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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.
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.
Contents:
Yuki Chiba, Santiago Escobar, Naoki Nishida, and David Sabel, and Manfred Schmidt-Schauß : Preface:
The Collection of all Abstracts of the Talks at WPTE 2015 xi
Brigitte Pientka : Mechanizing Meta-Theory in Beluga
Giulio Guerrieri : Head reduction and normalization in a call-by-value lambda-calculus
Adrián Palacios and Germán Vidal : Towards Modelling Actor-Based Concurrency in Term Rewriting
David Sabel and Manfred Schmidt-Schauß : Observing Success in the Pi-Calculus
Sjaak Smetsers, Ken Madlener, and Marko van Eekelen : Formalizing Bialgebraic Semantics in PVS 6.0
Contributions collected here discuss the experiences of the citizens of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe, and suggest some answers to the challenges they face. Each of the authors presents studies that carefully examine the situation and the political, social and economic context suggest that the progress made in recent decades in women's rights and empowerment, democratic governance, Human rights, access to employment, education and health, are still very modest on the long journey our countries must make to win the welfare of citizens. Therefore imperative that dynamic and competent social movements favour process processes and more effective and sustainable development.
In twenty-five chapters this book covers phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. The chapters are organized in four discrete parts: phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. They are uneven in terms of scope covered, length, the density of their contents and their degrees of difficulty. Each chapter ends with ?Some References? relevant to both the topic(s) treated in the chapter, in Igbo linguistics, and in general linguistics.
A la tète du client is a vitriolic indictment of the unsettling myths and stereotypes surrounding the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Cameroon. It problematizes and lampoons the unethical practices of medical personnel that have made this disease an intractable ailment in Cameroon and beyond. The English translation of A la tète du client titled Fly over the Crooks' Crooked Nest denounces and scourges the predatory behaviour of the wicked who take advantage of the weakest in a context of HIV/AIDs. When two rascals decide to open their own laboratory for medical analysis, without any skills or equipment, the least harmful results amount to 'Obama... blood type O, Axelrod...blood type A...'
A Pebble In The River
(2015)
Akli is an old man now. He is in prison. It is from there that he begins telling his story of the colonisation of Northern Africa. Of his village especially, Thadarth. It is a narrative of revolution, war, torture, dispossession, corruption, intolerance, betrayal, terrorism, religious extremism but, above all, resistance. A narrative of inevitability and loss. The loss of faith in a higher power. The loss of those closest to him, which he would endlessly try, in vain, to prevent since his adolescence. He would forever carry the burden of their death and absence, the regret of not having been able to protect them, to be with them. This forged him into a cynic, a man without hope for a better future, a man who wishes for death every day that passes. But his is also a story of love. Unconditional. Pure love. The ineffable kind which he has for his country, his land, the mountains, his family, his friends, his people. A story of his life's first love, Martine, daughter to the French settler, Fino, who left him with a lot of frustrations but also good remembrances. If his story begins in gloom, it is one through which secretly, intimately and ultimately runs the thread of hope. Hope because he is released from prison at the time of the narration. Hope that his daughter, Zira, the fruit of the rape of his wife by terrorists, brings back into his life. It is a story about the persistence of beauty, of good and goodness, even in the face of chaos. It is a story about truth. His truth. Eternal even when obscured. No man can be broken badly enough to not feel love, to not see and enjoy beauty. No man can tear the world apart so much that love and beauty no longer exist. Once this truth is accepted, however chaotic or scary the outside world can be, peace can be found. Peace within one's own being. Peace which Akli finds too.
Adorno und die Kabbala
(2015)
Im neunten Band der Reihe geht Ansgar Martins kabbalistischen Spuren in der Philosophie Theodor W. Adornos (1903–1969) nach. Der Frankfurter Gesellschaftskritiker griff im Rahmen seines radikalen materialistischen Projekts gleichwohl auch auf "theologische" Deutungsfiguren zurück. Vermittelt durch den gemeinsamen Freund Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) stieß Adorno dabei auf das Werk des Kabbala-Forschers Gershom Scholem (1897–1982). Zwischen Frankfurt und Jerusalem entwickelte sich eine lebenslange Korrespondenz.
