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Erika Fuchs, 1906–2005
(2015)
Erika Fuchs gilt als die Grande Dame des deutschen Comics. In ihrer über 30 Jahre andauernden Tätigkeit als "Chefredakteurin" des Micky-Maus-Magazins übersetzte die Kunsthistorikerin unzählige US-amerikanische Disney-Comics ins Deutsche. Sie verlegte mit dem für sie charakteristischen extrem freien aber sprachlich sehr gehobenen Übersetzungsstil die Welt von Donald Duck und Mickey Mouse nach Deutschland und prägte dadurch die Sprache mehrerer Leser-Generationen.
Günter Eich, 1907–1972
(2015)
Günter Eich (1907–1972) zählt zu den bekanntesten und vor allem in den 50er und 60er Jahren nachhaltig rezipierten Dichtern, Hörspielautoren und Übersetzern der Nachkriegszeit. Der posthum 1976 erschienene gelbe Suhrkamp-Band mit dem Titel "Aus dem Chinesischen", in dem Eichs Anfang der 50er Jahre erschienene Übersetzungen versammelt sind, dürfte seine relativ weite Verbreitung und Bekanntheit dem Ruhm des Dichters verdanken.
Die Sowjetunion unter Stalin war ein Ort, an dem Terror und Gewalt herrschten, in der öffentlichen Propaganda aber wurde sie zeitgleich als Hort der "Brüderlichkeit" und "Völkerfreundschaft" inszeniert. Die Kulturpolitik jener Jahre zielte auf eine sowjetweite Repräsentation der nationalen Kulturen und die Etablierung einer "multinationalen" Sowjetliteratur bzw. Sowjetkultur. Ungeachtet der ideologischen Gleichschaltung war das Arsenal von Figuren des Nationalen keineswegs für alle gleich, sondern hing von den jeweiligen geschichtlichen und (religions-)kulturellen Traditionen der einzelnen Völker ab. Am Beispiel Georgiens lassen sich kulturelle Phänomene - wie etwa die Kolchis, das georgische Pantheon nationaler Heroen oder die Figur des mittelalterlichen Dichters Šota Rust'aveli - als "Figuren des Nationalen im Sowjetimperium" untersuchen. Georgien ist nicht nur deshalb ein interessantes Beispiel, weil Stalins Heimat in den offiziellen Diskursen viel Aufmerksamkeit erhielt. Die georgische Kultur - und damit gleichsam die Sowjetkultur generell - ließ sich auch durch ihre weit in die Vergangenheit zurückreichende kulturelle Tradition als eine besonders alte Kultur inszenieren.
Erich Arendt, 1903–1984
(2015)
Erich Arendt zählt zu den bedeutendsten Übersetzern spanischsprachiger Lyrik ins Deutsche. Seine Übersetzungen von Pablo Neruda und anderen ebneten den Weg für die Rezeption der lateinamerikanischen Dichtung zunächst in der DDR, später dann in der BRD. Auch zentrale Persönlichkeiten der spanischen Dichtung des 20. Jahrhunderts wie Vicente Aleixandre, Rafael Alberti und Miguel Hernández wurden von Arendt ins Deutsche übertragen. Erich Arendt steht exemplarisch für die Figur des "Dichter-Übersetzers".
Die Sammlung von Aufsätzen des Frankfurter Lehrers, Erziehungswissenschaftlers und Soziologen besteht aus drei Teilen: In dem ersten Teil wird der Frage nachgegangen, aus welcher Perspektive heraus Unterricht hermeneutisch erschlossen werden und in welche Theorietradition sich eine hermeneutische Unterrichtsforschung stellen kann bzw. sollte. In dem zweiten Teil sind sodann Aufsätze versammelt, in denen grundlegende Fragen des Unterrichts neu aufgegriffen werden: Welche Probleme stellen sich zu Beginn einer jeden Unterrichtsstunde und welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, diese zu lösen? Worauf beruht die Autorität einer Lehrperson und wie wird diese im Unterricht durch die beteiligten Akteure kommunikativ erzeugt oder auch vermindert? Wie sind Unterrichtsstörungen zu deuten und wie ist mit ihnen umzugehen, wenn davon ausgegangen wird, dass diese Momente eines Interaktionsprozesses sind, die jeweils situativ emergieren? Was bedeutet es für Schüler, sich am Unterricht zu beteiligen? Und welche Situationen können sich ergeben, wenn die Schülerschaft einer Klasse in kultureller Hinsicht äußerst heterogen ist? Die Art und Weise, wie diese Fragen behandelt werden, ist nicht nur durch das besondere methodische Vergehen gekennzeichnet, sondern auch durch einen kasuistischen Zugang: Auf der Basis theoretischer Vorüberlegungen wird stets ein empirisches Beispiel herangezogen, um an diesem diese theoretischen Überlegungen nicht nur zu überprüfen, sondern schließlich auch weiterzuentwickeln. Dabei ist die Stoßrichtung stets dieselbe: Die Vielzahl möglicher Deutungen von Unterricht wird nicht bestritten, doch die Fruchtbarkeit einer dezidiert pädagogischen Deutung dieses Geschehens wird immer wieder hervorgehoben. Abgeschlossen wird der Band mit Aufsätzen zu Fragen der Professionalisierung von Lehrerinnen und Lehrern. So wird das Verhältnis zwischen der Didaktik, vor allem didaktischer Theorien und der Theorie der Professionalisierung ausgelotet. Und es wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Konsequenzen sich aus der pädagogischen Kasuistik für die Professionalisierung von Lehrpersonen sowie für die Theorie der Professionalisierung ziehen lassen. Auch diese Fragen werden jeweils mit Bezug auf empirische Beispiele erörtert. (DIPF/Verlag)
Die Bestandsaufnahme der Fachkräftesituation 2014 zeigt, dass sich aus Sicht der hessischen Betriebe die Anzeichen für künftige Probleme eher verdichten. Deutlich mehr Betriebe erwarten, bei einzelnen der neu zu besetzenden Fachkraft-stellen Probleme zu bekommen, und nur noch wenige Betriebe erwarten gar keine Probleme. Hierbei ließe sich einwenden, dass negative Erwartungen noch keine realen Schwierigkeiten bedeuten müssen, zumal der Anteil der Betriebe, die aktuell bereits Stellen nicht besetzen können, weiterhin eher gering ausfällt, und die Beurteilung vor dem Hintergrund einer sehr hohen Arbeitskräftenachfrage stattfindet, die sich in dieser Form nicht fortsetzen muss. Demgegenüber stehen aber andere Daten, die einen skeptischen Blick in die Zukunft eher stützen. Insbesondere der deutliche Anstieg der Zahl der Fachkraftstellen, die im letzten halben Jahr nicht besetzt wurden, ist hier zu nennen; darüber hinaus sind hiervon, anders als in der Vergangenheit, nicht nur die kleinsten Betriebe, sondern auch kleine und mittelgroße Betriebe häufiger betroffen. Es lässt sich demnach festhalten, dass bereits heute bei der Besetzung von Fachkraftstellen nicht nur punktuell Schwierigkeiten bestehen, die sich aus Sicht der hessischen Betriebe tendenziell verstärken werden. Diese Erwartung führt mehrheitlich zu der Reaktion, stärker in das eigene betriebliche Humankapital zu investieren, insbesondere durch Qualifizierungsmaßnahmen, aber auch durch betriebliche Ausbildung. Besonders an Bedeutung gewonnen haben aber Strategien, die die Erhaltung der innerbetrieblichen Potenziale zum Ziel haben, wie eine längerfristig angelegte spezifische Personalentwicklung oder die längere Bindung älterer Fachkräfte an den Betrieb. Die Hinwendung zu den eigenen, bereits vorhandenen Potenzialen zeigt, dass die Betriebe um die Schwierigkeiten bei der externen Besetzung wissen. Absehbar ist jedoch darüber hinaus, dass für eine effektive Hebung bislang ungenutzter Potenziale die Betriebe Impulse und Unterstützungen durch Dritte brauchen. Dies betrifft z.B. die Ausweitung der Beschäftigung von Frauen, aber auch die rasche und qualifikationsadäquate berufliche Integration von Zuwanderern, bei denen die Betriebe allein und ohne flankierende Maßnahmenrasch überfordert sind. Eines der Instrumente, mittels derer eine bessere Arbeitsmarktintegration von Nichtdeutschen und somit einer Erschließung von ungenutzten Potenzialen erreicht werden kann, ist das sog. Anerkennungsgesetz. Eine erste Bilanz der betrieblichen Einschätzung des Gesetzes fällt jedoch schwer. Das Gesetz ist einer Mehrheit der Betriebe bislang unbekannt, und auch die Betriebe, die damit vertraut sind, sehen nur selten eine Relevanz für die eigene Personalgewinnung. Es gibt jedoch Anzeichen, dass insbesondere Betriebe, die aktuell oder zukünftig mit Stellenbesetzungsproblemen kämpfen, das Gesetz für ihre Personalrekrutierung nutzen möchten, auch in Branchen, in denen das bislang kaum geschah. Somit erscheint es förderlich für die Fachkräftesicherung, die Möglichkeiten des Anerkennungsgesetzes spezifisch für diese Betriebe bekannter zu machen, so dass ein höherer Anteil der Betriebe dieses Instrumentarium nutzen kann.
Beschäftigungsprognose 2016/2017 für die Region Rhein-Main :
IWAK-Betriebsbefragung im Herbst 2015
(2015)
Folgende Beschäftigungstrends in der Region Rhein-Main sind für die Jahre 2016 und 2017 zu erwarten: Die Gesamtbeschäftigung in der Region Rhein-Main wird bis Ende 2016 voraussichtlich um 1,3 Prozent steigen, was einem Zuwachs von hochgerechnet 27.400 Beschäftigten entspricht. Die Zahl der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten steigt nach Einschätzung der Betriebe etwas weniger an, nachdem in den vergangenen Jahren hier meist höhere Zuwächse zu beobachten waren. Die künftige Beschäftigungsentwicklung verläuft in den Wirtschaftszweigen unterschiedlich. Mit einem leichten Stellenabbau rechnen in 2016 nur die Öffentliche Verwaltung und die Betriebe des Logistiksektors. Insbesondere im IuK-Sektor und im Handel werden deutliche Beschäftigungsanstiege prognostiziert. Dies gilt auch für das Gastgewerbe, das den dritthöchsten Zuwachs aller Branchen erwartet. Die Unterschiede zwischen der erwarteten Entwicklung der Gesamtbeschäftigung und der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung sind in den Wirtschaftszweigen eher gering. Ein Jobmotor der Region sind erneut die kleineren Betriebe, die bis Ende 2016 mit einem Beschäftigungszuwachs von zwei Prozent rechnen. Mittel- und Großbetriebe erwarten eher unterdurchschnittliche Zuwächse, wobei letztere in der Vergangenheit zumeist rückläufige Beschäftigtenzahlen meldeten. Auch mittelfristig erwarten die Betriebe in der Region Rhein-Main eher einen Anstieg der Beschäftigung; für 2017 wird mit einem weiteren Zuwachs um rund ein Prozent gerechnet. Hierbei ist aber, wie bereits bei den letztjährigen Prognosen, zu berücksichtigen, dass Prognosen über einen längeren Zeitraum auch mit höheren Unsicherheiten verbunden sind. Auch in diesem Zeithorizont rechnen die Kleinstbetriebe sowie die Gastronomiebetriebe mit deutlich mehr Beschäftigten, während in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung bzw. im Finanz-und Versicherungsbereich sowie in Großbetrieben 2017 ein leichter Rückgang der Beschäftigtenzahlen erwartet werden kann.
Folgende zentrale Befunde lassen sich für Ergebnisse der Befragung 2014 festhalten: Im Herbst 2014 konnten knapp 20 Prozent aller Betriebe in der Region Rhein-Main offene Stellen nicht besetzen. Dies ist im Vergleich zu den zurückliegenden Jahren ein hoher Wert. Hochgerechnet entspricht dies etwa 38.000 offenen Stellen, was ebenfalls einen hohen Wert darstellt, der aber in der Vergangenheit schon übertroffen wurde. Größere Probleme bei der Stellenbesetzung gibt es sowohl in den personenbezogenen als auch den technischen Dienstleistungen wie auch im Baugewerbe. Besonders viele offene Stellen finden sich in den Kleinstbetrieben, nur wenige in Großbetrieben. Dieses Muster hat sich in den letzten Jahren nochmals deutlich verstärkt. Bei Ausbildungsstellen haben Betriebe die relativ höchsten Schwierigkeiten bei der Rekrutierung, bei Stellen mit niedrigem Anforderungsprofil hingegen kaum. Der Mangel an Bewerbungen ist bei allen Qualifikationsgruppen der Hauptgrund für die Schwierigkeit der Betriebe, offene Stellen zu besetzen. Sieben Jahre zuvor waren es hingegen vor allem fehlende Qualifikationen der Bewerber.
Bereits heute stellt jeder fünfte Betrieb der Region einen Arbeitskräfterückgang fest. Besonders spürbar ist dies in Sektoren, die auch über Stellenbesetzungsprobleme klagen: Erziehung und Unterricht, Gesundheits- und Sozialwesen, Baugewerbe. Als Reaktion auf den zunehmenden Mangel an Arbeitskräften setzen die Betriebe auf vielfältige interne und externe Maßnahmen, am häufigsten zeigen sie sich bei Einstellungen kompromissbereiter als in der Vergangenheit. Die Ausweitung betrieblicher Aus- und Weiterbildung hat hingegen als Strategie deutlich an Bedeutung verloren. Grund hierfür könnte sein, dass die entsprechenden Potenziale vielfach ausgereizt sind. Trotzdem bilden 44 Prozent der Betriebe der Region grundsätzlich aus. Von diesen ist knapp die Hälfte nicht zu Kompromissen bei der Besetzung von Ausbildungsstellen bereit. Am ehesten werden Zugeständnisse bei den schulischen Vorkenntnissen gemacht, aber auch Kompromisse bei den sozialen Qualifikationen finden sich deutlich häufiger als in der Vergangenheit. Die Gründe für die Nichtausbildung sind unterschiedlich, für die Mehrheit der nichtausbildenden Betriebe kommt eine Ausbildung jedoch generell nicht in Frage.
Beschäftigungsprognose 2015/2016 für die Region Rhein-Main :
IWAK-Betriebsbefragung im Herbst 2014
(2015)
Folgende Beschäftigungstrends in der Region Rhein-Main sind für die Jahre 2015 und 2016 zu erwarten: Die Gesamtbeschäftigung in der Region Rhein-Main wird bis Ende 2015 voraussichtlich um 1,2 Prozent steigen, was einem Zuwachs von hochgerechnet 24.500 Beschäftigten entspricht. Die Zahl der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten steigt nach Einschätzung der Betriebe noch leicht stärker an – eine Verdrängung sozialversicherungspflichtiger Beschäftigung durch andere Beschäftigungsformen findet demnach 2015 nicht statt. Die künftige Beschäftigungsentwicklung verläuft in den Sektoren unterschiedlich. Mit einem Stellenabbau rechnet in 2015 nur das Gastgewerbe, aber auch im verarbeitenden Gewerbe und der Öffentlichen Verwaltung werden nur geringe Zuwächse erwartet. Insbesondere im Informations- und Kommunikationssektor, aber auch im Bereich der wirtschaftsnahen Dienstleistungen sowie der Sonstigen Dienstleistungen werden deutliche Beschäftigungsanstiege prognostiziert. Dies gilt überraschender Weise auch für das Baugewerbe, das den zweithöchsten Zuwachs aller Branchen erwartet. Die Unterschiede zwischen der Gesamtbeschäftigung und der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung sind in den Sektoren eher gering. Ein Jobmotor der Region sind erneut die sehr kleinen Betriebe, die bis Ende 2015 mit einem kräftigen Beschäftigungszuwachs rechnen. Klein- und Mittelbetriebe erwarten eher durchschnittliche Zuwächse. Anders ist dies bei den Großbetrieben, die von einer Stagnation der Gesamtbeschäftigung und einem nur leichten Zuwachs der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung ausgehen. Mittelfristig erwarten die Betriebe in der Region Rhein-Main eher einen weiteren Anstieg der Beschäftigung; bis Ende 2016 wird mit einem Zuwachs von zwei Prozent gerechnet. Hierbei ist aber – wie bereits bei den letztjährigen Prognosen - zu berücksichtigen, dass Prognosen über einen längeren Zeitraum auch mit höheren Unsicherheiten verbunden sind. Auch in diesem Zeithorizont rechnen die Kleinstbetriebe sowie die Dienstleistungsbetriebe, insbesondere der IuK-Sektor mit deutlich mehr Beschäftigten, während in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung sowie dem Verarbeitenden Gewerbe eine Stagnation bzw. im Finanzbereich ein leichter Rückgang der Beschäftigtenzahlen erwartet werden kann.
Die Ursachen für eine vorzeitige Lösung von Ausbildungsverträgen können vielfältig sein. Falls das Ausbildungsverhältnis gleich zu Beginn wieder gelöst wird oder der Auszubildende seine Stelle gar nicht erst antritt, liegt es nahe, die Ursachen in einer defizitären Berufsorientierung und Berufswahl auf Seiten der Jugendlichen zu suchen. Hierbei können unzureichende Kenntnisse über die Ausbildung selbst ebenso wie falsche Erwartungen an die Berufsinhalte oder auch eine mangelnde Integration in die betriebliche Praxis maßgeblich sein; auf der anderen Seite kann auch von Seiten der Betriebe eine nicht adäquate Betreuung der Auszubildenden für ein schnelles Ende des Ausbildungsverhältnisses sorgen. Die Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels Hessen 2014 belegen, dass dies ein durchaus auch quantitativ nennenswertes Problem ist: Jeder neunte im Ausbildungsjahr 2013/2014 abgeschlossene Ausbildungsvertrag wurde noch im gleichen Jahr wieder aufgelöst,
und 15 Prozent der ausbildenden Betriebe in Hessen waren von einer vorzeitigen Lösung betroffen.
Von den frei werdenden Stellen wiederum wird ein sehr kleiner Anteil nachbesetzt, der Großteil der Ausbildungsplätze bleibt vakant.Dieses Problem trifft nicht die gesamte betriebliche Ausbildungslandschaft gleichermaßen. Besonders häufig finden sich vorzeitige Vertragslösungen im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe, wo jeder fünfte Neuvertrag wieder gelöst wird, und in den kleineren betrieben Hessens mit weniger als 50 Beschäftigten. Im Bereich der wirtschaftsnahen und wissenschaftlichen Dienstleistungen kommen vorzeitige Vertragslösungen hingegen nahezu gar nicht vor, und auch in der Öffentlichen Verwaltung und den Großbetrieben werden nur selten Ausbildungsverträge gleich zu Beginn wieder aufgehoben. Die deutlichen Unterschiede belegen, dass es einer genauen Analyse der Gründe für die Vertragslösungen bedarf, die mit den Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels allerdings nicht möglich ist. Bei aller Differenziertheit der Betrachtung bleibt festzuhalten: Die vorzeitige Lösung eines abgeschlossenen Ausbildungsvertrags ist in der Regel weder für den Betrieb noch für den Auszubildenden wünschenswert. Die Anstrengungen aller Beteiligten sollten daher auf eine Vermeidung einer Vertragslösung zielen, wobei alle Phasen von der Berufsorientierung über die Berufswahl und die Einmündung in den Betrieb bis hin zur Begleitung der Ausbildung betrachtet und bei Bedarf fachlich begleitet werden sollten.
Betriebliche Ausbildung in Hessen 2014 : Stand und Entwicklung
IAB-Betriebspanel-Report Hessen
(2015)
Die Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels zeigen, dass sich die Verbreitung und die Intensität der betrieblichen Ausbildung in Hessen über die Jahre nicht massiv verändert hat. Auch 2014 ist die Ausbildungsbereitschaft ähnlich hoch wie in den Vorjahren, die Ausbildungsquote ist leicht höher als zuletzt.
Dass dies nicht Ausdruck von Stagnation ist, im Ausbildungsmarkt vielmehr große Bewegung herrscht, zeigen vor allem zwei andere Daten: Noch nie im Zeitraum der Panelbeobachtung boten die hessischen Betriebe mehr Ausbildungsstellen an und noch nie konnten so viele angebotene Stellen nicht besetzt werden wie im Jahr 2014. Die Betriebe sind demnach bereit, mehr auszubilden als in Vergangenheit; dass dies auch aufgrund der demografischen Erwartungen geschieht, liegt dabei nahe und wird von einer anderen Erkenntnis gestützt: Besonders hoch ist die Ausbildungsbeteiligung bei Betreiben, die bereits heute Schwierigkeiten bei der Rekrutierung von Fachkräften haben oder eine Überalterung der Belegschaft erwarten. Eigene Ausbildung ist hier ein quasi „natürliches“ Gegenmittel, das allerdings angesichts des zurückgehenden Potenzials an ausbildungswilligen und ausbildungsfähigen Jugendlichen ebenfalls schwieriger wird. Besonders große Schwierigkeiten, Ausbildungsstellen zu besetzen, haben wie in der Vergangenheit die kleineren Betriebe sowie Betriebe des Produzierenden Gewerbes. Dies sind Betriebe die traditionell viele Auszubildende beschäftigen, aber möglicherweise seitens der Jugendlichen gegenüber Großbetrieben und Betrieben aus dem Bereich der Öffentlichen Verwaltung weniger attraktiv gesehen werden.
Es lässt sich also festhalten: Das Bemühen der hessischen Betriebe, eigene Fachkräfte auszubilden, ist überaus groß, die hierbei auftretenden Schwierigkeiten derzeit offenkundig auch. Was von den Betrieben getan wird, um trotzdem viele Jugendliche für eine Ausbildung zu gewinnen und sie dort zu halten, wird Gegenstand des zweiten Ausbildungsreports sein.
Anfangs war die Erwartung skizziert worden, dass aufgrund der bislang nur sehr langsamen Angleichung der Beschäftigungs‐ und Karrierechancen zwischen den Geschlechtern größere Veränderungen binnen zwei Jahren eher nicht zu beobachten sein werden.
Die aktuellen Ergebnisse des IAB‐Betriebspanels bestätigen dies weitgehend: Die strukturellen Differenzen in der Beschäftigungssituation haben sich im Wesentlichen erneut gezeigt. Frauen sind in qualifizierten Tätigkeiten noch immer unterrepräsentiert, zugleich aber deutlich häufiger auf Teilzeitstellen beschäftigt oder befristet eingestellt als ihre männlichen Kollegen, zudem bleibt die Verteilung der Geschlechter auf die Sektoren sehr ungleich. Dass die Zahl der beschäftigten Frauen generell ebenso wie die Zahl der teilzeit‐ und befristet beschäftigten Frauen einen neuen Höchststand erreicht hat, ist dem generellen Beschäftigungsaufschwungs geschuldet und unterstreicht die strukturellen Differenzen eher noch. Auch bei Betrachtung der betrieblichen Führungsetagen bietet sich ein ähnliches Bild: Die Zahl der Frauen, die die höchste Hierarchiestufe erreichen, hat sich zwar erhöht, ihr Anteil liegt nahezu unverändert bei knapp einem Viertel aller Führungskräfte. Auf der zweiten Führungsebene findet sich eine deutlich größere Zahl von Frauen, aber auch hier war zuletzt kein Zuwachs mehr zu verzeichnen. Zudem konzentriert sich dies auf spezifische Wirtschaftszweige mit ohnehin hohen Frauenanteilen – im Produzierenden Gewerbe arbeiten und führen nur wenige Frauen. Nur punktuell finden sich auch Anzeichen für eine Verbesserung der Situation. So steigt in Großbetrieben der Anteil weiblicher Führungskräfte auf der zweiten Ebene kontinuierlich und deutlich, was Anlass zu der Erwartung gibt, dass dies mittelfristig auch auf der ersten Ebene wirksam wird. In mittelgroßen Betrieben ist dies bereits der Fall – dort hat sich der Anteil der Frauen auf der ersten Führungsebene in den letzten zehn Jahren mehr als verdoppelt. Die erstmals erhobene Verbreitung von Führungskräften, die ihre Aufgabe in Teilzeit wahrnehmen, liefert ebenfalls interessante Erkenntnisse. In jedem fünften hessischen Betrieb besteht diese Möglichkeit, und über 22.000 Führungskräfte machen hiervon Gebrauch. Von diesen ist immerhin ein Drittel männlich, wobei vor allem in Branchen mit vielen beschäftigten Frauen beide Geschlechter an Teilzeitführung partizipieren. Zusammengenommen zeigt dies, dass weiterhin große Anstrengungen nötig sind, wenn am Ziel einer größeren Gleichverteilung der Beschäftigungs‐ und Karrierechancen festgehalten werden soll. Zudem gibt es Anhaltspunkte, dass die stetige Etablierung von Maßnahmen zur Chancengleichheit in den betrieblichen Alltag zu deren Akzeptanz beiträgt, weshalb die gezielte Werbung und Unterstützung der Betriebe somit eine wichtige Aufgabe für die Akteure bleibt.
Die Diskussion um einen möglichen Fachkräftemangel ist in den letzten Jahren wieder stärker geworden. Aktuell berichten Betriebe verschiedener Branchen über Schwierigkeiten, geeignete Arbeits- und Fachkräfte zu finden. Hierbei bestehen jedoch deutliche Unterschiede, nicht nur zwischen einzelnen Berufsgruppen oder Branchen, sondern auch zwischen unterschiedlichen regionalen Arbeitsmärkten. Bedingt wird dies durch einen wanderungsbedingten Bevölkerungszuwachs in Ballungszentren, während ländliche und strukturschwache Regionen vermehrt von Abwanderung betroffen sind. Wie immer man den gegenwärtigen Fachkräftemangel bewertet: Absehbar ist, dass sich die genannten Entwicklungen fortsetzen und verstärken werden. Zukünftig werden - bei gleichbleibenden Bedingungen - weniger Menschen in Deutschland und Hessen leben. Damit geht unweigerlich ein Rückgang der potentiellen Erwerbspersonen einher. Gerade in den nächsten beiden Jahrzehnten scheidet eine große Anzahl an Erwerbstätigen rentenbedingt aus dem Arbeitsmarkt aus – die sogenannten geburtenstarken Nachkriegsjahrgänge. Gleichzeitig werden deutlich weniger junge Menschen auf den Arbeitsmarkt nachrücken als in der Vergangenheit, weil die Geburtenraten seit Jahren konstant niedrig sind. Nicht nur in Hessen werden sich demnach auf dem Arbeitsmarkt die Relationen von Angebot an und Nachfrage nach Arbeits- und Fachkräften verschieben. Bereits bestehende regionale Differenzen verschärfen sich dadurch vorraussichtlich noch. Um geeignete Strategien gegen drohende Arbeitskräfteengpässe zu planen und die Leistungsfähigkeit der regionalen Wirtschaft zu erhalten, bedarf es regionaldifferenzierter Informationen über die zukünftige Entwicklung auf dem hessischen Arbeitsmarkt. Derartige Daten liefert das Informations- und Prognosesystem regio pro.
Das vorliegende Papier stellt den Endbericht des Projektes „regio pro – Flächendeckende Einführung des Frühinformationssystems zur Qualifikations- und Beschäftigungsentwicklung in Hessen“ dar. Erstellt wurde der vorliegende Bericht im Dezember 2014. Der gesamte Projektzeitraum erstreckte sich vom 01.06.2011 bis zum 31.12.2014. Gefördert wird das Projekt vom Hessischen Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Energie, Verkehr und Landesentwicklung aus dem Europäischen Sozialfonds und Landesmitteln.
In der Großregion Saarland-Lothringen-Luxemburg-Rheinland-Pfalz-Wallonie-Deutsch-sprachige Gemeinschaft Belgiens ist ein rasanter demografischer Wandel zu erwarten, die Altersstruktur der Bevölkerung wird sich erheblich verändern. Die Zahl der über 80-jährigen, hochaltrigen Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner in der Großregion wird bis zum Jahr 2030 voraussichtlich um 29,4% steigen. Im Jahr 2013 lebten 626.065 Menschen im Alter von über 80 Jahren in der Großregion, im Jahr 2030 werden es 812.657 sein. Besonders stark dürfte der Anstieg der hochaltrigen Bevölkerung in der DG Belgien (+44,4%) und in Luxemburg (+36,2%) ausfallen. Da mit einer älter werdenden Bevölkerung auch die Zahl der Personen steigt, die auf professionelle Pflege angewiesen sind, steht die Großregion vor folgender Herausforderung: Mit einer ausreichenden Zahl an Pflegekräften muss die pflegerische Versorgung für den erhöhten Bedarf sichergestellt werden. Dafür ist eine Bedarfsanalyse für die kommenden Jahre notwendig.
This monograph focuses on Gnokholo, a precolonial province of Senegal that has long been landlocked because of its eastern position and inhabited by Mandingoans. The decline of the Malian empire in the 15th century has been confined to a situation of geographical marginality in the foothills of the mountains Of the Fouta Djalon. This book reconstructs the geography, history, economy, culture and social structures of the pre-colonial Gnokholo Kingdom. It fills a deficit insofar as social studies have neglected these populations considered as part of a minority culture. Written in a simple and clear style, this book is in keeping with the tradition of the work of Father Boilat. It is an anthropological collection of a body of knowledge revealing various aspects of the country and the inhabitants of the Gnokholo.
This book explores the emergent character of social orders in Sudan and South Sudan. It provides vivid insights into multitudes of ordering practices and their complex negotiation. Recurring patterns of exclusion and ongoing struggles to reconfigure disadvantaged positions are investigated as are shifting borders, changing alliances and relationships with land and language. The book takes a careful and close look at institutional arrangements that shape everyday life in the Sudans, probing how social forms have persisted or changed. It proposes reading the post-colonial history of the Sudans as a continuous struggle to find institutional orders valid for all citizens. The separation of Sudan and South Sudan in 2011 has not solved this dilemma. Exclusionary and exploitative practices endure and inhibit the rule of law, distributive justice, political participation and functioning infrastructure. Analyses of historical records and recent ethnographic data assembled here show that orders do not result directly from intended courses of action, planning and orchestration but from contingently emerging patterns. The studies included look beyond dominant elites caught in violent fights for powers, cycles of civil war and fragile peace agreements to explore a broad range of social formations, some of which may have the potential to glue people and things together in peaceful co-existence, while others give way to new violence.
Consisting of 214 poems and 79 poets, from over 23 African countries and the Diasporas, Best New African Poets 2015 Anthology: Poetry contains poems that deal with a panoply of issues, feelings, thoughts, ideas, beliefs, on identity, Africanness (Blackness, Whiteness, Arabic, Asian), culture, heritage, place, politics, (mis)governance, corruption, exile, loss, memory, spirituality, sex, gender, love, the individual and many others. It travels from Cape to Cairo, Monrovia to Nairobi, rooms in the beautiful Moroccan Sahara desert, pastoral idyllic Savannas, the rainy equatorial rainforests and then flies into the Diasporas as each poet speaks his/her own story of the Africa that she/he knows, dreams and envisions with protective pride and resolute dedication.
The rural poor face a major challenge to access financial services provided by the formal banking system. These poor are excluded from the system because of the requirements imposed on them by that banking sector. The microfinance promise is to ensure that the excluded have access to financial products. Financial intermediation of microfinance through microcredit, micro-transfers, micro-saving and micro-insurance has gained popularity in the developing countries of the world during the past thirty years. For these countries the question is to determine the potential role of microfinance in reducing poverty and in strengthening economic growth. While a considerable amount of research has been undertaken in other parts of the world on these issues, there is a dearth of empirical knowledge in the Central African countries. This book 'Microfinance in Central Africa: The challenge of the excluded' presents results of empirical research concerning microfinance institutions in Central Africa. The book draws from a project that was supported by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) in the context of the Centre's globalization, growth and poverty programme initiative. The project examined issues related to the market for microfinance, institutional considerations, efficiency and behaviour of key actors and the impact of microfinance. The studies within the project were undertaken by teams of researchers and doctoral students, all mainly economists and jurists, in four countries in Central Africa, namely: Cameroon, Chad, Congo Republic and Gabon. The book should serve as a reference guide with respect to the microfinance experience in the region for the scientific community, policy makers and other development practitioners.
This book brings together twenty think-pieces on contemporary Human Rights issues at the international, regional and national level by one of Africa's foremost scholars of International Human Rights and Constitutional Law, J. Oloka-Onyango. Ranging from the 'Arab Spring' to the Right to Education, the collection is both an in-depth analysis of discrete topics as well as a critical reflection on the state of human rights around the world today. Taking up issues such as the African reaction to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the question of truth and reconciliation before the outbreak of post-election violence in Kenya and the links between globalization and racism, the book is a tour de force of issues that are both unique as well as pertinent to human rights struggles around the world.
Finding a Way Home
(2015)
Home is a place in ourselves where we are happy with ourselves, where we find peace with ourselves, where we are satisfied, fulfilled... The important theme coursing through all the stories in the novel, Finding a way home, is that we have to make the journey to find our homes, we have to find the path, and start walking in that path.
The idea that human beings are inextricably bound to one another is at the heart of this book about African agency, especially drawing on the African philosophy Ubuntu, with its roots in human sociality and inclusivity. Ubuntu's precepts and workings are severely tested in these times of rapid change and multiple responsibilities. Africans negotiate their social existence between urban and rural life, their continental and transcontinental distances, and all the market forces that now impinge, with relationships and loyalties placed in question. Between ideal and reality, dreams and schemes, how is Ubuntu actualized, misappropriated and endangered? The book unearths the intrigues and contradictions that go with inclusivity in Africa. Basing his argument on the ideals of trust, conviviality and support embodied in the concept of Ubuntu, Francis Nyamnjoh demonstrates how the pursuit of personal success and even self-aggrandizement challenges these ideals, thus leading to discord in social relationships. Nyamnjoh uses a popular Ivorian drama with the same title to substantiate life-world realities and more importantly to demonstrate that new forms of expression, from popular drama to fiction, thicken and enrich the ethnographic component in current anthropology.
This book, the first of its kind on Anglophone Cameroon, brings significant local context into the practice of law particularly at a juncture when civil practice has been radically altered by Cameroon's ongoing effort at harmonization of both the substantive and procedural laws applicable in the courts. The book covers a wide spectrum of topics including: the commencement of civil actions, jurisdiction, simplified recovery procedures and measures of execution, provisional execution and stay of execution. It provides a detailed analysis of the relevant rules of court applicable in both the high court and court of appeal. One of its major strengths lies in its use of recent cases to demonstrate the way Cameroonian judges have dealt with local procedural laws, as well as how the differences between Cameroonian indigenous rules of practice and those imported particularly from Nigeria and England are reconciled.
Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now
(2015)
Zimbabwe: The Urgency of Now, is a follow-up creative non-fiction book to Zimbabwe: The Blame Game. It goes further than The Blame Game and focuses on Zimbabwe in the GNU entity, the 2013 elections, post elections and post GNU Zimbabwe, and Now. They are a myriad number of problems, issues, limitations that still unbundles Zimbabwe's push towards multiparty democracy, social justice, economic sanity and growth, and The Urgency of Now focuses on the solutions to these. It also tackles the land reform in South Africa, how this could be its biggest problem going forward. It goes further and tackles the larger Africa problem toward democracy, growth, stability and unity, and why the progress towards the United States of Africa has been moribund.
Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals is an invitation to readers to consider factoring in the often discarded or censored but useful information held by the dominated. The books principal claim is that the unsaid weighs in significantly on the scale of semantic construction as that which is said. Thus, it legitimates the impact of the absentee in broadening and clarifying knowledge and understanding in most disciplines. In other words, just as exogenous epistemologies have underlain and explicated the basis for understanding diverse encounters-social, political, historical, cultural, literary, etc.-Secrets, Silences, and Betrayals challenges, from a pluridisciplinary angle, such highly dominant approaches to investigating the origin, nature, ways of knowing, and limits of human knowledge. It thus yields to the deontological basis to critically reexamine our understanding of the world around us. It is in this regard that the present volume points towards the need for human history to become a cumulative record and re-recording of every human journey and endeavor in life; it brings together disparate voices illuminating topical issues that would be or have been legated to posterity as nonexistent, partial, or half-truths.
Chieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally transformed in the process. Almost everywhere on the continent, chiefdoms and chiefs have become active agents in the quest for ethnic, cultural symbols as a way of maximising opportunities at the centre of bureaucratic and state power, and at the home village where control over land and labour often require both financial and symbolic capital. Chieftaincy remains central to ongoing efforts at developing democracy and accountability in line with the expectations of Africans as individual 'citizens' and also as 'subjects' of various cultural communities. This book uses Cameroon and Botswana as case studies, to argue that the rigidity and prescriptiveness of modernist partial theories have left a major gap in scholarship on chiefs and chieftaincy in Africa. It stresses that studies of domesticated agency in Africa are sorely needed to capture the creative ongoing processes and to avoid overemphasising structures and essentialist perceptions on chieftaincy and the cultural communities that claim and are claimed by it.
Revolution: Struggle Poems
(2015)
Revolutionary as a way of solving problems bedevilling our place under the sun, revolutions we witnessed in The Middle East, revolutionary in writing, text, textiness of text, the poetic genre, attitude of mind, ideas, living. Poems in Revolution take the experimental approach as they deal with the above struggle issues and many others. They go further in bringing into focus how our revolutions have not delivered us across the line, and how to get across the line.
The relationship between police and the public in formerly colonised countries of Africa has never been smooth. It is plagued with clich's of suspicion, mistrust, and brutality which are all a result of the legacy of draconian policing in colonial Africa. This colonial hangover has chiefly been an upshot of sluggish switching from the mantra of colonial policing to community progressive policing advocated in democratic societies. This book, the result of five years of ethnographic and library research on the interaction and relationships between police and members of the public in Zimbabwe, is a clarion call for a generative progressive working together between the police and the public for a peaceful and orderly society. While it traces the historical trends and nature of policing in Africa and in particular Zimbabwe, the book demonstrates how law, morality and policing enrich one another. The book offers critical insights in the interpretation of contemporary policing in Zimbabwe with a view to inform and draw lessons for both police and the public. It should be of interest not only to legal anthropologists but also political scientists, members of the public, police instructors, police officers, and students and educators in academic disciplines such as criminal justice, criminology, law, sociology, African studies, and leadership and conflict management.
Moving beyond existing approaches that largely deal with the biophysical consequences of climate change realities in Africa, this book explores an alternative perspective that traces climate change as a travelling idea. It focuses on how globally constructed discourses on climate change find their way to the local level in the Bamenda Grassfields of Cameroon, thereby seeking to understand how these discursive practices lead to social transformations, and to new configurations of power. In the translation process from the 'global' to the 'local' level a continuous modification and appropriation of the idea of climate change takes place that finally leads to a concrete implementation of climate change related projects and sensitization campaigns. Hence, it is argued that in this increasingly interconnected and mediated world people in Africa (and elsewhere in the world) do not solely adapt to a changing climate, but also adapt to a changing discourse about the climate. Travelling between traditional rulers and their palaces, to the world of NGOs, journalists and ordinary farmers this study brings the reader on a captivating journey, that reveals how climate change engages in a variety of ways with different lifeworlds, revitalizes local cosmologies, gives birth to a new development paradigm, and moreover how it evokes apocalyptic anxieties and trajectories of blame at the grassroots level.
Questions surrounding democracy, governance, and development especially in the view of Africa have provoked acrimonious debates in the past few years. It remains a perennial question why some decades after political independence in Africa the continent continues experiencing bad governance, lagging behind socioeconomically, and its democracy questionable. We admit that a plethora of theories and reasons, including iniquitous and malicious ones, have been conjured in an attempt to explain and answer the questions as to why Africa seems to be lagging behind other continents in issues pertaining to good governance, democracy and socio-economic development. Yet, none of the theories and reasons proffered so far seems to have provided enduring solutions to Africas diverse complex problems and predicaments. This book dissects and critically examines the matrix of Africas multifaceted problems on governance, democracy and development in an attempt to proffer enduring solutions to the continents long-standing political and socio-economic dilemmas and setbacks.
On 20th January 1964, at the Colito Army Barracks just outside Dar es salaam, 15 officers of the Tanganyika Army that was inherited from the colonial state led a mutiny against the independent Tanganyika government. One group went to the State House with the intention of forcing President Julius Nyerere to accept their demands. What would have happened if they had succeeded in entering the State House and if President Nyerere had refused to accept their demands, as he most likely would have done? Anything could have happened and in the worst case scenario Tanzanias history and indeed the history of the whole of Africa would have been seriously affected. This book is about the courage and quick thinking of Peter Bwimbo, the then head of the Presidential Protection Unit and Nyereres Chief Body Guard who, alone, planned and executed an ingenious and successful evacuation of President Nyerere and Vice President Rashid Kawawa, whisking them away from the State House before the mutineers got there. By a clever ruse he convinced the ferry operators on duty before dawn to ferry them across the Kigamboni Creek. From there they walked several miles to a hiding place in a house that was offered by an ordinary citizen and where they stayed until the situation was normalised several days later.
The Mind of Africa
(2015)
William Abraham studied Philosophy at the University of Ghana, and even more Philosophy at Oxford University. Thereafter, he gained permission to take part in the competitive examination and interview for a fellowship at All Souls' College. The examination was once described, with some exaggeration, as 'the hardest exam in the world!' It included a three-hour essay. Following his success in becoming the first African fellow of All Souls, his interest in African politics quickly developed into a Pan-African perspective. The Mind of Africa, written while he was still at All Souls, was a fruit of that enlarged perspective. After several years as a Fellow, he had occasion to visit Ghana in 1962. There Kwame Nkrumah, then President of Ghana, successfully persuaded him to return to Ghana to teach at the University of Ghana, Legon and he subsequently resigned from All Souls. In 1968, he went to the United States as a visiting professor. This was followed by invitations to teach at various academic institutions there, including Berkeley and Stanford. He subsequently settled in California, where he continued to teach and research philosophy in the University of California at Santa Cruz until his retirement. ...The Mind of Africa appeared at a time when a number of African countries were obtaining, or fighting for, their political freedom from their colonial rulers and becoming independent nations and expecting to build new societies in accordance with their own visions and conceptions, though not necessarily jettisoning all the features of their colonial heritage. Building new societies requires appropriate ideologies and philosophies fashioned within the crucible of their cultural and historical experiences. Thus, the relation between ideology and society is taken up at the very outset of the book... The Mind of Africa is important for Africa's future and identity.
In the nineteen 60s and 70s, the University of Dar es salaam was recognised internationally as a great academic institution, and the site of anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, socialist studies and activism. With the onslaught of neo-liberalism beginning with Structural Adjustment Programmes in Tanzania in the mid 80s, the university was one of its prime targets; subjected to numerous pressures designed to extinguish the flames of revolutionary scholarship and activism. The establishment in 2008 of the Mwalimu Nyerere Chair on Pan - Africanism with Professor Issa Shivji as its first Chairman, and the annual Distinguished Nyerere Lectures Series inaugurating annual intellectual festivals was, in Professor Shivji's introduction to this volume of collected lectures, 'the resurrection of radical Pan-Africanism at the University of Dar es salaam.' The impact of the festivals and the lectures went well beyond the university community, as substantial number of the participants at these lectures and debates were citizen intellectuals, not part of the university community. The calibre of the distinguished lecturers speaks for itself; there could be no better representation of progressive African intellectuals honouring the legacy of Mwalimu Nyerere, than Professors Wole Soyinka, Samir Amin, Bereket Habte Selassie, Micere Githae Mugo and Thandika Mkandawire whose lectures are published in this book.
This edited volume is about the rekindled investment in the figure of the first president Julius K. Nyerere in contemporary Tanzania. It explores how Nyerere is remembered by Tanzanians from different levels of society, in what ways and for what purposes. Looking into what Nyerere means and stands for today, it provides insight into the media, the political arena, poetry, the education sector, or street-corner talks. The main argument of this book is that Nyerere has become a widely shared political metaphor used to debate and contest conceptions of the Tanzanian nation and Tanzanian-ness. The state-citizens relationship, the moral standards for the exercise of power, and the contours of national sentiment are under scrutiny when the figure of Nyerere is mobilized today. The contributions gathered here come from a generation of budding or renowned scholars in varied disciplines - history, anthropology and political science. Drawing upon materials collected through extensive fieldwork and archival research, they all critically engage the existing literature about Tanzania and prevailing political narratives to explore how nationhood is (re)imagined in Tanzania today through assent and contest.
Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have minorities from the Indian sub-continent amongst their population. The East African Indians mostly reside in the main cities, particularly Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Kampala; they can also be found in smaller urban centres and in the remotest of rural townships. They play a leading social and economic role as they work in business, manufacturing and the service industry, and make up a large proportion of the liberal professions. They are divided into multiple socio-religions communities, but united in a mutual feeling of meta-cultural identity. This book aims at painting a broad picture of the communities of Indian origin in East Africa, striving to include changes that have occurred since the end of the 1980s. The different contributions explore questions of race and citizenship, national loyalties and cosmopolitan identities, local attachment and transnational networks. Drawing upon anthropology, history, sociology and demography, Indian Africa depicts a multifaceted population and analyses how the past and the present shape their sense of belonging, their relations with others, their professional and political engagement. This book is a must-read for contemporary researchers, students, policy practitioners as well as the general reader.
The East African Tax System
(2015)
This book is a comparative study of the tax systems of the five members of the East African Community (Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It deals with various aspects of business profit tax, customs duties, excise duties, personal income tax and value added tax of the East African Community member states. It also sheds light on the intergovernmental fiscal relations and reviews the status of tax administrations in these countries. The books is of use to a wide range of readers, including students, researchers, policy makers, tax administrators, and business people interested in the East African Tax System and Tax Administration.
Africa: Beyond Recovery
(2015)
Professor Thandika Mkandawire, the first to hold the Chair in African Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the thirty-second in the Aggrey-Fraser-Guggisberg Memorial Lecture series at the University of Ghana in 2013. In these lectures, combining with and imagination with down-to-earth political economy, he traces Africa's attempts at growth and development since the independence era, her attempts at recovery from a string of serious socio-political set-backs, and advocates for the role of universities as essential agents in the drive to sustained development.
Tumbuka is the dominant language in the Northern Region of Malawi. It is, however, also spoken in large pockets of Kasungu District in the Central Region and also in the Eastern Province of Zambia, and in Lundazi District in particular. Tonga, spoken in Nkhatabay and Nkhotakota, is like a cousin to Tumbuka with a close resemblance in their phonetics. Like other Bantu languages, Tumbuka is very expressive, but can also be very economic in communication or use of words, and yet clearly delivering the desired message. This can be done through the use of idioms, proverbs, or ideophones. This collection is on commonly used Tumbuka ideophones, where an ideophone shall mean 'a word describing a situation, or a state of affairs, or a set of actions - all in one word.' It is the intention of this collection to provoke both interest in the use of ideophones as a form of expression in literature and to expound on the richness of Bantu languages.
The Christian faith is comprehensive and diverse, so the question, what the centre is, can be asked. Different answers have been given, to which this book adds another. The venture of the Christian faith is missions, following Kenneth Scott Latourette's thesis that the Holy Spirit moves forward the history of the church by bringing in ever new revivals, which produce ever new organisations. Therefore missions are not the children of the churches, but of the revivals, and Africa was not evangalised by the European and American churches, but by the Europeans and American mission societies.
Indigenous knowledge is the dynamic information base of a society, facilitating communication and decision-making. It is the cornerstone of many modern-day innovations in science and technology. It is also a ready and valuable resource for sustainable and resilient livelihoods, and attracts increasing public interest due to its applications in bio-technology, health, bioprospecting, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, food preparation, mathematics and astronomy. INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF NAMIBIA is a fascinating compendium aimed at a wide readership of academics and students, government officials, policy makers, and development partners. The 17 chapters examine the indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants for treating HIV/AIDS, malaria, cancer, and other microbial infections of humans and livestock; indigenous foods; coping and response strategies in dealing with human-wildlife conflicts, floods, gender, climate change and the management of natural resources. A new rationalisation of adolescent customary and initiation ceremonies is recommended in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic; and a case study of the San people of Namibia speaks to the challenges of harmonising modern education with that of indigenous people.
100 years since the end of German colonial rule in Namibia, the relationship between the former colonial power and the Namibian communities who were affected by its brutal colonial policies remains problematic, and interpretations of the past are still contested. This book examines the ongoing debates, conflicts and confrontations over the past. It scrutinises the consequences of German colonial rule, its impact on the descendants of victims of the 190408 genocide, Germanys historical responsibility, and ways in which post-colonial reconciliation might be achieved.
Life, Love, Lies
(2015)
Life, Love, Lies is a collection of reflections on perhaps the two most mundane yet fundamental aspects of human existence: love and the concept of living. In between, are matters benign and not so benign - on life - amassed, experienced and/or lived, for well over half a century now; on everything from the tabula rasa of childhood to the flow of world history.
Issue Two of Women in Islam includes investigations of social issues, profiles of inspiring women, book and film reviews, poetry, and opinion pieces. The theme of the dossier, The Female Body: A Contested Land, focuses on womens bodies, including articles on FGM, sexual harassment, and how art can challenge repressive social norms. Another section focuses on masculinity and the ways men can support women in the struggle for equality. Other highlights include profiles of Somali singer and politician Saado Ali Warsame, an analysis of Sudans discriminatory legal system, and a portrait of a Muslim society in Sumatra where religion and matriarchal traditions coexist.
Nothing to See Here
(2015)
In Nothing to See Here, sixteen African women writers ably deal with the politics of nationhood and identity, and the burden and beauty of womanity. From the serious, to the absurd to the seriously absurd, these stories will leave you pondering, crying and laughing as you travel from East Africa to Southern Africa through to West Africa. A beautiful collection with 16 well-written, well-plotted stories from 16 amazing African female storytellers. - Zukiswa Warnner
This publication addresses the extent to which social work curricula in Kenya prepares graduates to handle issues of poverty and social development, the specific knowledge and skills that they are equipped with an existing gaps therein. In addition, the challenges that confront the training and practice of social workers and what needs to be done to ensure that there is an enabling environment for social work education and practice in the country have also been addressed. The publication, which is the outcome of a study on the promotion of professional social work towards social development and poverty reduction in East Africa, analyses the role that professional social work plays in the efforts to reduce poverty, enhance social development and realise the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Kenya. Consequently, emphasis has been laid on the status of professional social work education and practice in preparing social workers to address issues of poverty and MDGs in the country. Cross cutting gender issues that impact on social work education and practice which in turn affect the efforts to address poverty in Kenya have also been analysed. Given that the time span for MDGs was to end in 2015, the authors envisage that the lessons learnt through this study, and the gains made with regard to MDGs should not end in the set time span but rather, that social work educators and practitioners, together with other stakeholders in policy formulation and implementation, still have more to of in making sure that these gains are consolidated into social work training and practice, with additional efforts being made towards sustainable poverty reduction efforts in Kenya.
Contemporary Oral Literature Fieldwork is based on rich research experience dating back to the 1990s. The book is written against the backdrop of Africa's confusion with regard to the place of oral literature in the face of the rest of the world, where oral literature exists in conjunction with new literary forms. Wasamba argues that the oral and the written literatures are complementary literary forms. Throughout the work, the author underscores the universal dimension of oral literature as he demonstrates its particular attributes.
Names and Secrets
(2015)
Names and Secrets won the Burt Book Award, Kenya and is the story of Chekai, a teenage boy who survives school bullying to become a champion of peaceful coexistence in an ethnically and economically divided society. Matur County is an example of a country that faces internal divisions. It is a county that is under increasing danger from external threats, including terrorism. Chekai is bullied by his teacher, Ms Letia and his class prefect, Goliath. This reflects the ethnic suspicions and economic inequalities that threaten to tear the society apart. However, Chekai thinks realistically about the problems in his society. Through curiosity, he discovers that unlike what is said, the people of Matur County have a lot in common. He realises that they will only defeat their real enemies if they are united. Chekai wins a presidential essay writing competition and becomes a peace ambassador. He uses his new position to chart a new path on which everyone will walk. This includes those who previously bullied him, and those who had been discriminated against.
The manual, Beyond Ethnicism. Exploring Racial and Ethnic Diversity for Educators, a first of its kind in Kenya, speaks to the key issues of ethnic and racial belonging that are such a key-determining factor in defining and dividing Kenyans. These two issues influence many social, economic and especially political decisions. The manual transcends the limitations of current discussions on ethnicism and racism. Questions of ethnic and racial belonging are connected to some of the deepest moral and political decisions of our time. Belonging is an emotional subject that as a country citizens should not lose capacity to discuss coherently. An educator who wanted to know how to end ethnicism and racism inspired the writing of this manual. Ethnic and racial favoritism as well as discrimination have seeped into the Kenyan education system. Educators sit in staff-rooms as members of political parties or ethnic communities and sometimes consciously or unconsciously perpetuate ethnic and racial stereotypes and prejudices. Educators find talking about ethnicism and racism difficult. They do not know where to begin yet they can recognise ethnicism and racism in learners. Sometimes they practice it themselves, favouring or discriminating learners on the basis of ethnicity or race. Educators are sometimes helpless in arresting ethnicist and racist practices in their learners or themselves, as they do not have the tools to do so. This manual is a practical resource which assists educators in contextualising ethnic and race related concerns without undermining the human rights, it also helps in creating the space for discourse amongst educators on how to combat ethnicism and racism. It asks rarely addressed critical and significant questions on the meaning of ethnic and racial belonging. The manual addresses the arresting of stereotypes and prejudice before they morph into actual discrimination and sometimes violence.
When voters enthusiastically turn up to cast their vote during general elections, they expect that their action would meaningfully change their lives. But in most of Africa, even when elections are held on a regular basis, voters are quite often disappointed by the performance of their leaders who use the new positions as an opportunity to loot public resources and consolidate power. It is almost as if elections are of minimal value to the populace. Notwithstanding this trend, when they are free and fair, general elections can be transformative. They can bring into the political arena men and women of integrity committed to service and account-ability. Inspired by the determination to have inclusive governance and the advancement of democracy, Kenya's 2013 General Election: Stakes, Practices and Outcomes asks important questions related to political participation, coalition building, politics of identity, the international criminal court, electoral systems and institutions, and the judiciary. The papers are written by mainly Kenyan academics and civil society actors who examine the drivers of the 20?3 general elections and the sources of the mandate to lead.This book is part of publications by Twaweza Communications on democratic practice and accountable governance in Kenya.
During the run-up to Kenya's 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were raised. Could past mistakes, especially political and ethnic-related violence, be avoided this time round? Would the spectre of the 2007 post-electoral violence positively or negatively affect debates and voting? How would politicians, electoral bodies such as the IEBC, the Kenyan civil society, and the international community weigh in on the elections? More generally, would the 2013 elections bear witness to the building up of an electoral culture in Kenya, characterized by free and fair elections, or would it show that voting is still weakened by political malpractices, partisan opinions and emotional reactions? Would Kenya's past be inescapable or would it prepare the scene for a new political order? Kenya's Past as Prologue adopts a multidisciplinary perspective - mainly built upon field-based ethnography and a selection of case studies - to answer these questions. Under the leadership of the French Institute for Research in Africa (Institut franca̧is de recherche en Afrique, IFRA), political scientists, historians and anthropologists explore various aspects of the electoral process to contribute in-depth analyses of the last elections. They highlight the structural factors underlying election and voting in Kenya including the political system, culture and political transition. They also interrogate the short-term trends and issues that influence the new political order. The book provides insight into specific case studies, situations and contexts, thus bringing nuances and diversity into focus to better assess Kenya's evolving electoral democracy.
Nyuma Ya Pazia
(2015)
Nyuma Ya Pazia or Behind the Curtain is about corruption involving the president, and his ministers who rob the country of Mafuriko or Abracadabra. President in conjunction with his Premier brought fake foreign insecticide company; Richmen to invest in power generation in Mafuriko. Through logrolling Richmen lands a very lucrative tender used as a conduit of stealing millions from the Central Bank. Richmen is used to syphon billions of dollars from the treasury. When people get wind of this theft, force the government to crumble thereby rulers are punished by being jailed or other being sentenced to death. The book satirizes African kleptocratic regimes.
Between Rhetoric and Reality : The State and Use of Indigenous Knowledge in Post-Colonial Africa
(2015)
Since time immemorial, indigenous peoples around the world have developed knowledge systems to ensure their continued survival in their respective territories. These knowledge systems have always been dynamic such that they could meet new challenges. Yet, since the so-called enlightenment period, these knowledges have been supplanted by the Western enlightenment science or colonial science hegemony and arrogance such that in many cases they were relegated to the periphery. Some Euro-centric scholars even viewed indigenous knowledge as superstitious, irrational and anti-development. This erroneous view has, since the colonial period, spread like veld fire to the extent of being internalised by some political elites and Euro-centric academics of Africa and elsewhere. However, for some time now, the potential role that indigenous peoples and their knowledge can play in addressing some of the global problems haunting humanity across the world is increasingly emerging as part of international discourse. This book presents an interesting and insightful discourse on the state and role that indigenous knowledge can play in addressing a tapestry of problems of the world and the challenges connected with the application of indigenous knowledge in enlightenment science-dominated contexts. The book is not only useful to academics and students in the fields of indigenous studies and anthropology, but also those in other fields such as environmental science, social and political ecology, development studies, policy studies, economic history, and African studies.
Blot On The Landscape
(2015)
The Pan African Anthropological Association (PAAA) marked the 10th anniversary of its creation by holding its 9th Annual Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon - the city and country of its birth, from 30 August-2 September 1999. The conference, themed 'The Anthropology of Africa: Challenges for the 21st Century', was attended by some seventy participants, mostly African. Among the international participants was Dr Sydel Silverman, President of the Wenner Gren Foundation at the time, a long term partner of the PAAA who was present at the inaugural conference in 1988. The conference proceedings were initially published in 2000 with very limited circulation. Given the continued relevance of the papers presented, and in view of the call by the President of the PAAA for African anthropologists to reunite anthropological theory and practice in the teaching programmes of African universities, the PAAA has republished the proceedings of its landmark 9th Annual Conference. The book consists of forty three divided into eight parts, namely: teaching anthropology in the decades ahead; Health Challenges: HIV/AIDS Anthropological Perspectives; NGOS: Use and Misuse of Anthropology; Anthropological Focus on Environment; Some Applied Issues in Anthropology; The African Family in Crisis; Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts; and Population issues and anthropology: Fertility Crisis. Paul Nkwi concludes his introduction to the volume with these words: 'The Anthropology of Africa will remain for a long time, fundamentally applied if it is to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.'
This book starts from the premise that the advent of mobile telephony in Mali coincided with economic liberalization, internationalization of trades and new balances in social spaces such as the Bamako market and the Center and Northern regions of Mali already under stress and / or major reconfigurations. These have resulted in increasing the mobility made ??both inside and outside the country (migrants and displaced persons, etc.); the appearance of new figures of businessmen, entrepreneurs, traders and changing trade routes. However, these mobilities produce original territories circulations and various exchanges that can not be understand in the exclusive setting of the local society. Perceived as pens or territorial ghettos, they are also anchors in cities. Centralities invisible and often confused with other businesses, these territories are also internalized operators forming networks between cities and the countryside. The investigated sites are representative of different scales: links, networks and territories across the Sahel and Sahara, and lastly of the territory enclosed within national boundaries, and finally across small parts of that territory, Douentza and the edges of the Sahara, the region of Kidal. In all cases it came to study in parallel, the social structure, the nature of territories or networks and actors that produce them, their links with urban areas, institutions, groups of actors embedded in these territories and movements registered by the use and ownership of the phone.
One of the central theoretical and practical issues in post-colonial Africa is the relevance, nature, and politics at play in the management of museum institutions on the continent. Most African museums were established during the 19th and 20th centuries as European imperialists were spreading their colonial tentacles across the continent. The attainment of political independence has done little to undo or correct the obnoxious situation. Most African countries continue to practice colonial museology despite surging scholarship and calls by some Afro-centric and critical scholars the world over to address the quandaries on the continent's museum institutions. There is thus an unresolved struggle between the past and the present in the management of museums in Africa. In countries such as Zimbabwe, the struggle in museum management has been precipitated by the sharp economic downturn that has gripped the country since the turn of the millennium. In view of all these glitches, this book tackles the issue of the management of heritage in Zimbabwe. The book draws on the findings by scholars and researchers from different academic orientations and backgrounds to advance the thesis that museums and museology in Zimbabwe face problems of epic proportions that require urgent attention. It makes insightful suggestions on possible solutions to the tapestry of the inexorably enigmatic amalgam of complex problems haunting museum institutions in Zimbabwe, calling for a radical transformation of museology as a discipline in the process. This book should appeal to policy makers, scholars, researchers and students from disciplines such as museology, archaeology, social-cultural anthropology, and culture and heritage studies.
According to Fossungu, we need healthy competition for progress. Competition that is not geared toward progress is negative competition. No competition or the absence of self-help is negative competition. With factories competing healthily, consumers have a variety of quality goods and services from which to choose. The entire community benefits when people in any grouping are competing positively; thus making the rules of competition graphical. The central focus of this book is the extent to which Canadian regulations apply without discrimination to all of Canada and to everyone, individuals and corporations alike. A swift answer is affirmative. But is that really it? The book is also about voluntary slavery, which is worse than forced enslavement. Drawing on Ignorance Theory, the book argues that the worst thing that can happen to anyone is to be ignorant of one's ignorance. He who does not know what he does not know will never know. Voluntary African slaves generally employ 'One Has No Choice' (On n'a pas le choix) to cloak their having chosen not to secure their rights. Fossungu demonstrates why he considers this an escapist way of shying away from doing the normal thing, thus giving the dictator or oppressor reason to dictate and oppress with impunity. This is Fossungu at his provocative and controversial best.
One Eternal Sleep
(2015)
In this volume Bill F. Ndi portrays life, death, and dying as one great adventure through which one would explore the limitless bounds of Life. At its best, the collection echoes the words of anthropologist Francis B. Nyamnjoh when he underlines that, 'one is only dead to particular context as a way of making oneself alive to prospective new contexts.' Ndi in this collection invites the reader to learn the art of living through the art of dying and accepting death.
Using linguistic stylings as subversive as the messages nestled between the lines, Vakunta s Requiem for Ongola in Camfranglais: Cameroonian poetics presents a scathing critique of the corruption of democracy into democraziness running rampant in the Sick Man of Africa . Written in Camfranglais, this is resistance poetry at its best: tokking through the mouth of the voiceless , the author pulls no punches in condemning the country s roi fain ant, the perverted acceptance of feymania, the reduction of the national Constitution into toilet paper, and the general climate of impunity that has created an atmosphere of frustration and hopelessness. Calling upon the redeeming power of the Word Speak truth! these verses deftly navigate through the multilingual lexicon of a new, African hybrid language, providing an insider s account of the real stakes at hand in Ongola, the Ewondo word for Yaound .
The Last Of The Virgins
(2015)
Evelyn Ndangeh, a pretty Cameroonian teenager brought up in a strict Christian home, vows to preserve her maidenhood until she gets married to a man she truly loves. While in Our Lady of Lourdes College Mankon, she is approached by Lesley Njapa a student of Cameroon Protestant College Bali, after a student of CCAST Bambili. Evelyn turns him down only to find later that she can't stay alone without a man who must be none other than Lesley. Evelyn begins frantic moves to entice Lesley but on meeting him it seems too late though she gets close to his heart. Tragedy strikes when Lesley is involved in a motor accident. Evelyn arrives Bamenda general hospital wailing and settles beside Lesley to console and comfort him in his agony. Anxiety builds up to a crescendo and a medical team is mobilised to save Lesley's life.
Teachers, through their pedagogical appropriation of information and communication technology (ICT) are sometimes bewildered - as if in the middle of a new ocean. Behind them is all they have learned, and before them lies so much they do not know and that invites exploration. They accompany their students and invite others to join them in this journey. They do their best to learn, deepen their teaching, and perhaps also, through their example and their actions, encourage the revitalization of the school system. Internet is like a sea of knowledge, in a changing world, where one has to navigate with great enthusiasm, curiosity and skill, as well as patience, impatience and perseverance. Let the experiences of Malian teachers shared in this book inspire you.
Africa Reunite or Perish
(2015)
Africa Reunite or Perish is a daring and timely book that explores the essence and nefariousness of neocolonialism in a purportedly independent Africa. The book shows how Africa spends billions of dollars in pseudo threats among African countries due to colonially-entrenched fear and war mongering. The book is emphatic on deconstruction and decolonisation as a categorical imperative for the reunification of Africa beyond the narrow confines of current nation states. Mhango takes a diagnostic-cum-prognostic approach in discussing Africa's predicaments, and in identifying and proposing solutions to problems confronting Africans. The book ascertains Africa's untapped potentials by proving how Africa can live without the infamy of excruciating dependency and beggarliness. It makes a compelling case for African unity beyond the tokenism of officialdom. It prescribes a truly pan-African driven reunification of Africa as the only means of reclaiming the glory she used to enjoy before she was savagely partitioned.
'In Who's Afraid of Mongo Wa Swolenka? a book launch is planned which, from information given to His Royal Excellency Gbadarango Binyambutu Buthablaisi, by a traitorous intellectual seeking preferment; and by his security agents, is a campaign led by disgruntled writers and intellectuals of Nubialand for the return of their exiled colleague and international award winner, Professor Mongo Wa Swolenka. How the celebrated leader of Nubialand and master of gunocratic politics responds to the prevailing circumstances is the nerve centre of dialogue, action and morality in the play.' - John Nkemngong Nkengasong, Writer and critic, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon
This book makes a rare contribution towards the preservation and promotion of ukhaliro wa bene Malawi (Malawian culture) that is fast waning. This dilution of culture was put in motion by the British colonial masters and got exacerbated with the inception of democratic governance in 1994. There is need for concerted efforts amongst various practitioners and stakeholders, led by the government itself, if the situation is to be put under control. Otherwise, sooner or later, it will simply be remote history that long time ago, there was a unique culture in Malawi. The book is a collection of twenty short stories that generally promote such themes as nkharo yiwemi (good behaviour); uheni wa chigolo na sanje (the bad side of selfishness and jealousy); kulimbikira pa vinthu (hard working spirit); and uheni wa mitala (the folly of polygamy), among others. The strength of the book lies in the fact that there is room for the reader to draw their own lessons based on their understanding of a particular story, in addition to the lesson already highlighted there-in. The book is a must read for all, young and old, especially those interested in understanding the societal values, not only about Malawi, but of Africa as a whole.
From Momany's wealthy and agonizing expibasketism so much can be drawn to teach about, demote or promote, and to portray Canada as it has never been properly understood; not only by outsiders but also by Canadians themselves. This book makes an extensive and detailed use of that basket of experience to deliver the message that Canada is not at all the 'children's-best-interests-friendly' nation that it is often mistaken for. Canada may be entitled to what it claims to be. But, since a country or community can only be correctly seen through the workings of the institutions that incarnate it, this study has dared to show a contrary portrait. It documents and proves the theorization that most of the country's institutions that are supposedly there to carter for and protect children and promote their wellbeing and glowing avenir often end up in reality instead actively working against the said children and all what their best interest should properly signify. The hope is that the experts in the relevant fields can find the material presented herein useful for their further specialized and in-depth analyses and sane policy formulation.
The most appealing quality of the novel is its haunting and unusual prose that really ought to be termed poetry. But this is poetry with an added touch as it is also a narrative that weaves together many lives engrossed in the daily struggle for survival. There are no heroes or villains, just ordinary folk trying to make the most of extraordinary circumstances.
There seems to be a sort of prevalent attitude in the Western world that its brand of democracy is something of a catch all solution for all the world's political problems. Hence, Western imperialism has always been sold under the pretext of spreading freedom and democracy. Democracy is beautiful. But it is no proof against imperialism. Whether democracy is causal is another whole consideration. It may be a case of the 'least bad of evil alternatives.' It may be a case of a state of social and political development over and above the way people organize themselves. It may be the fate of rational life on a planet with insufficient energy reserves to support locomotion without predation. But what gives anyone the right to go into a sovereign country and change its foundation through War? The whole democracy and freedom line is a lie to give Western imperialism a friendly face. Imperialism and its lie of spreading democracy is an unmitigated evil, whether for material gain, or the pride fostered by active participation in the machinery of state. Therefore, a people seeking to control their destiny must decolonize imposed Western democracy.
'Poems from Abakwa in Cameroon Pidgin English is one patriotic rage. An anthology of sorts, this book of poems contains wisdom, inspirational reflections and witticisms for all. Through apt descriptions, illustrations, dialogues, interrogations and incisive phraseology, Peter Wuteh Vakunta creates an effective balance of colorful images that traces and documents disturbing accounts and evidences of corruption, greed, skewed values and life experiences that have assaulted his fatherland, betrayed political leaders and institutions, court judges, and parliamentarians as the police-cum-military continue to put their ambitions above the country's needs while forsaking future leaders-children. Vakunta describes how civil servants represent selfish interests and aspirations. Judges are intimidated as the nation's laws continue to be transgressed. The police and military continue to abuse the trust invested in them by civilians and misdirect their patriotism while virtually the entire nation continues to live shaky lives with a punctured integrity. Vakunta does this in popular lingos commonly used by musicians, business folks, and the common man under several labels-pidgin English, Camfranglais, Cam-tok, Camspeak, Majunga tok ...' Dr. Fidelis Achenjang, Union College, USA