Download or read book The Place of Work in African Childhoods written by Michael Bourdillon and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how work enters and affects the lives of children in Africa, taking for granted neither the traditional values surrounding childrens work, nor the international standards against it. Many African societies nurture their children on the ingrained notion that children must work as part of their process of growing up. Children participate in their families and communities through the work they do in the house and in whatever else their families do. Such views are, however, antithetical to the dominant views in Europe and North America which see childhood as a time of freedom from responsibility and economic activity. These views have become so popular with the elites in other countries to the extent that they now drive international campaigns against child labour, and have been incorporated into what are now considered universal international standards and conventions. This book was conceived within the framework of the CODESRIA tradition of taking African perspectives seriously and not allowing social research in Africa to become subservient to values from outside. African scholars remain keenly aware of the need not to isolate themselves from developments in the wider world, which could lead to stagnation. This book, through empirical observation of the lives of African children, the work they do, its place in their lives, and what the children say about it, proposes new perspectives towards a new understanding of this complex stage of human development. Work is not simply about the right to income: work provides identity and status in society, and participation in the community. People relate to one another through work. Those who do not work are often without status and are at the periphery of society. One of the major ways in which this book differs from most of the available literature is in the understanding it brings to the problem of child labour. There are economic reasons why children may need an income of their own. There is the demographic fact that the proportion of children to adults in low-income countries is nearly double that in high-income societies. This book attempts to demonstrate that work is both necessary and beneficial in terms of a childs development to become a full, responsible, and respectable member of society.

Download or read book The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland written by Kate Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of World War I saw the former German protectorate of Togoland split into British- and French-administered territories. By the 1950s a political movement led by the Ewe ethnic group called for the unification of British and French Togoland into an independent multiethnic state. Despite the efforts of the Ewe, the United Nations trust territory of British Togoland was ultimately merged with the Gold Coast to become Ghana, the first independent nation in sub-Saharan Africa; French Togoland later declared independence as the nation of Togo. Based on interviews with former political activists and their families, access to private papers, and a collection of oral and written propaganda, this book examines the history and politics behind the failed project of Togoland unification. Kate Skinner challenges the marginalization of the Togoland question from popular and academic analyses of postcolonial politics and explores present-day ramifications of the contingencies of decolonization.

Download or read book Education in East and Central Africa written by Charl Wolhuter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education in East and Central Africa is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. With chapters written by an international team of leading regional education experts, the book explores the education systems of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Sao Tome, Gabon, the Republic of Congo and Rwanda. The book critically examines the regional development of education provision in each country as well as recent reforms and global contexts. Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole and guides to available online datasets, this handbook is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels.

Download or read book The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland written by Katharine Alexandra Collier Skinner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fruits of Freedom in British Togoland examines the history and politics behind the failed project of Togoland reunification, in which the United Nations trust territory of British Togoland was to be separated from the Gold Coast to join with French Togoland in a new independent African state.

Download or read book Language and Politics in Africa written by John Obiero Ogone and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and Politics in Africa is a fine collection of both empirically and theoretically based articles from across the African continent and beyond, but all focusing on the twin issues of Language and Politics in post colonial African countries. The authors offer critical perspectives on contemporary theoretical, empirical and policy issues related to language and how such issues manifest themselves at the inevitable interface with politics in a number of African countries. Coming at a time when most African countries are still grappling with language policy and planning issues while others are increasingly having to contend with the political outcomes of linguistically and ethnically heterogeneous nation-states, the present volume is a must read for scholars and students who are interested on the twin issues of language and politics since it represents one of the first attempts at documenting how language and politics affect each other in a number of African countries. The volume is divided into two sections dealing with the politics of language and the language of politics in African countries.