Für Adorno erscheint vor dem Hintergrund lückenloser kapitalistischer Vergesellschaftung jede religiöse Sinngebung in der Moderne als unmöglich. Der Tradition der jüdischen Mystik schreibt er hingegen eine innere Affinität zu dieser hoffnungslosen Logik des "Verfalls" zu. Sie scheint ihm zur unumgänglichen Säkularisierung religiöser Gehalte aufzufordern. Adornos kabbalistische Marginalien beziehen einen breiten Horizont jüdisch-messianischer Ideen ein. Er verleugnet dabei nie, dass es ihm um eine sehr diesseite Verwirklichung geoffenbarter Heilsversprechen zu tun ist: Transzendenz sei als erfüllte Immanenz, als verwirklichte Utopie zu denken. In diesem Anliegen sieht Adorno selbst jedoch gerade seine Übereinstimmung mit der Kabbala.
Adornos kabbalistische Motive, die auf Scholems Forschungen zurückgehen, werden hier ausführlich an seinen Schriften und Vorlesungen untersucht. In seinem Verständnis der philosophischen Tradition sowie im Modell der Metaphysischen Erfahrung suchte er etwa explizit Anschluss an Deutungen der Kabbala: Das unerreichbare Urbild der Philosophie sei die Interpretation der geoffenbarten Schrift. Wie säkularisierte heilige Texte wurden Werke von Beethoven, Goethe, Kafka oder Schönberg so zum Anlass für "mystische" Interpretationen. Deren detaillierte Untersuchung erlaubt, das viel beschworene jüdische Erbe von Adornos Philosophie zu konkretisieren und bedenkenswerte Einzelheiten von der Negativen Dialektik zur Ästhetik in den Blick zu nehmen.
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, CODESRIA, held its 13th General Assembly, 5-9 December 2011, in Rabat Morocco. The theme of the scientific conference was: 'Africa and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century'. Some of the reasons that influenced the choice of this theme were to do with how Africa should position itself in the new global political and economic order in the context of an increasingly complex neoliberal globalisation. Changes in intercultural relations at the global level, climate change, poverty, rapid urbanisation, the ICTs revolution, the emergence of a multi-polar world and the phenomenon of emerging powers of the South are some of the realities of our world that are widely and extensively discussed by both academics and policy-makers. This book contains the statutory lectures of the 13th General Assembly. Each one speaks to major challenges that African and the Global South are facing in this second decade of the Twenty-first Century: neoliberal globalisation, capital flight, the land question, gender relations, with a particular focus on matriarchy; and universalism.
Although a great deal of attention is focused on Africa's economic failures and political instability, a factual compendium such as this, the 16th edition of Africa at a Glance, serves as a reminder of the many positive achievements which need to be appreciated. This compilation has been issued since 1968. It has been prepared to fulfill the need for an up-to-date and concise compendium of published but not readily accessible data on the countries of Africa. Every effort has been made to provide the most current as well as authoritative information. Apart from presenting the latest available data, new tables, maps and diagrams have been added. Attention may be drawn particularly to the inclusion of new tables in Section Two: Poverty and Selected Risk Indicators. While the raison d'ètre of the Africa Institute of South African is the conducting and dissemination of scholarly research, it is also concerned with the collection and dissemination of statistical and other factual data about the African continent. The present issue of Africa at a Glance serves the latter purpose.
