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A Dirty Game
(2011)
Mayor Foti is accused of killing his predecessor by a veteran journalist whom he desperately wants dead. He hires assassins to kill the journalist only for the assassins to kill his own son instead. As a consummate embezzler of public funds, Mayor Foti is determined to be filthy rich and above the law. He sends his other son to Germany to assist with siphoning abroad of stolen money. For how long will Mayor Foti have the last laugh? Heavy drinking and a cardiac arrest are waiting round the corner. Whom for? Here indeed is a dirty game!
There is a general agreement that piracy; counterfeiting and passing off are unfair. However, there is often surreptitious - or even open - sympathy for, say, those who purchase counterfeit designer fashions or the latest technical gadgets. The pirate is even sometimes represented as a daring evil hero. In this book, Prof. Dora Nkem Akunyili, Director General of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, presents a unique study of a global phenomenon in which law-breaking and profiteering prevail at the cost of human health and life - and of the ways in which this can be fought by appropriate legislation, regulation and enforcement.
She Seized The Balls
(2011)
In She Seized The Balls, Ntube's exploits can best be described as guided by the hand of providence. In a bid to inherit her father's compound and live comfortably, she destroys the old sacred village grove and fells totemic trees. An epidemic breaks out, killing mostly the elderly. Ntube is accused of causing it because of the destruction of the sacred places. She is brought before the clan council several times but she tantalizes the council with her flawless defences. In due course, she rebuffs her former husband's bid for reconciliation; falls in love with an influential personality and begets a child with him. She uses the man to achieve the building of a bridge across the river that had enclaved the clan for centuries. With her elevated status among her people she becomes the first woman to be given the prerogative to pour libation in a patriarchal society.
Crying in Hiccoughs
(2011)
Crying in Hiccoughs is a graphic presentation of the more realistic phase of Africa's politico-economic and historico-moral evolution in general, and Cameroon's, in particular. From the colonial to the post-independence era, the poet sees nothing worthy of praise-singing and handclapping. So, he resorts to crying in hiccoughs and invites the blind, deaf and dumb brainwashed praise-singers to join him in singing his little songs so as to expose and challenge the demagogy.
Eines der zentralen Konzepte, auf das sich die Sowjetunion in ihrem Selbstverständnis als neue Zivilisation berief, war das Konzept der "Völkerfreundschaft" (družba narodov). Über den naheliegenden Zusammenhang mit der sowjetischen Nationalitätenpolitik (insbesondere stalinscher Prägung) hinaus verweist es auf die propagierte sowjetische Ethik – die Gleichheit aller Sowjetbürger nach der Abschaffung der Klassengesellschaft. Nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion wird dieses Modell des gemeinschaftlichen Zusammenlebens bezogen auf den Raum der Sowjetkultur vor allem als machtpolitische Strategie bzw. in seiner mythenhaften Dimension betrachtet. Anliegen des Workshops ist es, ausgehend vom sowjetischen Freundschaftsbegriff unterschiedliche Facetten und Implikationen der Freundschaft im interkulturellen Vergleich zu diskutieren. So haben Länder und Regionen im Süden und Osten Europas (wie Georgien) beispielsweise die Gastfreundschaft als kulturelle Praktik zu ihrem "Markenzeichen" erklärt. Die Art und Weise, wie die Gastfreundschaft in Literatur und Kunst verhandelt bzw. repräsentiert wird, ist ein Indiz für die nachhaltige Bedeutung des Paradigmas, das bis in aktuelle Konflikte und juristische Diskurse (wie etwa die Frage nach dem Gastrecht oder das ethnisch begründete Restitutionsgesetz im heutigen Abchasien) hineinreicht. Gefragt wird u.a. nach den politischen Implikationen des Freundschaftsbegriffs, nach der Übertragung des interpersonellen Konzepts Freundschaft auf Völker im (sowjetischen) Konzept der Völkerfreundschaft, nach Politisierungsstrategien, nach unterschiedlichen Praktiken der (Gast-)Freundschaft (u.a. im Kontext der Derridaschen Ethik oder der Positionen von C. Schmitt, P. Klossowski oder M. Mauss) oder etwa nach der Bildung formeller und informeller Netzwerke in unterschiedlichen kulturellen und historischen Kontexten. Schwerpunktmäßig im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert angesiedelt, wird im Rahmen des Workshops auch die Genese der (sowjetischen) Konzepte und Praktiken der Freundschaft aus der Antike bzw. der Vormoderne thematisiert.
Justice Mary Ang'awa holds LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from the University of Nairobi. She is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and a Puisne Judge. She is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She has taught the law of succession to judicial officers and advocates of the High Court of Kenya.
This is a pioneer, long overdue and truly original book that off ers a unique, comprehensive and thorough exposition of the criminal law of Cameroon by a leading scholar. This latest book by Professor Carlson Anyangwe adopts a thematic approach, each chapter covering a specific aspect of the criminal law. The text is a clear, simple and comprehensive exposition of all the offences codified in the Penal Code. It offers a rich, clear, learned and discerning analysis to understanding of the criminal law. The book is designed to instruct and to contribute to a deeper understanding of the subject, the treatment of which is unique, informative and makes for compelling reading. This is the first textbook ever on the subject in Cameroon and it is undoubtedly an indispensable tool of trade for judges, prosecutors, lawyers in private practice, academic lawyers, law students and law enforcement officers.
