies; (2) Social Change and Library Development; (3) Library Development in Latin America, a Scalogram; (4) Cross-Cultural Aspects of Assistance to Developing Countries; (5) Patterns of Librarianship in West Africa, and (6) Librarianship in France and the United States: A Comparative Study with Some Implications for Emerging Nations. A list of the participants is included, as are the introductory remarks by William L. Williamson. (SJ)
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- 1971
5. An Approach to Comparative Adult Education. Papers by Members of a Graduate Seminar.
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Hull Univ. (England). Dept. of Adult Education.
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These papers, produced for a graduate seminar at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, represent an attempt to devise a methodology for the comparative study of adult education. "Introduction," by G.S. Bains, provides a justification for the study of comparative adult education. "Comparative Philosophies of Adult Education," by Donald Verwayen, and "An Exploration of the 'Developmental/Rationalistic' Dichotomy for Comparative Adult Education Studies," by Michael J. Heus, examine basic philosophies. "The National Establishment of Adult Education," by Barbara D'Onofrio, concerns the status of adult education. "The Organization of Adult Education," by A. Brian Calhoun, "A Comparative Adult Education Inventory," by Marianne Maynard, and "The Arrangement of Study Activities," by Thomas C. Smrcka, present different forms of arrangement. "Cultural Differences and Evaluation," by D. Merrill Ewert, explores cultural influences creating differences between countries. (KM)
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- 1972
6. Research on Migration in Africa: Past, Present, and Future, African Rural Employment Paper No. 2.
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Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Dept. of Agricultural Economics. and Byerlee, Derek
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African nations have been experiencing rapid rates of urbanization accompanied by serious problems of urban unemployment due to the rate of rural-urban migration and the lack of an adequate understanding of the migration process for economic policy formulation. The aim of this paper was to review the present knowledge of African rural-urban migration, suggesting future directions for improved methodology and theory for economic research on migration. Focus was on: (1) Migrants (identity) and the Migrant Process; (2) Determinants of Rural-Urban Migration (noneconomic factors and income differentials); (3) Implications of Migration for Economic Development (distortions in factor markets, migration as capital transfer, and externalities associated with migration). The literature revealed that younger, better educated people have dominated rural-urban migration in Africa; economic motives have been important in determining the rate of rural-urban migration (little agreement as to the relevant economic variables in the decision to migrate); divergence between the private and social returns of migration (almost no research establishing the divergence magnitude). Future migration theory should include the human capital approach; methodology should utilize sample survey techniques, rather than unreliable census data, and migration research should be linked with policy concerning education, population distribution, industrial decentralization, and rural-urban labor markets. (JC)
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- 1972
7. ACTIVITIES OF THE DIVISION OF SCIENCE TEACHING OF UNESCO. PAPER PRESENTED AT THE AAAS MEETING, DECEMBER 26, 1967, NEW YORK.
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BAEZ, ALBERT V.
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A PAPER PRESENTED TO THE SECTION ON EDUCATION (Q) OF THE 1967 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SCIENCE ANNUAL CONVENTION, THIS DOCUMENT DISCUSSES THE ACTIVITIES OF THE DIVISION OF SCIENCE TEACHING (DST) OF UNESCO. INCLUDED ARE DISCUSSIONS OF (1) THE OVERALL PROGRAM BUDGET, (2) AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF DST AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE EDUCATION SECTOR OF UNESCO, AND (3) A DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT OVERALL PROGRAM AND PROJECTIONS FOR THE FUTURE. THE PRESENT PROGRAM IS DESCRIBED UNDER ITS FOUR MAIN PARTS (1) COLLECTION AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION, (2) PILOT PROJECTS ON NEW APPROACHES AND MATERIALS FOR THE TEACHING OF BASIC SCIENCES, (3) OTHER ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE THE TEACHING OF THE BASIC SCIENCES AT UNIVERSITY AND POST-GRADUATE LEVELS, AND (4) STIMULATION OF INTEREST IN SCIENCE. SPECIFIC PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS BEING CARRIED OUT UNDER EACH OF THE FOUR MAIN PARTS ARE DISCUSSED AND THE PRIMARY GEOGRAPHIC AREAS AFFECTED ARE INDICATED. A BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE PROVISION OF MORE DETAILED INFORMATION IS INCLUDED. (DS)