The volume contains abstracts of papers presented at the 12th Conference of Africanists organized by the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in May 2011. The Conference, held triennially since 1969 is a major event in the area of African studies in Russia and beyond. What is particularly remarkable is the number and the diversity of the participants: academics, diplomats, Moscow-based and provincial as well as foreign participants from a staggering number of countries: Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Cote d'Ivoire, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Nigeria, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, UAE, UK, USA, Zimbabwe. Subjects covered range from economics, foreign relations, security issues, administration to history, culture, linguistics and religious studies. The book is a good reference tool to today's problematics in African studies as it presents a cross-section of this vast and diverse field. The Conference, held triennially since 1969 is a major event in the area of African studies in Russia and beyond. What is particularly remarkable is the number and the diversity of the participants: academics, diplomats, Moscow-based and provincial as well as foreign participants from a staggering number of countries: Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Cote d'Ivoire, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Nigeria, Poland, Spain, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, UAE, UK, USA, Zimbabwe. Subjects covered range from economics, foreign relations, security issues, administration to history, culture, linguistics and religious studies. The book is a good reference tool to today's problematics in African studies as it presents a cross-section of this vast and diverse field.
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.
Despite all the talk about African renaissance, much of the continent is plagued by poverty and instability. To break out of that cycle, the guardians of African heritage (the old independence freedom fighters turned political leaders and their successors) and much of Afrocentric literature rightly promote African ideas and solutions for African problems. While the idea in itself is noble, the danger is for Africa to close itself off and ignore 'outside' technical and intellectual innovations that it desperately needs to advance further. Africa through Structuration Theory - ntu joins the discourse by attempting to restore intellectual freedom and convincingly defends structuration theory not only as the way forward for Africa but also as a legitimate African concept. It is innovative, refreshing and deserves to be heard across the world and appreciated especially by African graduates, current and future leaders of various African institutions or businesses, non-Africans who might hesitate to refer to such a theory when trying to understand and deal with African problems and the wider public who constitute the audience for this book.
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.
Many African countries achieved independence from their colonisers over five decades ago, but the people and the continent largely remain mere spectators in the arena of their own dance. The post-independence states are supposed to be sovereign, but the levers of economic and political powers still reside in the donor states. Not in many fora is the complex reality that defines Africa more trenchantly articulated than in imaginative literature produced about and on the continent. This is the crux of the essays collected in African Literature and the Future. The book reflects on Africa's past and present, addressing anxieties about the future through the epistemological lens of literature. The contributors peep ahead from a backward glance. They dissect the trend and tenor of politics and their impact on the socio-cultural and economic development of the continent as portrayed in imaginative writings over the years. One salient feature of African literature is the close affinity between art and politics in its polemics. This is well established in all the six essays in the book as the authors stress the interconnections between literature and society in their textual analyses. On the whole, there is an overwhelming feeling of angst and pessimism, but the authors perceive a glimmer of hope despite daunting odds, under different conditions. Thus, they depict the plausible fate of Africa in the twenty-first century, as informed by its ancient and recent past, gleaned from primary texts.
African Modernities and Mobilities : An Historical Ethnography of Kom, Cameroon, C. 1800-2008
(2015)
In this book Walter Gam Nkwi documents the complexities and nuances embedded in African modernities and mobilities which have been overlooked in historical discourses in Africa and Cameroon. Using an ethnographic historical approach and drawing on the intricacies of what it has meant to be and belong in Kom- an ethnic community in the Northwest Region of Cameroon - since 1800, he explores the discourses and practices of kfaang as central to any understanding of mobility and modernity in Kom, Cameroon and Africa at large. The book unveils the emic understanding of modernity through the history and ethnography of kfaang and its technologies and illustrates how these terminologies were conceived and perceived by the Kom people in their social and physical mobilities. It documents and analyzes the historical processes involved in bringing about and making kfaang a defining feature of everyday life in Kom and among Kom subjects.
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.
African Short Stories: Vol 2
(2015)
Bequeathing an enduring tenet for the creative enterprise, African Short Stories vol 2 boldly seeks to upturn the status quo by the art of narration. Whether they are stories of the whistle blower estranged and yet sounding the warning for heaven and earth to hear, or a ragtag army fleeing in the wake of a monstrous reptilian onslaught upon her peace, there pervades a sense of ultimate victory in this collection. We can feel the gentle kick of a baby in the womb of a maiden in desperation, or we can muse at the two adolescent genii on the trail of their dreams from the sunset of mutual deceit into the daylight of true becoming. Victory is laid out in that awesome kindness of a total stranger which affirms the divinity latent in even our most harrowing existence. With thirty five stories in two parts these literary experiments compel attention to the courageous hearts and minds that brighten the African universe of narration. Their vibrant notes coming from all corners of north, west, east and south fill us with encouragement and optimism for the contemporary short fiction in Africa.