Download or read book Locality Mobility and nation written by Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction : conceptualizing periurban colonialism in sub-Saharan Africa -- Mobility, locality, and Ewe identity in periurban Eweland -- Intervention and dissent : manufacturing the model periurban chief -- Crisis in an Ewe "capital" : the periurban zone descends on the city -- Vodou and resistance : politico-religious crises in the periurban landscape -- The German Togo-bund and the periurban manifestations of "nation"--Eweland to la Republique Togolaise : the Guide du Togo and the periurban circulation of knowledge

Download or read book L cole au Togo written by Marie-France Lange and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage aborde le processus de scolarisation en Afrique à partir de l'étude du système scolaire togolais. Le fait scolaire y est considéré comme un fait social et, en tant que tel, il apparaît comme révélateur du fonctionnement des sociétés. Pour aborder l'étude de ce champ complexe et imbriqué, la démarche historique a été privilégiée, permettant de dérouler progressivement le fil des données recueillies, dans une perspective dialectique qui autorise l'élaboration des concepts de processus de scolarisation et d'institution de l'école. Le Togo offre un panorama assez complet du paysage scolaire africain, en raison d'une histoire particulière et d'une situation géographique qui lui donnent à la fois les caractéristiques des pays côtiers, très scolarisés, et celles des pays du Sahel, faiblement scolarisés. Il présente aussi la spécificité d'une histoire pré-coloniale singulière et d'une histoire coloniale mouvementée, ces particularismes engendrant l'avance scolaire constatée. Les années qui suivent l'accession à l'indépendance enregistrent un développement rapide du système scolaire, qui permet au Togo de se situer parmi les pays les plus scolarisés d'Afrique francophone. Puis, au début des années 80, il se présente comme le pays le plus touché par le phénomène de déscolarisation, et, à ce titre, celui qui révèle de la façon la plus crue les difficultés des Etats africains face à cette crise scolaire, les transformations de la perception de l'image de l'école par les populations, et la diversification de leurs pratiques scolaires. De même, la reprise scolaire des années 90 indique que l'école est représentative de ces lieux où les contradictions sont exacerbées, où des changements les plus brutaux peuvent côtoyer des permanences les plus inébranlables.

Download or read book Education in West Africa written by Emefa Takyi-Amoako and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education in West Africa is a comprehensive critical reference guide to education in the region. Written by regional experts, the book explores the education systems of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo. It critically examines the development of education provision in each country, whilst exploring both local and global contexts. Including a comparative introduction to the issues facing education in the region as a whole, this handbook is an essential reference for researchers, scholars, international agencies and policy-makers at all levels.

Download or read book Realizing the Abidjan Principles on the Right to Education written by Frank Adamson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book analyses the process of the first adoption of guiding human rights principles for education, the Abidjan Principles. It explains the development of the Abidjan Principles, including their articulation of the right to education, the state obligation to provide quality public education, and the role of private actors in education.

Download or read book Schools and National Identities in French speaking Africa written by Linda Gardelle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools and National Identities in French-speaking Africa showcases cutting-edge research to provide a renewed understanding of the role of schools in producing and reproducing national identities. Using individual case studies and comparative frameworks, it presents diverse empirical and theoretical insights from and about a range of African countries. The volume demonstrates in particular the usefulness of the curriculum as a lens through which to analyse the production and negotiation of national identities in different settings. Chapters discuss the tensions between decolonisation as a moment in time and decolonisation as a lengthy and messy process, the interplay between the local, national and international priorities of different actors, and the nuanced role of historiography and language in nation-building. At its heart is the need to critically investigate the concept of "the nation" as a political project, how discourses and feelings of belonging are constructed at school, and what it means for schools to be simultaneously places of learning, tools of socialisation and political battlegrounds. By presenting new research on textbooks, practitioners and policy in ten different African countries, this volume provides insights into the diversity of issues and dynamics surrounding the question of schools and national identities. It will be of particular interest to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students of comparative and international education, sociology, history, sociolinguistics and African studies.