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- 1967
8. Research on Employment in the Rural Nonfarm Sector in Africa. African Rural Employment Paper No. 5.
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Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Dept. of Agricultural Economics. and Liedholm, Carl
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Within the context of the role of rural employment in overall economic development, the objectives were to summarize existing knowledge of the rural African nonfarm sector and to develop an analytical framework for examing utilization of labor in this sector, using a descriptive profile, a theoretical model, and a research approach to rural nonfarm employment in Sierra Leone. Empirical evidence assembled for the profile revealed that the rural nonfarm sector was an important source of income and employment in Africa. The most important occupational groups in this sector were "sales workers" and "craftsmen and production process workers" (70 percent). Modifications of the Hymer-Resnick model included relaxing the assumption that output of the rural nonfarm sector cannot be traded to urban areas and abroad, and considering the effects of the backward and forward linkages of agriculture on growth of this sector. Providing the framework for proposed research in Sierra Leone and other African countries, the modified model included the following components: an estimate of total population of rural and nonfarm establishments; a description of these establishments (type of activity and workshop, number of workers and machines, quantity of output and input, and capital assets); characteristics of the entrepeneur; and farm household activities, income, and expenditures. (JC)
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- 1973
9. Rural Employment, Migration, and Economic Development: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidence from Africa. Africa Rural Employment Paper No. 1.
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Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Dept. of Agricultural Economics., Byerlee, Derek, and Eicher, Carl K.
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Employment problems in Africa were examined with special emphasis on rural employment and migration within the context of overall economic development. A framework was provided for analyzing rural employment in development; that framework was used to analyze empirical information from Africa; and theoretical issues were raised in analyzing rural employment and migration in economic development. The framework consisted of a micro-economic analysis of the rural labor market; an analysis of rural urban migration; and an aggregate analysis of rural employment as influenced by interaction in the product and factor markets of four sectors--urban, large and small scale; rural nonfarm; and agriculture. Results showed deficiencies in micro-level information (role of the nonfarm sector and farm mechanization); migration information (rural-urban income differentials, capital transfer measurements, and migration elasticity); and established macro-models (they lacked adequate employment focus, were partial equilibrium analyses of more complex problems, and reflected institutional assumptions not widely applicable in the African context). Recommendations emphasized development of better theory and collection of more solid micro-level data, specifically further research on rural employment, off farm employment, and migration. (JC)
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- 1972
10. Methodological Notes on Quantification, Productivity, and Groups in Administrative Research. Discussion Paper No. 110.
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Nairobi Univ. (Kenya). Inst. for Development Studies., Leonard, David K., Prewitt, Kenneth, Leonard, David K., Prewitt, Kenneth, and Nairobi Univ. (Kenya). Inst. for Development Studies.
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This essay presents some of the possibilities for doing systematic quantitative research in the field of African public administration and reviews some of the methodological problems involved. The authors argue that quantitative research is especially desirable because of the gains to be achieved in precision, reliability, comparability, and new insight. A study of productivity in public administration is suggested as a useful starting point. Such a study would meet the demand for usefulness made by civil servant administrators and, at the same time, would expand the boundaries of knowledge and theoretical power. The possibilities of productivity research are illustrated by considering two hypothetical African agricultural marketing boards. (Author/DN)
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- 1971
11. The Reliability of General Certificate of Education Examination English Composition Papers in West Africa
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Akeju, S. A.
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Study was an attempt to evaluate the West African Examinations Council efforts in terms of the extent to which its marking procedures have ensured high reader reliability for the English Language Essay examination, a test which was designed to measure writing ability. (Author)
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- 1972
12. Discussion of the paper by Willard H. Wright: "schistosomiasis as a world problem".
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McMullen DB
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- Adult, Africa, Asia, Asia, Southeastern, Child, Child, Preschool, Egypt, Humans, World Health Organization, Zimbabwe, Schistosomiasis epidemiology
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- 1968
13. African Perspectives: Papers in the History, Politics, and Economics of Africa, Presented to Thomas Hodgkin (Book).
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Grant, Marcia A.
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- AFRICA, AFRICAN Perspectives (Book), ALLEN, Christopher, JOHNSON, R.
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Reviews the book `African Perspectives: Papers in the History, Politics, and Economics of Africa, Presented to Thomas Hodgkin,' edited by Christopher Allen and R.W. Johnson.
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- 1974
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14. [Myelomatous paraproteinemia of the IgA or IgG type and blood lipids].
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Clerc M, Triquet A, and Martine J
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- Adult, Africa, Aged, Electrophoresis, Paper, Humans, Immunodiffusion, Immunoelectrophoresis, Male, Middle Aged, Multiple Myeloma blood, Cholesterol blood, Immunoglobulin A analysis, Immunoglobulin G analysis, Lipids blood, Multiple Myeloma immunology, Myeloma Proteins analysis
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- 1974
15. A pedigree demonstrating the transmission of a Gm2,8,21 phenogroup.
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Steinberg AG, Muir A, Rivat L, and Ropartz C
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- Africa, Chromatography, Paper, Electrophoresis, Epitopes, Fibrinolysin, Humans, Immunoglobulin G isolation & purification, Indicators and Reagents, Pedigree, Peptides blood, Staining and Labeling, Succinates blood, Trypsin blood, White People, Isoantigens analysis, Peptides analysis, Phenotype, Polymorphism, Genetic
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- 1970
16. [Chemotaxonomic research on vascular plants. One the presence of 6-methylchrysin in the fern Lonchitis tisserantii Alston and Tardieu].
