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Legal and human rights dilemma relating to sexuality education in Africa
(Inderscience, 2016)
This article examines the benefits of sexuality education in schools in Africa and then considers the legal and human rights issues relating to the objection to its introduction. In doing this, the article discusses some ...
The New Alliance on food security and nutrition: What are the implications for Africa’s youth?
(Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The ‘New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition’ (hereafter the ‘New Alliance’) is a partnership which was established between selected African countries, G8 members, and the private sector to ‘work together to accelerate ...
Women in detention in Africa: A review of the literature
(Routledge, 2016)
Women in prison in Africa experience compounded discrimination due to gender and poverty. Structural inequality results in women being poorly educated, having reduced access to economic resources and legal processes. Women ...
Breaking the mold of disciplinary area studies
(Indiana University Press, 2016)
At the outset of an edited volume on Intellectuals and African Development, the question is posed about what went wrong.1 The call for self-reflection perhaps anticipates a further question—about how to account for the ...
The new alliance on food security and nutrition: what are the implications for Africa’s youth?
(Future Agricultures Consortium, 2016)
Young people are a growing proportion of Africa’s population and most live in poverty in rural areas. Despite urbanisation, in absolute numbers the rural youth are growing and agricultural development needs to prioritise ...
Africa after apartheid: South Africa, race, and nation in Tanzania
(Routledge, 2016)
South African economic and political expansion into the African continent has been a controversial
feature of the post-apartheid era. Now human geographer Richard Schroeder has taken up the matter
in an ethnographic study ...
Strengthening post-graduate educational capacity for health policy and systems research and analysis: the strategy of the Consortium for Health Policy and Systems Analysis in Africa
(BioMed Central, 2016)
BACKGROUND: The last 5–10 years have seen significant international momentum build around the field of health
policy and systems research and analysis (HPSR + A). Strengthening post-graduate teaching is seen as central ...
Prioritization of anti-malarial hits from nature: Chemo-informatic profiling of natural products with in vitro antiplasmodial activities and currently registered anti-malarial drugs
(BMC, 2016)
A large number of natural products have shown in vitro antiplasmodial activities. Early identification
and prioritization of these natural products with potential for novel mechanism of action, desirable pharmacokinetics ...
‘… Oi, oi! … you must go by the right path’: Mofolo’s Chaka revisited via the original text
(University of Pretoria, 2016)
Thomas Mofolo never defended himself against accusations that his novel Chaka distorts historical facts to express anti-Nguni sentiments under the guise of Christianity. But in a way he foreshadowed the possibility of it, ...