Download or read book Religiosity on University Campuses in Africa written by Abdoulaye Sounaye and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines religiosity on university campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on both individuals and organized groups, the contributions open a window onto how religion becomes a factor, affects social interactions, is experienced and mobilized by various actors. It brings together case studies from various disciplinary backgrounds (anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, literature) and theoretical orientations to illustrate the significance of religiosity in recent developments on university campuses. It pays a particular attention to religion-informed activism and contributes a fresh analysis of processes that are shaping both the experience of being student and the university campus as a moral space. Last but not least, it sheds light onto the ways in which the campus becomes a site of a reformulation of both religiosity and sociality.

Download or read book Le processus de scolarisation au Togo written by Marie-France Lange and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CETTE THESE DECRIT LE PROCESSUS DE SCOLARISATION AU TOGO DE LA CREATION DES PREMIERES ECOLES AU FONCTIONNEMENT ACTUEL DU SYSTEME SCOLAIRE. LA DEMARCHE HISTORIQUE A ETE PRIVILEGIEE, TANDIS QUE LES DIFFERENTES TECHNIQUES D'INVESTIGATIOIN SONT UTILISEES POUR METTRE A JOUR LA TOTALITE DU FAIT SCOLAIRE. LES APPROCHES DEMOGRAPHIQUE, MACRO-SOCIALE ET ANTHROPOLOGIQUE ONT AINSI PERMIS, DE FACON COMPLEMENTAIRE, DE COMPRENDRE QUELLES SONT LES CONDITIONS DE L'INSTITUTION DE L'ECOLE EN AFRIQUE.

Download or read book Boundaries Communities and State Making in West Africa written by Paul Nugent and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining three centuries of history, this book shows how vital border regions have been in shaping states and social contracts.

Download or read book Manual of Romance Languages in Africa written by Ursula Reutner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than two thousand languages spread over its territory, multilingualism is a common reality in Africa. The main official languages of most African countries are Indo-European, in many instances Romance. As they were primarily brought to Africa in the era of colonization, the areas discussed in this volume are thirty-five states that were once ruled by Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, and the African regions still belonging to three of them. Twenty-six states are presented in relation to French, four to Italian, six to Portuguese, and two to Spanish. They are considered in separate chapters according to their sociolinguistic situation, linguistic history, external language policy, linguistic characteristics, and internal language policy. The result is a comprehensive overview of the Romance languages in modern-day Africa. It follows a coherent structure, offers linguistic and sociolinguistic information, and illustrates language contact situations, power relations, as well as the cross-fertilization and mutual enrichment emerging from the interplay of languages and cultures in Africa.

Download or read book Togo written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the IMF has released a growing number of reports and other documents covering economic and financial developments and trends in member countries. Each report, prepared by a staff team after discussions with government officials, is published at the option of the member country.

Download or read book O sont pass s tous les manuels scolaires written by Tony Read and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cette étude de la Banque mondiale est une riche compilation d'informations sur le matériel pédagogique d'apprentissage (MPA) sur la base de la vaste expérience et les multiples facettes de l'oeuvre de l'auteur dans le secteur de l'éducation en Afrique. L'étude examine un large éventail de questions autour de la fourniture MPA dont le curriculum, l'alphabétisation et le calcul, la langue de la politique d'instruction, d'approvisionnement et de distribution des défis, ainsi que le développement et la production du MPA et de leur disponibilité, gestion et utilisation dans les écoles. Il se penche également sur le rôle de la technologie de l'information et de la communication (TIC) basé sur le matériel pédagogique d'apprentissage et de leur disponibilité. L'étude reconnaît que l'amélioration de la gestion du système MPA est un élément essentiel dans la réalisation de la prestation du MPA abordable et durable pour tous les élèves. Cette étude, qui puise dans plus de 40 pays anglophones, francophones, lusophones et de pays arabophones sera particulièrement utile pour les décideurs, les partenaires au développement, et d'autres intervenants qui tentent de comprendre le large éventail de questions liées à la complexité de la fourniture de manuels scolaires en Afrique subsaharienne.

Download or read book Back to Africa written by Kwesi Kwaa Prah and published by Casas. This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: