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Foreign Aid, Democratisation and Civil Society in Africa: A Study of South Africa, Ghana and Uganda [PDF]

, 1997
The 1990s have seen increased interest on the part of Western governments in funding civil society in Africa in an attempt to promote the continent's democratisation process.
Julie Hearn
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Assessing the Seasonal Water Requirement of Fully Mature Japanese Plum Orchards: A Systematic Review

Applied Sciences
Japanese plums have relatively high water requirements, which depend on supplementing rainfall volumes with accurately quantified irrigation water. There is a lack of knowledge on the seasonal water requirements of plum orchards.
Munashe Mashabatu, Nonofo Motsei, Nebojša Jovanović, Timothy Dube, Ubaidullah Mathews, Yolanda Nqumkana   +5 more
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Comparing Multidimensional Poverty with Qualitative Indicators of Well-Being [PDF]

This paper examines multidimensional stochastic dominance when one of the indicators of well-being, such as household size or place of residence, is qualitative. It also uses a test for strict dominance based on the empirical likelihood ratio.
Jean-Yves Duclos, Yélé Maweki Batana
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Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chinese and Western Development Approaches in Africa: Implications for the SDGs

, 2019
ThisDevelopment chapter discusses the entry of ChinaChina into the game of foreign finance in AfricaAfrica in an international comparative perspective. We present an analysis of long-run changes in the allocation of Western aidAid both globally and in AfricaAfrica, along with estimates of the global sectoral allocation of Chinese aidAid.
Broich, T., Szirmai, A., Adedokun, A.
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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
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Patient-cost studies on self-administered treatment (SAT) for drug-sensitive tuberculosis compared to facility-based directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS): a protocol for a systematic review

BMJ Open
Introduction Many patients with tuberculosis (TB) suffer from a huge economic burden, even though TB services are often provided free of charge at the point of care. Costs can create significant barriers, hindering patients’ access to TB treatment. These
Carmen Sue Christian, Yonela Faith Ndlangalavu   +1 more
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The Contribution of African Philosophy in Challenging Western Hegemony and Globalization [PDF]

The purpose of this article is to explore the contribution of African philosophy in challenging the impacts of Western hegemony and globalization on Africa.
Abneh, Getye
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Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source