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.
El libro pretende brindar un recorrido inicial a través de la fauna de arañas de la Argentina. Está organizado en veintiún capítulos. En el primero de ellos se presentan características generales de las arañas. Cada uno de los capítulos siguientes corresponde a una familia distinta. Se exponen aspectos morfológicos, fisiológicos y etológicos, entre otros. Las arañas de interés sanitario presentes en el país se encuentran incluidas. El libro cuenta con más de 120 fotografías, todas fueron realizadas por el autor, y hasta ahora no habían sido publicadas. La obra está dirigida a todos los que se interesan por el mundo de las arañas, en particular a estudiantes y profesionales de ciencias biológicas, médicas y afines.
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.
Die Mathematik ist gleichermaßen eine Kulturwissenschaft mit langer Tradition als auch treibende Kraft hinter vielen modernen Technologien und damit Schlüsseldisziplin des Informationszeitalters. Zum einen zielt die Mathematik darauf ab, abstrakte Strukturen und ihre Zusammenhänge zu verstehen; zum anderen entwickelt sie kraftvolle Methoden, um Frage- und Problemstellungen in zahlreichen Wissenschaftsdisziplinen zu behandeln. Moderne Anwendungen der Mathematik liegen beispielsweise in den Bereichen der Datensicherheit und -kompression, der Verkehrssteuerung, der Bewertung und Optimierung von Finanzinstrumenten oder der medizinischen Operationsplanung.
In dieser Broschüre stellen wir Ihnen das Profil der Frankfurter Mathematik in Forschung und Lehre sowie speziell die Studiengänge
• Bachelor Mathematik
• Master Mathematik
vor. An der Goethe-Universität ist es auch möglich, Mathematik auf Lehramt (L1, L2, L3, L5) zu studieren. ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Over the past years, few African countries have been the focus of discussions and analyses generating a vast array of literature as much as Zimbabwe. The socioeconomic and political crises since the turn of the century have deeply transformed the country from the ideals of a vibrant freshly independent nation just two decades earlier. These transformations have necessitated the call for the restructuring of Zimbabwean society, polity, and economy. But this literature remains exclusively within the realm of academic thinking and theorising, with no concerted effort to move beyond this by explicitly drawing out the policy implications. Beyond the Crises: Zimbabwe's Prospects for Transformation is a welcome addition to the academic and policy literature with a much broader and all-embracing focus in terms of policy interventions. By focusing on different aspects of social and economic justice, Murisa and Chikweche go beyond initiating a broad discussion on these two key pillars of human development with a view to suggesting possible future directions of practical solutions and policy development for the attainment of inclusive social and economic justice for Zimbabweans.
BILAKHULU! : Longer Poems
(2015)
VONANI BILA was born in 1972 in Shirley village, Limpopo, where he still lives. He is the author of five books of poems in English and eight story-books for newly literate adult readers in Sepedi, Xitsonga and English. Bila is a driving force in South African poetry - founding editor of the Timbila poetry journal, publisher of Timbila books and founder of Timbila Writers' Village, a rural retreat centre for writers. Married with three children, he teaches in the Department of English Studies at the University of Limpopo, and in the MA in Creative Writing at Rhodes University.
Bites of Insanity
(2015)
In this collection of poems Nsah Mala casts a critical compassionate gaze at the predicaments in the lives of present day Cameroonians. The poet lambasts power abuse in Cameroon and Africa. He decries the lost glory of traditional values sacrificed at the altar of ingratiation and materialism. Insalubrities are condemned, ignorance and its ramifications satirised, and wanton destruction of the environment indicted. With a fascinating richness of imagery, Mala conveys the disillusionment, bitterness and traumas of ordinary Cameroonians - young and old - debased with impunity by the lethal and sterile grip on power of the high and might. The moral depravity and human frailties mused about in this exceptionally compelling collection have no room in Mala's paradise of Cameroon.
Blot On The Landscape
(2015)
Born with Voice
(2015)
Born with Voice examines the psyche and scrape of the victims of various crimes, especially sexual discrimination-cum-exploitation, rape, and the killing of people with albinism. The author digs deeper into the hearts and minds, and plights of victims to inspire the society to stand with, and support them. The book offers some nuggets such as, understanding the phenomenon, confronting it and stopping wars that cause sufferings such as rape and death. It champions the urgency of voice for all and sundry. It challenges the industries of technologies of crime and violence to rise above selfish self-interest in the interest of human rights and voicing the voiceless victims of their greed.
Boundaries
(2015)
In Boundaries, Musang, from the Grassfields, falls in love with Etonde from the Coast. Although aware of some existing tension and unfounded mistrust between both camps, the couple is ready to marry when Etonde's father, incredibly, rejects the marriage proposal at the last minute. Although traumatized, Musang, finally, deems the rejection a sign from heaven and so reconsiders a lingering vocation idea - the priesthood. Meanwhile, a devastated Etonde, now defiant of men, struggles on to regain her equilibrium. Years after, however, and barely months away from his ordination into the priesthood, Musang, an exemplary postulant, is suddenly given the deprecating choice to go on probation or leave the seminary; he leaves.
The study demonstrates that informal cross-border is a complex phenomenon and not uniform across the region, or even through border posts of the same country. However, the overall volume of trade, duties paid and VAT foregone, as well as the types of goods and where they are produced, indicate that this sector of regional trade should be given much greater attention and support by governments of the region as well as regional organizations such as the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), SADC and the Southern African Customs Union (SACU).
Call it a difficult night
(2015)
I was grateful for the death sentence the doctors gave me. It meant no more words, no more summons ringing out in hallucinations and fevers, an end neat as the edge of the world, where the sun drops into the sea. I walked through the world saying goodbye with a clean heart. They hollowed my bones for flight. My life moves in me there, urgent as air. There is language that comes up spare and bright as bone from a break. It stands beneath us like rock in the place where there is nothing else left. It is the language of nothing more.
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.
Chinua Achebe's novels and essays have always drawn our attention to issues of memory, the story, history and our own obligation to history as Africans. Achebe constantly goes back to the authority of narrative - the story; and as the subsequent generations of African writers like Chimamanda Adichie keep returning to, to celebrate Africa's many stories, its moments of failure and triumph. Achebe, more than any other writer on this continent, has inspired many, and hopefully the African story tellers of the coming centuries, irrespective of their location will continue to be inspired by him. This collection of essays is an enduring tribute to this rich legacy of Achebe.
Few African countries provide for an explicit right to a nationality. Laws and practices governing citizenship effectively leave hundreds of thousands of people in Africa without a country. These stateless Africans can neither vote nor stand for office; they cannot enrol their children in school, travel freely, or own property; they cannot work for the government; they are exposed to human rights abuses. Statelessness exacerbates and underlies tensions in many regions of the continent. Citizenship Law in Africa, a comparative study by two programs of the Open Society Foundations, describes the often arbitrary, discriminatory, and contradictory citizenship laws that exist from state to state and recommends ways that African countries can bring their citizenship laws in line with international rights norms. The report covers topics such as citizenship by descent, citizenship by naturalisation, gender discrimination in citizenship law, dual citizenship, and the right to identity documents and passports. It is essential reading for policymakers, attorneys, and activists. This third edition is a comprehensive revision of the original text, which is also updated to reflect developments at national and continental levels. The original tables presenting comparative analysis of all the continent's nationality laws have been improved, and new tables added on additional aspects of the law. Since the second edition was published in 2010, South Sudan has become independent and adopted its own nationality law, while there have been revisions to the laws in Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, Seychelles, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia and Zimbabwe. The African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child have developed important new normative guidance.