This rich conversational auto-biography tells the story of the political life of Ndeh Ntumazah who was born in Mankon in 1926, spent the best part of his life suffering and sacrificing for the freedom of Cameroon, and died in London on January 21, 2010, at the age of 83, as President of the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC). Ntumazah was a political activist for nearly 60 years. He joined the UPC around 1950 and remained a militant of the party until his demise. When the UPC was banned in French Cameroon in 1955, he was advised by his comrades to create another party in the Southern Cameroons, which would be the UPC in disguise. The party was called 'One Kamerun Movement - OK', with Ndeh Ntumazah as its President. Following its banning, the UPC started a war of liberation in French Cameoon, so Ntumazah from the safety of Southern Cameroons, liaised with his comrades in French Cameroon to carry out their underground operations. Ndeh Ntumazah left Cameroon to seek political asylum abroad in 1962. He stayed in Ghana, Guinea, Algeria and finally in Britain where he spent most of his time sensitising the world about the plight of Cameroon using various avenues like writing, conferences and deputations. Ntumazah is dead, but he lives on because his life stands out as a point of focus.
This study explores the predicament of Anglophone Cameroon - from the experiment in federation from 1961 to the political liberalisation struggles of the 1990s - to challenge claims of a successful post-independence Cameroonian integration process. Focusing on the perceptions and actions of people in the Anglophone region, Atanga argues that what has come to be called the 'Anglophone Problem' constitutes one of the severest threats to the post-colonial nation-state project in Cameroon. As a linguistic and cultural minority, Anglophone Cameroonians realised that the Francophone-led state and government were keener in assimilation than in implementing the federal and bilingual nation agreed upon at reunification in 1960. Calls for national integration became simply a subterfuge for the assimilation of Anglophones by Francophones who dominated the state and government. The book details the various measures undertaken to exploit the Anglophone regionís economy and marginalise its people. Principally the economic structures meant to facilitate self-reliant development were undermined and destroyed. Institutionalised discrimination took the form of the exclusion of Anglophones from positions of real authority, and depriving the region of any meaningful development. With the advent of multi-party politics, most Anglophone Cameroonians increasingly have made vocal demands for a return to a federation, in order to adequately guarantee their rights and recognition for them as a political and cultural minority. Actively encouraged by France, the Francophone-led regime in Cameroon has refused to yield to such demands, despite the grave danger of violent conflict and possible secession.
In this collection Ayuninjam attempts to capture his sentiments on many plains. He also takes the liberty to capture the sentiments of other persons in his life and in society as a whole as well as the sentiments of other creatures that are part of the chain of life. As a result, much of what follows is occasional poetry, as he has more often than not responded or reacted to his sensations while also being a surrogate for those who could (or would) not express theirs. Having lived abroad for as long as he lived in Cameroon, his perspective has, accordingly, been coloured, though not necessarily transmuted. The poems transcend space and time.
Ousmane Semb ne started writing by 1952. The Black Docker, his first novel inspired by the Marseille experience was published in 1956 by Debresse. In 1957, Amiot Dumont published O Pays, mon beau Peuple, a caustic critic of the colonial plight. This second inaugural piece, clearly autobiographical and sentimental is followed up by a vast knowledge of the strike of the Dakar-Niger railway workers: God s Bits of Wood published in 1960 by Livre Contemporain. In 1961, Pr sence Africaine pulished his collection of short stories, Volta que, in 1964 the first volume of l Harmattan which is a replay of the 28th September 1958 referendum in black Africa and in 1966 Vehi-Ciosane followed by The Money Order. To this date with six published novels and a renown Cinematographer, Ousmane Semb ne with the help of his sharp pen and his critical and observant look decides to examine the fate that the new bourgeoisie and the administrative bureaucracy mete on the downtrodden of this ignominious beauty, Dakar, the Capital of an African nation in the wake of independence. Thanks to a money order that Ibrahima Dieng wants to cash, the film maker/writer takes this character through the urban administrative labyrinth, through neighbourly disputes and through family life in the neighbourhood, highlighting and pointing in passing the crossings, abuses, vices and vicissitudes which make up this segment of life, in every aspect, exemplary. The story unfolds with the arrival of a postman carrying a letter and a problematic money order; it ends on the image of the postman handing a letter to Dieng, when a woman carrying a baby on her back comes in and interrupts them to expose the origins of her misfortunes, asking for help.
The Campaign Trail
(2011)
In an uncomplicated plot, The Campaign Trail takes its readers through the independence of a state in fiction, the introduction of a multiparty system, to its demise owing to poor governance and power struggle; this novel has a universal appeal to the political scientist, the literary critic, the sociologist, the anthropologist and just anyone who needs entertainment. The author blends the comic and the tragic to good effect.
Leopard Watch
(2011)
In beautifully constructed verse, JK Bannavti's Leopard Watch tells the story of a Fon who out of greed and veiled impiety devastates the land over which he rules. The Fon, The King of Bamkov is in a perpetual state of slumber while an illusive beast drives terror into the heart of the kingdom, killing children as well as cattle. Neither the cries of the people nor pressure from the notables seems to have any effect on him. The population of the clan diminishes daily while the Fon sleeps, snores, and drools in the day, and growls, chews, and laps in the night. When finally the notables join the youth vigilante group to hunt down the beast, they come face to face with the devourer who narrowly escapes. A day later, one of the notables, Gwei, in a drunken state encounters and kills the leopard at night as he returns from the market. Amidst jubilation and in honor of Gwei the Fon collapses off his horse and dies. His carcass lies in the same state as that of the dead leopard.
The Dialectics of Praxis and Theoria in African Philosophy : An Essay on Cultural Hermeneutics
(2011)
This book is a clarion call for African renaissance informed by African spirituality. It develops the vision that Africans can be the same in the process of change. Africans have to coincide with their ways of perceiving values, and to retrieve their identity wiped out by regrettable historical events. Even in this involvement of revalorisation of their stifled ways, Africans have to be aware of the fact that history has evolved and new human environments are taking place. Any attempt to recover African personality involves a triple necessity. First, to remember the past, second, to analyse critically what Africans have inherited from their past, and lastly, to project new ways and means for a genuine renaissance, free from alienation and exploitation. Bin-Kapela sees in Cultural hermeneutics an appropriate philosophical method to achieve this end of recognising and projecting African spirituality as a universal value.
Removing
(2011)
Melissa Butler lives in Cape Town and Pittsburgh, PA. In the US, she teaches kindergarten. In South Africa, she writes and works with pre schools in the Eastern Cape. She has a Masters degree in Curriculum Theory from Penn State University and a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. This is her first book of poetry.
Universities and economic development in Africa: Pact, academic core and coordination draws together evidence and synthesises the findings from eight African case studies. The three key findings presented in this report are as follows: 1. There is a lack of clarity and agreement (pact) about a development model and the role of higher education in development, at both national and institutional levels. There is, however, an increasing awareness, particularly at government level, of the importance of universities in the global context of the knowledge economy. 2. Research production at the eight African universities is not strong enough to enable them to build on their traditional undergraduate teaching roles and make a sustained contribution to development via new knowledge production. A number of universities have manageable student-staff ratios and adequately qualifi ed staff, but inadequate funds for staff to engage in research. In addition, the incentive regimes do not support knowledge production. 3. In none of the countries in the sample is there a coordinated effort between government, external stakeholders and the university to systematically strengthen the contribution that the university can make to development. While at each of the universities there are exemplary development projects that connect strongly to external stakeholders and strengthen the academic core, the challenge is how to increase the number of these projects. The project on which this report is based forms part of a larger study on Higher Education and Economic Development in Africa, undertaken by the Higher Education Research and Advocacy Network in Africa (HERANA). HERANA is coordinated by the Centre for Higher Education Transformation in South Africa.
This book on Professor Samir Amin retraces his family origins, intellectual itinerary, political struggles as well as his experience in economic policy formulation in Egypt, Mali and many other countries. The fundamentals which shaped Samir Amin's thinking, directed his life-long work and influenced his action spawned from his early discovery in high school of Marxism and Historical Materialism, used as a scientific analysis of the history of human societies. This book also highlights Samir Amin's invaluable contribution to the struggle against capitalism through his indefatigable fight to deconstruct the concepts that are used to disguise the true face of historical capitalism, which is nothing but an unabashed pursuit for accumulation and dispossession of dominated countries and peoples. Through a series of interviews with Samir Amin, the author unravels the poignant and great ideas which have been at the heart of his intellectual and political fight for the last half century. The author also provides a selection of texts which includes an exhaustive bibliography, with all published writings of Samir Amin in French. This rich work is meant for a large readership - students, researchers, teachers, political leaders and citizens who are interested in the phenomenon of globalisation and its impact on the so-called 'under-developed countries.
In the atmosphere of suspicion and anger that characterizes our time, it is a joy to hear the voice of Iqbal, both passionate and serene. It is the voice of a soul that is deeply anchored in the Quranic Revelation, and precisely for that reason, open to all the other voices, seeking in them the path of his own fidelity. It is the voice of a man who has left behind all identitarian rigidity, who has 'broken all the idols of tribe and caste' to address himself to all human beings. But an unhappy accident has meant that this voice was buried, both in the general forgetting of Islamic modernism and in the very country that he named before its existence, Pakistan, whose multiple rigidities - political, religious, military - constitute a continual refutation of the very essence of his thought. But we all need to hear him again, citizens of the West, Muslims, and those from his native India, where a form of Hindu chauvinism rages in our times, in a way that exceeds his worst fears. Souleymane Bachir Diagne has done all of us an immense favor in making this voice heard once again, clear and convincing. - Charles Taylor, Professor, McGill University Quebec, Canada
L'Evad de K... derives from a true story. The story begins with a flash back showing the hero in jail. Cegalo, an adolescent, lives in a difficult family. His father is a kind of headsman unable to educate his son. He strongly believes in the virtue of violence as a means of educating. The son ends up in delinquency. Robbery of tourists, especially white men is his favourite activity. After a hold-up, he is arrested and kept in custody. Unable to control him, the prison authorities decide to send him to the famous Prison of K...This prison is the most secure of the country and nobody has ever escaped from it. In order to survive, many prisoners are condemned to eat all that they can find, even mice. The law in that jungle is 'kill before you are killed'. During a nightmare, his late grandmother appears and orders him to return to his village. It's the beginning of a fantastic and dreadful adventure. He decides to escape from the Prison of K... He succeeds and after covering 300 km on foot, disguised as a mad man to avoid policemen. His aim is quite simple. He wants to return to jail in order to be judged normally, according to the new penal procedure code in force. He kidnaps the Senior Divisional Officer, the Attorney at law and the prison chief and returns to the cell. After the judgement, he is set free. He reconciles with his parents and above all finds Rosy, his childhood love.
The advent of formal independence in former French colonies in Black Africa meant the dawn of a new era: the struggle against neocolonialism. African students rallying around this struggle became new strangers and targets for expulsion out of France. The French government of the time resorted, therefore, to massive expulsions against their labour and political organizations. The implementation in 1956 of the Loi-cadre Gaston Defferre ? meant to divide up Black Africa under French dominion ? and the ensuing explosion of the two great AOF and AEF federations along with the cancellation of scholarship federal commissions will considerably weaken the Fédération des étudiants d?Afrique noire en France (FEANF) [African Student Federation in France] in favour of territorial sections. This meant that African governments were to take charge of their own students. In turn, the former used their embassies and scholarship territorial commissions to squelch those student organizations that were hostile to their collaboration with the French authorities. Among the repressive strategies were the cancellation of scholarships and grants to hotels and residences that were reserved for their students (La Maison de la Côte d?Ivoire, du Gabon, de la Haute Volta, du Congo, d?AOF), the creation of pro-government associations such as that of the Senegalese Progressive Union (UPS), the Student Movement for the African and Malagasy Organization (MEOCAM), and the National Union for Students of Côte d?Ivoire (UNECI). This marked the beginning of the decline of the Fédération des étudiants d?Afrique noire en France (FEANF). The worm had entered the fruit of unity with the implementation of the Loi-cadre.
The struggle for independence and the unity of African countries was at its peak during the period between 1945 and 1960. These testing times turned out to be the formative years of the young Amady Aly Dieng, and set the stage for an eventful life of commitment and challenges of all sorts for someone who ? along with other young African students, many of whom later became leaders of their respective countries ? integrated the leadership of student organizations in France, honing his militant skills at the forefront of the intellectual and political struggle for independence and the unity of the nascent sovereign nations. Amady Aly Dieng?s memoirs are primarily meant to inspire young Africans toward taking action towards true independence and development. These memoirs reflect the historic evolution of youth militancy in Africa and are to serve as an inspiration to leaders of Africa today and tomorrow.
Shadows
(2011)
Shadows, as the title insinuates, splits open and lays bare the frightening vision of humanity, the heart of man depressed, a veritable inferno in which there is little to be enjoyed and everything to be endured, as all is vanity, a gnawing emptiness. Nothing is but what it seems. Simple but without being simplistic, there is in the damp climate of Doh's poetry broken promises, displaced emotional centres, a pervading sense of doom, of impending disaster, and a total helplessness reminiscent of Plato's proverbial mythical cave in which all reality is but shadow, devoid of substance, with the observer chained to the walls of his feelings, beliefs, and unfulfilled ambitions. The second section, Celebration, is, however, a source of warmth, of light, the sun's rays in an otherwise damp and and dark collection.
Jealous in Jozi
(2011)
Ntombi travels to Jozi for the finals of the Teen Voice competition. But it is not a bed of roses. She has left her boyfriend, Olwethu in Cape Town. Her jealous little sister Zinzi is out to make trouble while she's away. And, she must deal with the other contestants she's up against: the cool, talented and gorgeous Alex and the nasty twins, Lindiwe and Sindiwe. Thank goodness her room mate Mahlodi can help her make sense of her confusing emotions. (This is a sequel to Broken Promises.)
Zhero
(2011)
An inspiring and intriguing tale of heroism, Zhero's quest for education and self-worth takes him from the rustic village of Amabra to the cities of Port Harcourt and Lagos. Armed with a determination to succeed against all odds, his quest unearths a malignant problem in the society, which is the degradation and loss of human values. Vincent Egbuson's book is compendium of issues pervading contemporary Nigerian society. It beckons on its readers to emulate acts of kindness and self-sacrifice.
This study explores the nationalist imagination, artistic philosophy and the overtly political dimension of Remi Raji's poetry. It is an attempt to construct a sustained critical discourse on Raji's ongoing body of works. Raji is one of the major poetic voices on the Nigerian literary scene today. With the publication of his first collection, A Harvest of Laughters, in 1997 Raji has continued to strengthen his craft and vision through subsequent volumes: Webs of Remembrance (2000), Shuttlesongs: America - a Poetic Guided Tour (2003), Lovesong for My Wasteland (2005); and Gather My Blood Rivers of Song (2009). Evidently he has attained poetic maturity and, given the frequency of his output, is set to realise a fulfilled poetic career. His maturation thus far through these five volumes deserves a major critical assessment, and a possible prediction for the direction of his artistic vision.
Tanzania has been independent in 2011 for 50 years. While most neighbouring states have gone through violent conflicts, Tanzania has managed to implement extensive reforms without armed political conflicts, Hence, Tanzania is an interesting case for Peace and Development research. This dissertation analyses the political development in Tanzania since the introduction of the multiparty system in 1992, with a focus on the challenges for the democratisation process in connection with the 2000 and 2005 elections. The question of to what extent Tanzania had moved towards a consolidation of democracy, is analysed by looking at nine different institutions of importance for democratisation grouped in four spheres: the state, the political, civil and economic society. Focus is on the development of the political society, and the role of the opposition in particular. The analysis is based on secondary and primary material collected between September 2000 to April 2010. The main conclusion is that even if the institutions of liberal democracy have gradually developed, in practice single-party rule has continued, manifested in the 2005 election when the CCM won 92% of seats. Despite impressive economic growth, poverty remains deep and has not been substantially reduced. On a theoretical level this brings the old debate between liberal and substantive democracy back to the fore. Neither the economic nor the political reforms have brought about a transformation of the political and economic system resulting in the poor majority gaining substantially more political influence and improved economic conditions. Hence, it is argued that the interface between the economic, political and administrative reforms has not been sufficiently considered in the liberal democratic tradition. Liberal democracy is necessary for a democratic development, but not sufficient for democracy to be consolidated. For that a substantive democratic development is necessary.
Im Kontext des Wandels des fordistischen Wohlfahrtsstaates, hin zu einer neoliberalen Formation von Staatlichkeit, werden seit den 1980er Jahren Veränderungen der sozioökonomischen
Strukturen von Städten, wie auch innerhalb des Städtesystems, beobachtet. Das politische Argumentationsmuster der Städtekonkurrenz ist ein Resultat dieser Veränderung, wobei
es in die Verantwortungen der Städte verlagert wird, sich als Standort profilieren zu müssen, indem Aufwertungsmaßnahmen durchgeführt und städtische Potenziale ausgebaut werden
(Heeg und Rosol 2007: 492). Bob Jessop spricht in diesem Zusammenhang von einer Naturalisierung der neoliberalen Prinzipien, die auf der Ebene der Stadt zur Folge hat, dass Städte als chancengleich und damit selbstverantwortlich für ihre ökonomische Lage, d.h. für ihr Wohlergehen und die Möglichkeit attraktive Orte für Unternehmen und Bevölkerung zu sein, gesehen werden (Jessop 2002: 468). Folglich verschieben sich auch die Prioritäten der Stadtplanung,
so dass nicht mehr die Versorgung der Bevölkerung und der Abbau von sozialräumlichen Disparitäten als Ziel der Stadtplanung an erster Stelle stehen, sondern das Hauptziel
zunehmend darin besteht, die fiskalische und wirtschaftliche Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Städte selbst zu erhalten (Schneider-Sliwa 1996: 318). Um im Wettbewerb zu bestehen, gilt es eine prosperierende, attraktive Innenstadt als Aushängeschild der Stadt vorweisen zu können bzw.
herzustellen.