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Voirin B and Lebreton P
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- Africa, Chromatography, Paper, Chromatography, Thin Layer, Glycosides analysis, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Infrared Rays, Plants classification, Silicon Dioxide, Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet Rays, Flavonoids analysis, Plants analysis
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- 1967
17. SOME THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION IN THE STUDY OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD.
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Jayaraman, Raja
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SOCIAL change ,SOCIAL development ,SOCIAL goals ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
Copyright of Sociologia Ruralis is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 1973
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18. INTERNATIONAL NEWS IN THE ARABIC PRESS: A COMPARATIVE CONTENT ANALYSIS.
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Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim
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PRESS ,JOURNALISM ,MASS media ,NEWSPAPERS - Abstract
This article focuses on the comparative content analysis of the Arabic press. The purpose of this analysis was to determine the extent to which the reading publics in various Arab countries are being exposed to news of international events. Secondly, the kind of information the press is transmitting and the relative attention it is paying to events involving different countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. Lastly, the favorable or unfavorable images of these other countries that this information is likely to convey to the readers. The content analysis was carried out in two phases. The first concerned the content of the entire newspaper. In this phase, printed space was measured and multiplied by the average number of pages per issue to obtain base totals for each prestige paper. The second phase of the analysis was confined to the first page only. Items appearing on this page were classified in greater detail. In the study it was found that, despite the small size of many Arabic newspapers, papers, internationally significant news, as opposed to news of local or regional reference, absorbs a surprisingly high percentage of total space. Objective changes in the world power situation and in the nature of Arab-Western interaction have not succeeded in suppressing the Arab's preoccupation with external affairs.
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- 1962
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19. Symposium on the City of Freetown.
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Crowder, Michael
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AFRICANA studies ,CITIES & towns ,SIERRA Leonean social conditions ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,HISTORY ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
The Institute of African Studies at Fourah Bay College organised a symposium on the city of Freetown which brought together scholars from a wide range of disciplines to discuss the history and present social and economic structure of Freetown, under the joint directorship of Professor Eldred Jones, head of the Department of English at Fourah Bay College, and Christopher Fyfe, Reader in African History at Edinburgh University. A similar project on Ibadan was undertaken at the Institute of African Studies at the University there in 1963 and the collected papers are soon to be published by Cambridge University Press under the editorship of Peter Lloyd, Akin Mabogunje, and Bolanle Awe. More recently the University of Dakar held a series of discussions about Dakar and the resulting papers are to be published by Présence Africaine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 1966
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20. Colonialism's Last Stronghold.
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Logan, Rayford W.
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COLONIAL Africa ,ETHNOLOGY ,COMMUNISM ,COLLECTIVISM (Political science) - Abstract
This article sheds light on the situation of colonialism in Africa. And yet some 150,000,000 black Africans live under conditions which make them ripe for communism. They are politically oppressed and economically exploited, segregated and kept largely illiterate. The leaders are becoming increasingly impatient with the gradualist policies of the colonial nations. France is trying a novel experiment in the administration of its overseas black territories. On paper, at least, the natives of these territories have become full-fledged citizens of the Republic and are directly represented in the National Assembly.
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- 1950
21. SCIENCE EDUCATION IN AFRICA.
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Burkhardt, G.
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TECHNICAL reports ,VISITING professors ,MOBILE schools ,SCIENCE ,EDUCATION ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges - Abstract
The article presents the author's accounts on the development of science education in Ghana, Africa, as based from a working paper prepared for the Fourteenth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. These accounts are being derived from the author's observations during the six months he spent in 1963-64 as a visiting professor of physics at the University of Ghana. The author said that his length of stay in Ghana was long enough to gain an impressive view of people's great efforts to overcome their difficulties, of their optimistic belief in progress through education, and finally of their openmindedness and warm hospitality.
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- 1966
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22. ATTITUDE CONTENT AND AGREEMENT SET IN AUTONOMY-AUTHORITARIANISM ITEMS FOR UNITED STATES, AFRICAN, AND PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.
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A. Paul Hare and Peabody, Dean
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AUTHORITARIANISM ,AUTHORITY ,COLLEGE students ,POLITICAL systems - Abstract
The article reports on attitude content and agreement set in autonomy-authoritarianism items for the United States, African, and Philippine university students. For the past 10 years, the relationship between attitude content and agreement set in a variety of scales has been discussed in the social-psychological literature. The problem is that when a person is asked to agree or disagree with a statement from a scale, he may or may not have a relevant attitude, so his response may indicate either attitude content or a response tendency to agree or disagree. One method for dealing with this problem is to use balanced scales where half the items are scored in each direction. Thus, in developing a 36-item Autonomy-Authoritarianism scale for cross-cultural comparison, an equal number of autonomy and authoritarian items were included. The present paper will consider the implications of these findings for the problem of attitude content and agreement set. These results have the advantage of extending the problem to several non-European groups and to a new set of items.
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- 1971
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23. A Pre-Election Survey in a Semi-Literate Society.
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Birmingham, W B. and Jahoda, G.
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ELECTIONS ,PUBLIC opinion ,PUBLIC opinion polls ,SOCIAL surveys ,DEVELOPING countries - Abstract
The article presents a pre-election survey in a semi-literate society. Public opinion survey techniques have become very useful instruments for the administrator of the now rapidly developing under-developed areas. In this article, the authors describe some of the special problems involved in a pre-election survey done in Africa. They conclude that, though the difficulties are different from those facing researchers in Western society, the techniques developed in literate countries can be applied in radically different environments. Public opinion surveys among the indigenous populations of African territories present problems, which are intriguing but as yet very little explored. Self-governing institutions are being established in some of these territories more rapidly than are educational institutions and the ballot-paper is already in the grasp of many a hand that has never held a pen. This inquiry was on too small a scale to bear the weight of much generalization but it does suggest that the difficulties of making public opinion surveys among predominantly illiterate African populations are not insuperable.
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- 1955
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24. Summary Statistics on Indenture and Associated Migration affecting the West Indies, 1834 1918.
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Roberts, G. W. and Byrne, J.
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EMIGRATION & immigration ,ETHNIC groups ,ETHNOLOGY ,COLONIES - Abstract
This paper presents summary statistics of immigration into the West Indies, under indenture or government sponsorship, during the period 1834-1918. The sources reveal a few discrepancies, but are sufficiently consistent to permit the construction of a series for each of the ethnic groups introduced. Most of the problems involved in constructing these series centre around the fact that a variety of sources have to be utilised. Immigration figures of East Indians, Portuguese, Chinese, Europeans and others into the several West Indian colonies have been prepared for each calendar year or season, but to conserve space are presented here in summary form. In the case of African immigration it is possible to give their country of origin. The only group of immigrants who were involved in return movements of any consequence are the East Indians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1966
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25. REGIONAL PLANNING PROBLEMS IN ASHANTI.
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Sutherland, Alasdair C.
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REGIONAL planning ,HUMAN settlements ,REAL estate development ,LAND use planning ,INDUSTRIAL location ,FACILITY management ,LAND subdivision ,COMMUNITY development - Abstract
The article discusses the regional planning problems in Ashanti, Africa. Accordingly, the paper examines the problems of Ashanti, an area of the Gold Coast lying almost entirely within the tropical forest, which will describe some of the barriers to rapid progress. The paper also cited some of the difficulties to be faced by anyone bringing technical skill and experience to the assistance of a population which is fast becoming conscious of new needs. Moreover, two stages in working with these problems are also being discussed.
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- 1955
26. Seminar on the Administrative Problems of Development at Regional and Local Levels.
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Mwanza, A. George
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SEMINARS ,AFRICAN politics & government ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,ECONOMIC development ,LOCAL government -- Congresses ,PUBLIC administration - Abstract
The Centre africain de formation et de recherche administratives pourle développement (C.A.F.R.A.D.) is an Institute for African Training and Research in Administration for Development, which held its first seminar in February 1966, on the problems of co-ordination of government departments in economic affairs. This led to an examination of the problems posed by the breaking down of administration outside the capital into smaller units, which was the main theme of the November seminar. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 1966
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27. THE CASE AGAINST INDEPENDENCE.
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Richards, William
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COLONIAL Africa ,IMPERIALISM ,AFRICANS ,POLITICAL autonomy ,PROTECTORATES - Abstract
This article discusses the new plan of British Colonial Office for changing the political make-up of another sizable part of the British colonies. Following the pattern which has changed colonies into dominions, the new White Paper will outline plans for uniting three of the large, land-locked British "protectorates" in South-Central Africa into a larger federated union which will be expected eventually to assume an autonomous role. The African natives, however, see the plan mainly as a method by which the White settlers in this part of Africa could freeze White supremacy into the culture of all three territories. The natives prefer their territories to remain wards of Great Britain's Colonial Office in their present status as British protectorates.
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- 1952
28. Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of the U.K.
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Foster, Philip J.
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AFRICANA studies ,EDUCATION ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,EDUCATION policy ,SELF-reliance - Abstract
Perhaps a major decision that must be made by the organisers of professional conferences is whether to structure them in terms of a particular theme or alternatively to allow for a wide diversity of presentation and topics. If the former course is followed there is some danger that specificity of focus will be achieved at the expense of over-all attendance, but this did not appear to be the case at the recent meeting of the A.S.A., attended by over ioo members. Fortunately, the subject of the conference, ‘Education in Africa: current experiment and research’, was itself diffuse enough to enable contributions to be forthcoming from a wide variety of disciplines and from scholars whose research preoccupations were extremely diverse. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 1968
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29. University of East Africa Social Science Conference.
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Lonsdale, John
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SOCIAL science conferences ,SOCIAL scientists ,MULTIDISCIPLINARY practices ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,POLICY scientists - Abstract
This year it was the turn of Dar es Salaam to act as host to the social scientists, now numbering nearly 200, from the three constituent colleges of the University of East Africa, together with visitors from the Universities of Malawi and Zambia, from Tanzanian government ministries, and places as widely separated as Kinshasa and Leeds. As at last year's conference (reported by Martin Lowenkopf in The Journal of Modern African Studies, IV, 4, 1966), the discussions were trans-disciplinary, even if the tight timetable of parallel disciplinary panels prevented delegates from taking full advantage of this. This reporter was unable to range far beyond the history meeting-room. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 1968
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30. University of East Africa Social Science Conference.
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Lowenkopf, Martin
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SOCIAL science conferences ,POLITICAL science conventions ,SOCIAL sciences ,INTERDISCIPLINARY research ,CONFERENCES & conventions ,SOCIAL history ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
This conference brought together over 70 social scientists from the Kenyan, Tanzanian, and Ugandan constituent Colleges of the University of East Africa (with visitors from Zambia, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, and Rhodesia) for their annual inter-disciplinary, or rather trans-disciplinary, deliberations. Why ‘trans-disciplinary’? Because the historians discussed nationalism, politics, and church movements; political scientists discoursed on economics, rural settlement, agriculture, and education; sociologists criticised political decisions and economic criteria which hampered their investigations into resettlement programmes; and the economists, while speaking mostly about economics, were represented at virtually all panels, apparently to guard their disciplinary preserve against intrusions, presumptions and, in one case, elision with political science. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 1966
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31. People and Land in Africa South of the Sahara: Readings in Social Geography.
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HANDWERKER, W. PENN
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HUMAN geography ,READING - Published
- 1973
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32. The Dark Continent and Missions.
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DWELLINGS ,ISLANDS - Abstract
The article discusses about the book "The Lure of Africa," by Cornelius H. Patton. The comic-paper idea of a missionary in a black coat, white choker, and top hat landing solitary on the Cannibal Islands with his Bible under his arm is not more than a century behind the times. The old haphazard methods of private adventure have long ago been discarded. Modern missions are organized like great businesses, or military campaigns. Towards the African he is thoroughly sympathetic, having traveled in South Africa and seen him for himself. One injustice which caught his attention was the hut tax; but it would appear that he has failed to grasp the problem in its entirety.
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- 1917
33. A Whig Interpretation of African Nationalism.
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Mohan, Jitendra
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NATIONALISM - Abstract
A recent trio of books by Professor Ali Mazrui deals largely with the phenomenon and impact of Africa's emergence into independence. The Anglo-African Commonwealth (Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1967) argues the fertilising influence of English and English liberal ideas on the growth of African nationalism, and explores the changing character and role of the Commonwealth due to its progressive ‘Africanisation’ over the past decade. On Heroes and Uhuru-Worship (London, Longmans, 1967) is a collection of papers on ‘the politics of African independence’. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 1968
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34. METHODOLOGY IN THE STUDY OF ATTITUDES OF AFRICANS.
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Biesheuvel, S.
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AFRICANS ,ETHNOLOGY ,METHODOLOGY ,CULTURE ,ATTITUDE (Psychology) ,RESEARCH - Abstract
A review has been presented of methods whereby attitudes can be studied in African communities in various stages of transition from tribal to `Western culture. The techniques of the directed interview, group discussion, TAT, incomplete sentences, and attitudes inventory were discussed. In the measurement of African attitudes the problems of rapport and of validity require particular attention. In addition to the usual validity problem whether verbalised attitudes are consistent with actual behaviour, there is the difficulty, in the case of African informants, of ensuring that the verbalised attitudes reflect their actual beliefs, ideas, and feelings. This is as much a matter of the correct choice of method and its skillful manipulation as of the establishment of proper rapport. Important ingredients of successful rapport are the careful timing of investigations with reference to events of cultural or local political significance; the use of the vernacular; the avoidance of pencil and paper except in the case of well-educated groups; the correct contacts and the employment of carefully selected and trained field-workers, preferably graduates in the social sciences. Validity can be determined in a number of ways, depending on the nature of the investigation and the method employed. Checks on facts implicit in the formation of an attitude; group differences in attitudes related to the particular role and status in society of the members of each group; changes in attitudes consistently related to social circumstances, have all been found useful as validity indicators. In work situations, job attitudes can also be related to assessments of work performance by supervisors, though conflicting role expectations in multi-racial societies may render merit rating criteria suspect. The problem of structuring TAT pictures in such a manner that attitudes relating to specific areas of interest will be evoked was discussed in some detail. Research into the development and functioning of perceptual habits in African cultures is necessary, both as a basis for designing TAT series, and for the interpretation of responses. Details were given of a promising inventory, designed to measure attitudes towards Western customs, ethical and legal concepts, and administration of justice. The inventory presents conversations between Africans who discuss the correct mode of conduct in a variety of situations. Each topic is discussed by five speakers whose reasons for acting or not acting in a particular manner are ranked by the subjects. Statistical treatment yields the relative strength of eight different attitudes in individuals and communities. It was shown that the reliability of the scale is high, .92 for the rank order in which the attitudes were placed, and from .85 to .51 for the internal consistency of six of the eight attitudes. Validity data were also presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1958
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35. ECOLOGY OF A MIOMBO SITE, LUPA NORTH FOREST RESERVE, TANZANIA.
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BOALER, S. B. and SCIWALE, K. C.
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MIOMBO ,FORESTS & forestry ,FOREST policy ,NATURE reserves ,NATIONAL parks & reserves ,POPULATION biology ,SHIFTING cultivation ,PUBLIC lands - Abstract
The article discusses the third paper in a series that provide results of studies that describes the site and vegetation which are in many respects typical of miombo woodland in Western Tanzania. It is the author's view that the Forest Reserve has probably not been cultivated for the past 50 years as throughout the miombo, cultivation has certainly occurred at times in the more distant past. It is suggested that the shifting cultivation is identified as the mostly used agricultural system in miombo areas of Tanzania if enough land is available.
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- 1966
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36. OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL OF THE PRESS IN AFRICA.
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OMAZO EDEANI, DAVID
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PRESS ,MASS media ,FREEDOM of expression ,POLITICAL party press ,FOREIGN ownership of real property ,PUBLIC interest ,PRESS law ,PROPERTY rights - Abstract
The article focuses on the control and ownership of press in Africa. It says that the problem of Africa when it comes to the press is on how to consolidate the interests in mass communications to build a viable system and how to resolve the danger of total constriction of freedom of expression. It states that the ownership of the African press can be classified into religious press, party press, commercial press, and government press. It adds that it is viewed that the foreign-owned press under the control of foreigners is not dedicated to serve the interest Africa.
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- 1970
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37. Ethnic segregation in urban Israel.
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Klaff, Vivian Z. and Klaff, V Z
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CULTURAL pluralism ,SOCIAL distance ,SOCIAL participation ,ETHNIC groups ,GROUP identity ,SOCIAL classes ,COMPARATIVE studies ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,RESEARCH methodology ,MEDICAL cooperation ,RESEARCH ,SOCIAL skills ,STATISTICS ,CITY dwellers ,RESIDENTIAL patterns ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,EVALUATION research - Abstract
Using an ecological perspective, one aspect of the relationship of social distance and physical distance is analyzed in the three largest cities in Israel. The principal aim of the paper is to examine ethnic (country of origin) residential segregation as an indicator of social patterning within the society. Despite the different demographic, topographical and functional characteristics of the three cities, fairly similar patterns of ethnic segregation are found using the technique of Smallest Space Analysis (SSA-I) to analyze index of dissimilarity matrices. Patterns of ethnic segregation are then related to the SES of sub-quarters to determine the nature of the internal structure of the cities. It is suggested that ethnicity is an important variable in the process of social stratification in urban Israel, at least insofar as ecological relationships are concerned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1973
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38. SCHWEIZERISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR VOLKSWIRTSCHAFT UND STATISTIK: MARCH 1963.
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ECONOMICS ,LABOR productivity ,MONETARY policy - Abstract
Presents several abstracts related to economics, published in the March 1963 issue of the journal 'Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Volkswirtschaft und Statistik.' Scope of monetary policy in an African country; Concept of industry and the theory of consumer demand; Estimation of the annual increase in the total labor productivity in Swiss economy.
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- 1963
39. POPULATION PROBLEMS AND FAMILY PLANNING IN AFRICA.
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Uche, Chukwudum
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BIRTH control ,POPULATION ,BLACK Africans ,BIRTH rate ,AFRICAN politics & government ,GOVERNMENT programs - Abstract
In mid-1972 the continent of Africa had a population of 364 million or 9.6 percent of the world population of 3,782 million. The annual crude birth and death rates which were 47 and 21 per 1000 respectively produced a growth rate of 2.6 percent per annum, a rate second only to that of Latin America. The African population will double in 27 years. The population is very young with 44 percent under 15 years of age while only 3 percent is 65 and over. This paper will deal with two issues: What are the population problems in Africa and what are the African peoples and governments doing about them? Whether Africa has a population problem is a topic that will continue to be debated for the rest of this century. It is an issue on which reasonable and intelligent people disagree. The author's position is to say categorically that a problem does exist and then go on from there. This article also attempts to review the knowledge of family planning in Black Africa. The necessity for massive action on the part of governments has been emphasized. The readiness of the population is not in doubt. The political risks the elite: political, military and intellectual, runs should be completely spelled out in any communication addressed to them.
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- 1972
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40. DÉVELOPPEMENT SOCIO-ÉCONOMIQUE ET LES RELATIONS HOMMES-TERRE.
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Biffot, Laurent
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COMMUNITY development ,TRAUMATISM ,ROADS ,UPPER class ,CITIES & towns - Abstract
Copyright of Sociologia Ruralis is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 1968
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41. CHANGEMENTS DEMOGRAPHIQUES ET CHANGEMENTS SOCIAUX.
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Poirier, J. and Nemo, J.
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POPULATION ,INFANT mortality ,DEMOGRAPHY ,SOCIAL psychology ,FERTILITY ,BIRTH control - Abstract
Copyright of Sociologia Ruralis is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)
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- 1964
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42. After Imperialism.
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Sumberg, Theodore A.
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NATIONALISM ,CIVIL war ,RELIGION ,WAR ,POLITICAL doctrines - Abstract
The article reports on nationalism in United States. There are scores of new States in Asia and Africa that are trying to set up free societies. It is a "new birth of freedom" on a grand scale. It is in fact freedom's greatest test, for it involves the older free regimes of Europe and the United States. If truth counts over charity, then one must point out that the new States will fail, if not all, then all but a few. Some are already succumbing to the initial perils of liberty that the last paper of the Federalist warned Americans against: "anarchy, civil war, a perpetual alienation of the States from each other, and perhaps the military despotism of a victorious demagogue." The real wonder is in believing that national unity could ever arise in freedom among the many units that nowadays arrogate to themselves the name of nation. They are nations only to the map maker. Many are areas marked off only for colonial administrative convenience; some have dozens, even hundreds, of languages, several antagonistic religions; a still uncounted welter of tribes living in mutual ignorance or traditional war; and above all there stands the great gulf between the village primitive and the urban modern.
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- 1963
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43. Anti-militarism and political militancy in Tanzania.
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Mazrui, All A.
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TANZANIAN politics & government ,MILITARY policy ,MILITARY sociology ,CIVIL rights movements ,PAN-Africanism - Abstract
Two dialectical tendencies in military affairs have characterized the ethos of Tanzania under Julius Nyerere. One is a marked distrust of men professionally under arms at home and in inter-African relations. The other is a faith in military or quasi-military solutions to some of the remaining colonial problems, in Africa. In this paper,author hopes first to demonstrate that there has been a tradition of anti-militarism in Tanganyika, going back well into the days before the union with Zanzibar. Involved in this is the story of East African integration at large. This article then examines the growth of militancy in African liberation movements and how this affected the nature of Tanganyika's involvement in such movements. Tanganyika attained internal self -government in the same year in. which the Congo attained her independence. Tanganyika also shared a border with the Congo! This double-nearness to the Congo's experience caused speculation about Tanganyika's future as she approached independence.
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- 1968
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44. THE CHRISTIAN MISSION IN AFRICA: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HELD AT LE ZONTE, BELGIUM, SEPTEMBER 14-20, 1926.