Coffee Time
(2015)
In Coffee Time, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui uses her childhood experiences in a rural coffee farm to show the struggles that farmers go through to earn a living. They linger in poverty as intermediaries along the coffee value chain rake huge profits. It is a story of trade injustice in an asymmetrical world.
Das Phänomen des Primitivismus in Kunst, Musik und Literatur der Moderne ist ein Arbeitsfeld, das für die Komparatistik besonders ergiebig zu sein verspricht, von ihr bislang aber nur in Ansätzen erforscht wurde. Im Primitivismus bündelt sich eine Vielzahl von Problemkomplexen, die eine vergleichende Vorgehensweise geradezu unabdingbar macht, sei dies auf dem Feld der interkulturellen Hermeneutik, der Wissensgeschichte oder der Intermedialitätsforschung. Die Arbeitshypothese des vorliegenden Bandes: Intermedialität stellt für den modernen Primitivismus ein konstitutives und bestimmendes Moment dar. Unter dieser Prämisse untersuchen die Beiträge, wie sich zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts ein europäischer Diskurs des Primitivismus im Wechselspiel verschiedener künstlerischer und technischer Medien (Malerei, Plastik, Literatur, Musik, Theater, Film, Photographie) herausgebildet hat.
Colonial Heritage, Memory and Sustainability in Africa : Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects
(2015)
This book serves as a drive and medium for constructive analysis, critical thinking, and informed change in the broad area of cultural heritage studies. In Africa, how to overturn the gory effects and reverse the wholesale obnoxious and unpardonable losses suffered from the excruciating experience of colonialism in a manner that empowers the present and future generations, remains a burning question. Colonial and liberation war heritage have received insignificant attention. The relevance, nature, and politics at play when it comes to the role of memory and colonial heritage in view of nation-building and sustainability on the continent is yet to receive careful practical and theoretical attention and scrutiny from both heritage scholars and governments. Yet, colonial heritage has vast potentials that if harnessed could reverse the gargantuan losses of colonialism and promote sustainable development in Africa. The book critically reflects on the opportunities, constraints, and challenges of colonial heritage across Africa. It draws empirical evidence from its focus on Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, and Mozambique, to advance the thesis that cultural heritage in Africa, and in particular colonial heritage, faces challenges of epic proportions that require urgent attention.
This is a commemorative volume devoted to the late Professor Willfried F. Feuser, a literary icon and a comparatist of no mean repute. Though German by origin, Professor Feuser showed great concern to the Africanist agenda of self-realisation, and therefore devoted the greatest part of his productive academic life to the cultural revival and socio-economic emancipation of Africa and the Diaspora through his scholarly publications. This book contains 20 essays on a wide range of issues in literary criticism.
The volume constitutes Klaus Fiedler's crowning contribution to scholarship. Essays in the first half of the book focus on Malawian Christianity and how contrasting Powers, Gospel and Secular, engage each other, creating social, political and cultural conflict in the process. In the second half, Fiedler examines general missiological themes. These essays provide a broader missiological background, offering a theoretical framework necessary for appreciating the essays in the first half. He concludes with a chapter that reviews selected seminal books on themes under study. Throughout the volume Fiedler applies the 'restorationist revival theory' he constructed in The Story of Faith Missions, an earlier 1994 work putting emphasis on non classical missions and churches, not systematically covered in earlier scholarship. This volume, the first of its kind on Malawian Christianity, will long remain an indispensable text for those interested in Missiology and Malawian Christianity.
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.
This is a comprehensive, insightful, lucid, intense and unrivalled text on the general part of the criminal law in Cameroon. Beginning with an account of the historical development of the criminal law generally, the author proceeds to analyse and discuss in detail the principles governing application of the criminal law, criminal responsibility, participation in crime, penalties, and sentencing. These principles are broadly the same in other jurisdictions. The book balances theoretical content with case-law illustrations to enhance readability, comprehension and assimilation. It is an invaluable source and essential reading for law students and teachers, and lawyers in private practice and government service.