OSSREA Workshops Development Issues and Structural Adjustment in tanzania. These are regional workshops exploring the state of the art in the teaching of and research in http://www.ossrea.net/activities/workshops.htm
Extractions: One of the approaches followed by OSSREA to realize its aim of promoting dialogue and interaction between social scientists, on the one hand, and between the scholars, development practitioners, and policy-makers, on the other hand, is the creation of public forums for the discussion and dissemination of research findings that are pertinent to development. Such forums have taken the form of national workshops, discipline-focused workshops, regional and international thematic conferences and the OSSREA Congress. These workshops and conferences have resulted in important publications. National Workshops Initially, OSSREA had been organizing the National Workshops in collaboration with institutions in member countries. After the formation of the National Chapters, however, each one began to select a topic that is timely and relevant for that country and organised a national workshop in which members of its constituency and other experts in the field can presented papers and participated in the deliberations. This tradition has continued to-date although the timing of the workshops is irregular. So far the following National Workshops have been organised in various member countries: The Indigenization of the Zimbabwe Economy: Problems and Prospects. (18-19 August 1994)
Aga Khan Health Services - Where AKHS Works AKHS has facilities in Kenya and tanzania that provide over 600000 patients The history of AKHS hospitals and health centres in East Africa begins with http://www.akdn.org/agency/akhswork.html
Extractions: India - A doctor examines a baby with the help of a Lady Health Visitor at a health centre in Sidhpur (Photo by Jean-Luc Ray / AKF) Where Aga Khan Health Services Works East Africa India Pakistan Table of Programme Activities in Each Country East Africa The AKDN work in health care in East Africa aims to assist countries in the building of effective, sustainable health systems linking different kinds of services and levels of care. It has an especially significant role to play as a private provider of hospital care in long-established, growing local institutions. Both AKH-N and the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam (AKH-Dar) have been expanded in recent years, inlcuding increases in the number of beds. The simultaneous expansion of ambulatory services and day care allows for the provision of more cost-effective care. Programmes for the development of clinical specialities, including cardiology, paediatrics, orthopaedics, and traumatology, are increasing the range of secondary and tertiary services which these hospitals are able to offer their patients.
African History Professor James Giblin, Department of history, The University of Iowa This vast and denselyvegetated region would appear to be the African environment http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/history/giblinhistory.html
Extractions: Professor James Giblin, Department of History, The University of Iowa Like the art of all peoples, the art of Africans expresses values, attitudes, and thought which are the products of their past experience. For that reason, the study of their art provides a way of learning about their history. Through the study of African art we can study the questions which have long preoccupied historians of Africa. This essay written by a historian who studies the African past presents an introduction to these questions. Its purpose is to encourage students to use their knowledge of African art to think about issues in African history. As students of African art begin to consider the African past, they must also consider how Western conceptions of "race" and "racial" difference have influenced our notions of the African past. These ideas, which have usually contrasted the presumed inferiority of black peoples with the superiority of whites, arose in Western societies as Europeans sought to justify their enslavement of Africans and the subsequent colonization of Africa. Historians now recognize that ideas of racial inferiority have inspired the belief that in the past African peoples lived in a state of primitive barbarism. At the same time, they have realized that many of the European writings which they use to reconstruct the African past such as accounts by nineteenth-century missionaries and travelers, for example are themselves tainted by these same notions of African inferiority.
Extractions: Recent PhDs Jean Comaroff - Barolong, Botswana/South Africa; South Wales (UK); (history, colonialism and postcolonialism, ritual, medicine, the body, neoliberalism, crime, policing and public order) John Comaroff - Barolong (Tswana), Botswana/South Africa; (political and legal systems, historical anthropology, colonialism and postcoloniality, modernity and the politics of identity) Michael Dietler - Southern France; Kenya (Luo); (Archaeology and ethnoarchaeology, colonialism and postcoloniality, political economy, consumption, ritual, material culture, memory, identity politics) Kesha D. Fikes - Cape Verde Islands, Lusophone Africa, Portugal; (race and the bureaucracies of spatial mobility, the relationship between colonial migrant labor projects and post-colonial/post-independence migrant labor phenomena)
Extractions: University of California at Los Angeles The publication in 1974 of the first volume of Immanuel Wallersteins The Modern WorldËSystem was a milestone in the historiography of world history. For the first time the whole complex history of the world since the sixteenth century CE had been presented as part of single integrated process in which social and political structures were correlated with regional economic roles. Wallersteins by now familiar classification of world regions into core, semi-periphery, and periphery provided an elegant framework for analyzing the socio-economic history of the various regions in terms of their function in the World System. Wallersteins scheme has been criticized on many grounds including putative Eurocentrism and overemphasis on the significance of economic factors in history. Probably, no aspect of his work has drawn more criticism, however, than his insistence that the world system was uniquely characteristic of modern history because its appearance was dependent on the emergence of modern capitalism.
East Africa Living Encyclopedia We have chosen the East Africa region for a number of reasons 1. Twentyfive percent of tanzania s land is designated as national parks or game http://www.africa.upenn.edu/NEH/overview.html
GWP - Southern Africa Rainfall is the dominant source of water in the region. To address the water demands in this water scarce region, Southern Africa s water sector is http://www.gwpforum.org/servlet/PSP?iNodeID=133