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Davis, Jackson
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CONFERENCES & conventions ,MEETINGS ,CONFERENCE proceedings (Publications) ,MISSIONARIES ,CIVILIZATION ,ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. - Abstract
The article highlights the International Conference of the International Missionary Council held in LeZoute, Belgium from September 14 to 20, 1926. The conference marks a decided advance over anything yet attempted in coordinating and strengthening the forces working for a Christian civilization in Africa. Previous to the conference, a special African number of the International Review of Missions was brought out with a remarkable collection of able papers from different viewpoints, Natives, South African whites, missionaries, scholars, and government officials. This number is itself a contribution to Africa with its informing discussions of the many phases of the task confronting Christian civilization in Africa. The conference was composed of over two hundred persons representing first of all, the missionaries themselves, engaged in the various parts of Africa, second, missionary societies and boards responsible for the missionary policy, and third, representatives of various governments. The meetings were presided over by Dr. Donald Fraser, and the program was carefully planned by J. H. Oldham, Secretary of the International Missionary Council. To their wise planning and balanced judgment was due in no small measure the fact that so many persons, with a great variety of opinions, could sit together for a week and spend their time in profitable discussion of the things of common interest to all, and in general, to avoid needless controversial issues.
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- 1927
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45. ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT IN BRITISH WEST AFRICA.
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Goodwin, Craufurd D.
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TECHNOLOGY transfer ,BRITISH colonies ,TECHNOLOGY & economics ,ECONOMIC history ,COLONIAL Africa - Abstract
Economic growth was a subject of interest and concern to West African intellectuals in the nineteenth century, as it is to their successors today. Yet these pioneer thinkers had no theory or analytical tools designed specifically to explain the economic conditions facing them. To fill the void, Africans in the British colonies imported, modified, and even improved on portions of the social science apparatus used by the rest of the nineteenth-century English-speaking world. This paper describes certain highlights of the process whereby economic ideas, which constituted an important segment of Western technology, were transferred to British West Africa and were assimilated in the course of social modernization. The importation of economic doctrine was both influenced by and a determinant of growth. In the extent to which West Africans of a century ago found it necessary to reject as inappropriate or modify drastically economic doctrine received from abroad, this account suggests useful comparisons for the present day. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1967
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46. AFRICAN RANCHES LTD., 1914-1931: AN ILL-FATED STOCKRAISING ENTERPRISE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA.
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Dunbar, Gary S.
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RANCHES ,STOCKS (Finance) ,GOVERNMENT information ,PUBLIC administration - Abstract
African Ranches Ltd., a subsidiary of a Liverpool firm which later became part of the United Africa Company, was the only private cattle ranching enterprise ever established in Northern Nigeria. The company operated a 16,000-acre ranch in western Bornu province from 1914 until 1923, when it was given up to the government. Although ranching was officially discouraged, for a time it looked as though it might succeed. The vicissitudes of this early ranching scheme are chronicled in this paper, with data coming principally from the National Archives in Kaduna and Ibadan, Nigeria. and the Public Record Office, London. Although this is an historical study of a unique enterprise, it offers instructive comparison with recent state-owned ranches in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 1970
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47. THE FORMATION OF LACTIC ACID IN DENTAL PLAQUES II. ORAL CONDITIONS OF PRIMITIVE BUSHMEN OF THE WESTERN KALAHARI DESERT.
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CLEMENT, A. J., PLOTKIN, R., and FOSDICK, L. S.
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SAN (African people) ,DENTAL caries research ,NOMADS ,NUTRITION & oral health - Abstract
The article presents a study which examines the oral conditions of nomadic African Bushmen. A previous study which discovered an almost complete lack of tooth decay among a population of Bushmen of the Kukong Pan is mentioned, noting the importance of the study presented in the paper, which seeks to determine the reasons for the Bushmen's lack of dental caries. The Bushmen's diet and nutrition are also described.
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- 1956
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48. Federation in Africa.
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IMPERIALISM - Abstract
The article focuses on the elimination of imperialism in Africa.
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- 1953
49. The New World They See.
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Pollock, Francis
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ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc. ,UNITED States armed forces ,INTERNATIONAL relations - Abstract
Peace Corps Volunteers (PCV) have been spilling back into the U.S. for four years now, but as yet their group forays into politics have been sporadic at best, and more than a little unwelcome to many of the volunteers. Indeed, one of the major concerns of a 1965 conference of returned corpsmen, titled "Citizen in a Time of Change," was a parcel of several proposals for a national association. Vietnam is certainly the catalyst, but it is not Vietnam alone. The mounting racial tensions in southern Africa, the agonizing deterioration of the Alliance for Progress, the growing U.S. military presence in Thailand, these and other occurrences are provoking serious thought among ex-PCVs.
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- 1967
50. Seminar on African Boundary Problems.
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Touval, Saadia
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SEMINARS ,GEOGRAPHIC boundaries ,CONFERENCES & conventions - Abstract
This year's annual seminar of the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, organised by Professor Carl Gösta Widstrand, the director of the Institute, was devoted to boundary problems. It was an interisciplinary gathering, attended by some 30 scholars, from 12 countries. The daily proceedings were divided into two: in the mornings, the papers were delivered as public lectures at the University, and in the afternoons, the seminar met for discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 1968
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