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Youth, HIV
(2009)
The five research reports that constitute this monograph are a fruit of the collaboration between the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in African (CODESRIA) and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), two institutions with a longstanding interest in the study of youth and social transformations in Africa. Under the collaboration, 12 young African researchers were able to benefit from fellowships, workshops and the expertise of resource persons. The studies contribute significant empirical insights from five different countries (Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Cameroon) to ongoing debates on how youth and social processes in Africa shape, and are shaped, by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
This meticulous and comprehensive documentation of Cameroonian Youth Day Messages and leadership discourse on youth from 1949 - 2009 is a gold mine for researchers, historians and anyone interested in studying youth, politics and society in Africa. The book presents and explores themes and content of Youth Day Messages: how these messages tied in with, or veered away from, key events and issues of the time; how they served as a platform for West Cameroon governments, and the Ahidjo and Biya regimes to articulate their political vision, justify their policies, sell their respective ideologies to the youth; and what lessons could be drawn from them on competing, conflicting and complementary perspectives on youth agency in Cameroon and Africa. Churchill links the Youth Day to ongoing discussions in Africa about the role and place of youths as agents of development in Africa. Most significantly, he finally puts Cameroon's controversial Youth Day in its appropriate historical context - not as a political device created by the Francophone politicians to distort Cameroonian history and erase 'plebiscite day' from the collective memory as Anglophone nationalists claim, but as a British Cameroons colonial legacy, successfully sold to the Ahidjo regime as a day to be commemorated throughout the federation, by leaders of the federated state of West Cameroon. Churchill Ewumbue-Monono, a senior career diplomat, is Minister Counsellor in the Cameroon Embassy in Moscow. A graduate of the International Higher School of Journalism, and the International Relations Institute of Cameroon in the University of Yaounde, he was a 1991-92 Fellow in Public Diplomacy in Boston University, USA. He has served in Cameroon in various professional capacities. Ewumbue-Monono has written extensively on Cameroon's political history, and his books include Men of Courage, published in 2005.
Youth and Higher Education in Africa : The Cases of Cameroon, South Africa, Eritrea and Zimbabwe
(2009)
Student activism in Africa, at least since the early 1990s, has been preoccupied with popular struggles for democracy in both their respective countries and institutions of higher learning. The changing socio-economic and political conditions in many African countries, characterized by the decline in economic growth and the introduction of multi-party politics, among several other factors, have had different impact on students and student political organizations in African universities. This book recounts the responses of students to these changes in their attempt to negotiate better living and studying conditions. The four case studies contained in the book - Cameroon, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eritrea - clearly reveal the very important aspects of the situation in which African students find themselves in many countries, and underscores the need to understand the character and development of higher education on the continent. Ministries of Higher Education, Vice Chancellors, Deans of Students, Student Unions and parents will find this book very useful in terms of understanding the tensions that often arise at institutions of higher learning and why solutions seem to be elusive.
Whiplash
(2009)
I'm gonna tell you all about it, Mom. I'm gonna tell it like I'm on the end of your bed, talking to you. I'm not gonna cover up, cause there's no need. You'll see how it's all a flippin miracle. The whole weird year. It's only one year in my life, Ma, but it's all the stuff you slept through when I was a kid. All the stuff you fished through when you got up. I'm warning you, Ma, this is the truth. Startling poetry in the grittiest of emotional word go ... raw, tender and laugh-out-loud Whiplash digs its nail into you from the funny - a kickarse gem of a book. Told with landscapes, Whiplash puts Farren on the map as a wordsmith of astonishing talent.
Der beginnende globale Bioenergieboom ist Anlass für heftige und stark polarisierte Debatten. Dabei stehen unterschiedliche Motivationen wie eine verringerte Abhängigkeit von Öl- und Gasimporten oder die Nutzung von Biokraftstoffen zur CO2-Emissionsminderung im Straßenverkehr im Vordergrund und prägen die politische Agenda. Befürworter argumentieren, dass die Bioenergie angesichts der dramatisch steigenden Energienachfrage zu einer gesicherten Energieversorgung und zum Klimaschutz beitragen sowie Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten vor allem in den ländlichen Räumen von Industrie- und Entwicklungsländern schaffen kann. Kritiker halten entgegen, dass durch den Anbau von Energiepflanzen Landnutzungskonflikte zwischen Ernährung, Naturschutz sowie Bioenergie zunehmen werden und negative Klimawirkungen wahrscheinlich sind. Aufgrund der großen Komplexität und Dynamik des Themas, des hohen Maßes an wissenschaftlicher Unsicherheit und der Vielzahl von Interessen ist es bisher nicht gelungen, eine integrierte Einschätzung der Bioenergie als Beitrag zu einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung vorzunehmen. Der WBGU möchte zeigen, dass und wie eine nachhaltige Nutzung von Bioenergie möglich ist, die Chancen nutzt und gleichzeitig Risiken minimiert.
Unter dem Vorzeichen der "Reform" kündigen sich heute fundamentale Veränderungen der Institution Universität an. Die Prinzipien der Hochschulautonomie, der Wissenschaftsfreiheit und einer Bildung, die mehr ist als Ausbildung, werden dabei in nie gekanntem Maße ausgehöhlt. Die Konsequenzen für Universität und Gesellschaft sind noch kaum bedacht und analysiert worden. Was ist aus der modernen Universität geworden, wie sie um 1800 entworfen wurde? Wie behauptet sie ihren Anspruch gegenüber den aktuellen Forderungen nach Effizienz und Exzellenz?
Die Beiträge des Bandes widmen sich diesen Fragen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven.
War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry focuses on Eritrean written poetry from roughly the last three decades of the twentieth century. The poems appear in the anthology Who Needs a Story? Contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic from which a selection is offered here in their original scripts of Ge'ez or Arabic, and in English translation. Who Needs a Story? is the first anthology of contemporary poetry from Eritrea ever published, and War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry is the first book on the subject. Therefore, the groundbreaking effort of the former warrants a discussion of its means of cultural production. All of the poets in Who Needs a Story? participated in the Eritrean struggle for independence (1961-91) as freedom fighters and/or as supporters in the Eritrean diaspora. Thus, contemporary Eritrean poetry divides itself between experiences of war and peace, although one can contain the other as well. War and Peace in Contemporary Eritrean Poetry also includes an extended analysis of one of Eritrea's most famous contemporary poets Reesom Haile, as an example of the kind of extended analysis that many of the poets of Who Needs a Story? should stimulate and, last but not least, a meditation on how the author, a non-native speaker, personally becomes involved in Eritrean poetry translation.