In Rüsselheim wird die Situation der Innenstadt, gemessen an der wirtschaftlichen Lage, momentan sehr negativ beurteilt. Auch Zeitungsartikel zeichnen ein pessimistisches Bild der
Rüsselsheimer Innenstadt1: So druckt die Frankfurter Rundschau, um ein Beispiel heraus zu greifen, eine großformatige Kollage, bestehend aus den Schaufenstern der vielen leerstehenden Ladenflächen (Frankfurter Rundschau 27/28.02.10: R24). Die Sanierung der Innenstadt befindet sich bereits seit den 1990er Jahren in der Vorbereitung. Von der Stadt in Auftrag gegebene Studien attestieren dem gesamten öffentlichen Raum eine erhebliche Beeinträchtigung seiner Funktion als Geschäftsstandort, da die städtebauliche Gestalt nicht der für den Einzelhandel erforderlichen Aufenthaltsqualität und Atmosphäre gerecht wird. Dem soll mit umfassenden Sanierungsmaßnahmen begegnet werden, die als Antwort auf den Städtewettbewerb und die Standortkonkurrenz zu verstehen sind, in denen sich die Stadt besser aufstellen möchte. Die Planungen sind, so meine These, ausgerichtet auf eine Zielgruppe, die noch nicht vor Ort ist, d.h. Maßnahmen sollen die Stadt, insbesondere die Innenstadt, für eine „gewünschte Bevölkerung― erst attraktiv machen. Die derzeitigen Nutzungen und BewohnerInnen entsprechen nicht den Vorstellungen einer repräsentablen Innenstadt, worauf mit einer Umdefinition des Stadtraumes reagiert wird, um bestimmte Nutzungen zu verdrängen. In meiner Diplomarbeit möchte ich mich mit dem Diskurs um die Innenstadtsanierung in Rüsselsheim beschäftigen. Rüsselsheim erscheint mir für dieses Vorhaben sehr interessant, da sich die Diskussionen in dem großen Widerspruch zwischen Hoffnungen und Visionen für die Planung mit dem Ziel der Herstellung einer prosperierenden Stadt und der Ohnmacht, ob der unlösbaren (finanziellen) Situation, bewegen. Zudem spielt das Verhältnis der Stadt zu Opel eine Rolle, da die Wahrnehmung der Stadt verknüpft ist mit der Wahrnehmung der Situation
des Unternehmens Opel und auch Stadtentwicklung und Unternehmensentwicklung miteinander verschränkt sind, was sich im Stadtbild wieder findet. Womöglich lässt das den Diskurs um Planungen im Bezug auf den Wandel vom Fordismus zum Postfordismus besonders deutlich zu Tage treten, da Rüsselsheim zu Zeiten des Fordismus massiv expandierte und heute in diesem Zusammenhang stehende, strukturelle Probleme zu bearbeiten hat. Diese Situation ist mitbestimmend für die Diskussion um die durchzuführenden Sanierungsmaßnahmen.
This report is an in-depth study of electoral commissions in six countries of West Africa - Benin, Cape Verde, Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone - assessing their contribution in strengthening political participation in the region. As institutions that apply the rules governing elections, electoral management bodies (EMBs) have occupied, over the last two decades, the heart of discussion and practice on the critical question of effective citizen participation in the public affairs of their countries. The way in which they are established and the effectiveness of their operations have continued to preoccupy those who advocate for competitive elections, while reforms to the EMBs have taken centre stage in more general political reforms. Election Management Bodies in West Africa thus responds to the evident need for more knowledge about an institution that occupies a more and more important place in the political process in West Africa. Based on documentary research and detailed interviews in each country, the study provides a comparative analysis which highlights the similarities and differences in the structure and operations of each body, and attempts to establish the reasons for their comparative successes and failures.
In most African countries, banana production has been consigned to subsistence production. However, a few countries, especially in Francophone West Africa, have recognised the commercial importance of banana, and have used their special relationship with France to export bananas. This has led to the dualization of the banana sector, with the traditional system existing side by side with a modern sector geared towards export trade. This book is one of the few comprehensive studies that have incorporated both the agronomic and economic aspects of banana production and marketing in Africa. It looks at all facets of banana production, from an historical perspective to the various traditional and modern technologies involved. The marketing aspect covers both the domestic and international trade, with emphasis on the preferential (ACP / DOM Lome Convention) and the open markets of the European Union. The book is a major contribution to understanding the internationalisation of the banana trade and to its ever-increasing investment portfolio, as the backbone of many a developing tropical economy. Although the emphasis is placed on Cameroon, other relevant African, tropical and subtropical banana-producing countries are mentioned where necessary, especially in the export sector where a degree of competition existed. Further, agricultural practices, soils, meteorological and climatological characteristics, pests and diseases, personnel and banana varieties grown, mean that findings in Cameroon are of relevance to other banana-producing countries, especially in Africa. Meanwhile, other African and tropical countries still contemplating entry into banana exports would benefit from the Cameroon experience. The book is of especial relevance to agronomists, entomologists, economists, farm managers, government policy makers, large, medium and small scale banana growers, and students and teachers in universities and schools of agriculture.
Conduit
(2011)
'These are poems of drowning and coming up again. Of surviving with lungs that breathe water and sunlight. These are poems of longing and loss. Of searching for a foothold in a world where all slides and changes. Sarah Frost is a new voice in South African poetry. A clear and strong and exciting voice. Read her.'- Kobus Moolman Sarah Frost is 37 years old and a single mother to a six year old boy. She works as an editor for Juta Legalbrief in Durban, South Africa. Sarah has been writing poetry for the past fourteen years. She has completed an MA in English Literature, and also a module on Creative Writing.
Innerhalb einer Stadt bildet sich durch die dichte Bebauung und den erhöhten Energieumsatz gegenüber dem Umland ein davon deutlich abweichendes "Stadtklima" aus. Dieses ist beispielsweise durch eine höhere Temperatur in der Stadt gekennzeichnet, welche zur Ausbildung der sogenannten städtischen Wärmeinsel führt. Zudem lassen regionale Klimamodelle für die nächsten Jahrzehnte Klimaänderungen erwarten, die sich in den städtischen Ballungsräumen durch die Überlagerung mit der städtischen Wärmeinsel deutlich belastender auswirken als im Umland. Dies ist für die Menschen von elementarem Interesse, da bereits heute mehr als die Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung in Städten lebt. Der Klimawandel findet bereits statt: 60-jährige Messungen des Deutschen Wetterdienstes am Flughafen Frankfurt/Main belegen einen signifikanten Anstieg des Jahresmittels der Lufttemperatur von 0,35 °C pro Dekade. Die Anzahl der mittleren jährlichen Sommertage, das sind Tage an denen die Lufttemperatur 25 °C erreicht oder überschreitet, weist ebenfalls einen signifikanten Trend von 4,3 Tagen pro Dekade auf. Wenn dieser beobachtete Trend unverändert weiterginge, so wären für die Klimaperiode 2021 - 2050 durchschnittlich etwa 21 Sommertage pro Jahr mehr als in der Klimaperiode 1971 - 2000 zu erwarten. Eine zuverlässige Abschätzung muss jedoch die erwartete Änderung klimarelevanter Spurenstoffe berücksichtigen und daher auf den verfügbaren globalen und regionalen Klimaprojektionen basieren. Ziel der Untersuchung war es deshalb, auf der Basis von Projektionen regionaler Klimamodelle die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels für detaillierte Stadtstrukturen aufzuzeigen. Mit Hilfe eines Stadtklimamodells und der am Beispiel Frankfurt/Main entwickelten sogenannten „Quadermethode“ (Früh et al., 2011) konnte erstmals sowohl die vergangene als auch die zukünftige Wärmebelastung für Frankfurt am Main unter Berücksichtigung der vielfältigen Bebauungsstrukturen und sonstiger Flächennutzungen simuliert werden. Auch die klimatischen Auswirkungen der größeren Planungsvorhaben der Stadt wurden in diesem Zusammenhang untersucht. Auf der Grundlage des moderaten IPCC Emissionsszenarios A1B ergibt sich für das Stadtgebiet von Frankfurt bis zum Jahr 2050 eine Zunahme der mittleren jährlichen Anzahl von Sommertagen von derzeit etwa 44 Tagen pro Jahr, um weitere 5 bis 31 Tage. Damit wird Mitte des Jahrhunderts im Sommerhalbjahr jeder zweite bis vierte Tag in Frankfurt wärmer als 25 °C sein. Gleichzeitig wird auch die mittlere jährliche Anzahl "Sommerabende", das sind Abende an denen es um 22 Uhr noch mindestens 20 °C warm ist, um 5 bis 33 Tage ansteigen. Auch die Anzahl der "heißen Tage" mit einer Höchsttemperatur von mindestens 30 °C und der Tropennächte mit Lufttemperaturen, die nicht unter 20 °C sinken, wird deutlich zunehmen. Aufgrund der heute noch geringen Anzahl solcher Tage lassen sich für die Zukunft derzeit keine verlässlichen Aussagen treffen. Dies gilt auch für alle Untersuchungen, die für die Klimaperiode 2071 - 2100 durchgeführt wurden. Die Studie zeigt, dass die Zunahme der Sommertage bis Mitte des Jahrhunderts sich nicht signifikant zwischen dicht und locker bebauten Stadtteilen unterscheidet. Die Wärmebelastung wird also gleichermaßen stark zunehmen und zukünftig auch dort am höchsten sein wo sie es heute schon ist. Die Unterschiede zwischen Stadt und Umland werden sich aber nicht wie befürchtet verschärfen. Aber die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass Hitzesommer – wie beispielsweise im Jahr 2003 – häufiger auftreten werden, nimmt bis Mitte des Jahrhunderts zu. Betrachtet man unterschiedliche Bebauungsstrukturen in Frankfurt, so belegen die Modellergebnisse zusätzlich, dass in dicht bebauten Gebieten, wie zum Beispiel der Innenstadt, die Wärmebelastung mit bis zu 54 Sommertagen pro Jahr bereits heute am stärksten ist. Hochhäuser, wie im Frankfurter Bankenviertel, können den Effekt dichter Bebauung zwar durch ihre abschattende Wirkung zumindest tagsüber etwas mildern. Da allerdings der Effekt der nächtlichen Wärmeinsel durch die Hochhäuser verstärkt wird, ist keineswegs als Anpassungsmaßnahme auf den Hochhausbau zu setzen. Neben den Auswirkungen der regionalen Klimaänderungen auf die Stadt werden auch die Auswirkungen bereits geplanter Veränderungen der Stadt untersucht. Dabei kann gezeigt werden, dass eine Umwandlung von bebauten Flächen in Grünflächen die durch den Klimawandel erwartete Zunahme an Sommertagen und -abenden etwa halbieren würde. Umgekehrt kann eine Verdichtung der Bebauung die erwartete Zunahme an Sommertagen und -abenden nahezu verdoppeln. Die Auswirkungen solcher Maßnahmen werden aber lokal sehr begrenzt sein. Um der erwarteten regionalen Klimaerwärmung im gesamten Stadtgebiet gegenzusteuern ist daher eine klimagünstige Gestaltung der Stadt in möglichst vielen Stadtbereichen notwendig. Parks und Grünanlagen nehmen unter zukünftigen Klimabedingungen somit in ihrer Bedeutung stark zu.
Difficult Gifts
(2011)
Cultural memory and narrative theology are well-known hallmarks of postmodern constructivist thought. The author's research into a century of Anglican history in the Mount Kenya region has helped to establish the little known village of Mutira on the world map of the history of Christianity in Africa. This book, a composition of African biographies and mission history, chronicles how the Anglican Church has carried out its work in Mutira area in the past 100 years.
Broken Promises
(2011)
Ntombi's mom is out all the time with a new man, Zakes, leaving Ntombi to lookafter her little sister Zinzi. So Ntombi is missing practices for SA's 'Teen Voice' competition and the auditions are getting closer. Besides, Ntombi's keen to have her own fun, especially once she gets the attention of Mzi, one of Harmony High's hottest boys. But, what secrets are Zakes and Mzi hiding? How many promises will be broken before Ntombi finds out the truth?
Sugar Daddy
(2011)
Busi feels left out! Her friends have won a talent competition, but the only talent that she has is for being late for school! When she climbs out of a broken window at Harmony High and escapes onto the street her life is about to change. The smooth, handsome taxi driver, Parks, stops to pick her up and there is no going back. But, Busi soon finds herself out of her depth and realises that Parks has a secret he isn't sharing.
Kerry Hammerton is a poet, writer and alternative health practitioner. She is a graduate of The University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and The College of Integrated Chinese Medicine (Reading, UK). Her poetry has been published in South African literary journals such as Carapace, New Contrast and New Coin, online at Litnet and Incwadi. She has also been a contributor to The Empty Tin Readings (May 2010) and The Poetry Project. These are the lies I told you is her fi rst poetry collection. Kerry has fewer wrinkles than she should have at her age - or so her friends tell her.
Hermann Hoffmann (1819-1891) gilt als Pionier der Arealkunde und der Floristischen Kartierung auf Basis von Rasterfeldern. Seine "Nachträge zur Flora des Mittelrhein-Gebietes" erschienen in acht Folgen von 1879 bis 1889 und enthalten "bezifferte Täfelchen" (Erläuterung bei HOFFMANN 1879: 4), welche Vorläufer der heute üblichen Raster-Verbreitungskarten darstellen. Das von Hoffmann bearbeitete "Mittelrhein-Gebiet" umfasst einen quadratischen Ausschnitt Deutschlands, zu dem ein großer Teil des heutigen Bundeslandes Hessen sowie Teile angrenzender Bundesländer gehören (Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Baden-Württemberg und Bayern, zudem in geringem Maße Saarland). Hoffmann unterteilte das Gebiet in 7 x 7 gleich große Rasterfelder, die jeweils einer Fläche von ungefähr 25 x 25 km entsprechen. Die "Nachträge" enthalten für etwa 580 Sippen Raster- Verbreitungskarten. Die erste Folge enthält nach einer Einleitung auch ein Ortsverzeichnis (S. 18-21) sowie ein "Systematisches Verzeichniß der aufgenommenen Arten" (S. 21-27). Die letzte Folge enthält ein "Schriften-Verzeichniß zur Flora des Mittelrhein-Gebietes (S. 23-32). Die Digitalisierung der entsprechenden Bände der Berichte der Oberhessischen Gesellschaft erfolgte im Rahmen des Projektes Biodiversity Heritage Library. Für das vorliegende Konvolut wurden die entsprechenden Bände heruntergeladen, die einzelnen Folgen der "Nachträge" wurden herausgeschnitten und zu einer einzigen PDF-Datei vereinigt.
Through her Letters written to Friends, to her opponents: priests, magistrates, politicians, including the king, Elizabeth Hooton leaves a captivating testimony of her fights for and of her activism in quest of the Truth, Freedom, Justice and equity for all as well as peace on earth and within the Quaker movement. Hers was a fight and quest far from any guided by egoism pure and simple or by personal interest. She was driven by her interest in the common good of all and everywhere. In History of civilizations we have actors who fade away unnoticed or at times are just ignored whereas their contributions to the said civilizations as small as they might be have contributed tremendously in shaping without doubt the same civilizations. Elizabeth Hooton falls within this category of people whose contribution to contemporary English civilization and above all to the feminist movement can be read between the lines of the fragments of these letters; she wrote to her Friends and to the political leaders of England during an era of great changes which radically transformed the English society i.e. 17th Century England. She expresses herself in very caustic terms as a way of affirming the rights to equality of the oppressed woman and other marginals of the society of her time. She anchors her fight on the axis of a universal and Universalist quest for equality, a Quaker ideal.
The Last Hope
(2011)
This play was written as part of an evaluation of Africa's oldest and most diverse rainforest conservation initiative in the Korup area, with the aim of highlighting and sharing some lessons learnt from the creation of the Korup National Park, through a period of full activity, to when activities were considerably reduced. It is a fine blend of the results of the evaluation and some carefully developed fictional, artistic materials for the achievement of an overall dramatic effect. Ekpe Inyang gives an informed artistic touch to achieve dramatic effects, succinctly relating the story of Cameroon's first rainforest national park, Korup.
Silent Voices
(2011)
This collection of poems spans a wide range of themes and subjects, including culture, politics, socio-economics, environment, and human rights. The poems are a reflection of Ekpe Inyang's close contact with and passionate observation of society, as well as his generous sharing of life experiences and personal philosophy. Ekpe's poetic journey started in 1992, and some of the poems in this collection have been published in national and internal newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and journals.
Non-Europhone Intellectuals
(2011)
The history of Arabic writing spans a period of eight hundred years in sub-Saharan Africa. Hundreds of thousands of manuscripts in Arabic or Ajami (African languages written with the Arabic script) are preserved in public libraries and private collections in sub-Saharan Africa. This 'Islamic Library' includes historical, devotional, pedagogical, polemical and political writings, most of which have not yet been adequately studied. This book, Non-Europhone Intellectuals, studies the research carried out on the Islamic library and shows that Muslim intellectuals, in West Africa in particular, have produced huge literature in Arabic and Ajami. It is impossible to reconstitute this library completely. As the texts have existed for centuries and are mostly in the form of unpublished manuscripts, only some of them have been transmitted to us while others have perished because of poor conservation. Efforts toward collecting them continues and the documents collected thus far attest to an intense intellectual life and important debates on society that have been completely ignored by the overwhelming majority of Europhone intellectuals. During European colonial rule and after the independence of African nations, Islamic education experienced some neglect, but the Islamic scholarly tradition did not decline. On the contrary, it has prospered with the proliferation of modern Islamic schools and the rise of dozens of Islamic institutions of higher learning. In recent years, the field of Islamic studies in West Africa has continued to attract the attention of erudite scholars, notably in anthropology and history, who are investing in learning the languages and working on this Islamic archive. As more analytical works are done on this archive, there will be continued modification in terms of the debate on knowledge production in West Africa.
Caprivi, the remote and narrow Namibian strip of land encapsulated by neighbouring Angola, Zambia and Botswana, has a contested colonial and postcolonial history. Bennett Kangumu traces the politics of its people in this complex borderlands since the late 19th century. Neglected by German and South African colonial administrations, its inhabitants were often pushed towards neighbouring territories though not being an integral part of them. At the same time, South African apartheid and homeland politics emphasised the ethnization of local identities. Becoming a strategic location in the ensuing liberation wars of the late 20th century, its history is often one of conquest and resistance, plunder, betrayal and rivalry. Kangumu shows how the inhabitants of Caprivi responded in various ways, notably in the form of regional nationalism when the Caprivi African National Union (CANU) was formed in the early 1960s. The Union?s merger with the dominant Namibian liberation movement, SWAPO, was a claim to end seperation and isolation, which, however, flarred up again in post-colonial Namibia.
Neoliberalism has become the dominant development agenda in Africa. Faced with a deep economic and political crisis, African governments have been compelled by powerful external agencies, in particular the Bretton Woods institutions and western states, to pursue this agenda as a necessary precondition for the receipt of development aid. What is particularly striking in Africa, however, is that neoliberal experiments there have displayed such remarkable diversity. This may be due not only to substantial differences in historical, economic and political trajectories on the African continent but also, and maybe more importantly, in the degree of resistance internal actors have demonstrated to the neoliberal reforms imposed on them. This book focuses on Cameroon which has had a complex economic and political history and is currently witnessing resistance to the neoliberal experiment by the authoritarian and neopatrimonial state elite and various civil-society groups. It is the culmination of over twenty years of fine and refined research by one of the leading scholars of Cameroon today.
Prison-reformation has been a controversial and politically charged issue in Kenya. In the past it has elicited such legendary and emotional responses as 'What reforms? Prisons are not supposed to be five star hotels!' Recently, however, there has been a greater consensus between the public sector and the civic society in Kenya - than has ever in the past - of the need to revisit the human rights of inmates in various Kenyan prisons. Since 2003 a number of ground breaking reforms have been introduced in Kenyan prisons and more reforms seem to be on the way. Jacqueline Korir in this book takes a serious and despassionate look into a single variable: the quality of catering in Kenyan prisons. Her findings were both shocking and challenging. The food was lacking in both nutritive value as well aesthetic appeal. The site of food samples was only reminiscent of a grotesque meaning of the famous Council in Church History - The Diet of Worms! This book, grounded, in empirical data analysis by hard statistics and backed by rare photographs from inside Kenyan prisons serves as an eye-opener to both the prison-reformists as well as students and teachers of African sociology and institutional catering all over the world.
Bi Tirga
(2011)
Leonard Bi Tirga, son of a poor peasant, is a studious pupil. Due to shortage of finances, he has to leave school to make ends meet and pursue his studies. Leonard becomes a sweatshop labourer. As a young labourer, his life like that of his peers is hard. The pay rate is low and the work is hard. With his friends, they engage in trade union activism. A series of complicated and trying events reinforces their conviction to militate. Thus, Leonard and his friend Camille become Union leaders. Leonard's character trait and uprightness explains the book title, Bi Tirga. In the Moore language, this means a well educated, honest, hardworking, courageous and well-behaved youth.
This detailed, meticulous ethnographic study on mobile phone use among Nuba students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, distinguishes itself from other studies by taking a focused look at the linguistic content of mobile phone interactions via text-messaging, portraying it as a site for the expression of personalized and affective language. While men and women appear to be equally aggressive consumers and producers of text-message poetry, women are formally discouraged in using the phone for relations that go beyond the publicly acceptable norms of 'keeping in touch' and making arrangements. Nonetheless, women use it for such purposes and many manage it discreetly, showing how this technology can serve to subvert discursive norms on gender and marriage. The mobile phone in Sudan enhances individual autonomy over interactions, making possible the extension and creation of social spaces. It simultaneously enlarges private space and trespasses into public space. Poetic themes and language, previously limited to elite producers - those both more literate and who had control over mass media domains, radio and newspapers - are exposed to anonymous recipients, who draw from, copy or forward them in continuous circulation, thereby staking a claim in the public sphere. Similarly, the mobile phone serves as a site for the exercise of several layers of identity in negotiation, and reflects or creates alternative identities and the contestation of existing discourses, communities in physical space and notions of belonging.