Brian Ramadiro and Kimberley Porteus of the Nelson Mandela Institute for Rural Development and Education analyse the relationship between the university and rural development in an African setting before exploring other pedagogical possibilities to better orient University engagement with the requirements of rural educators. [Full Text Article, pdf]
African Youth
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The University and Sustainable Rural Development
Pre-School Child Multilingualism and its Educational Implications in the African Context
H. Ekkehard Wolff focuses on individual multilingualism and its implications for institutional language planning in education considering sociolinguistics aspects and psycholinguistic issues of language acquisition and language learning. [Full Text Article, pdf]
Beyond The Fad To Poetry For Social Change
By Mphutlane Wa Bofelo (2006-11-16), Pambazuka. Poetry is defined differently by different people. How do Africans define poetry? Is it possible to draw from the experiences of pre-colonial African oral traditions in developing an organically grown and contextualised slam poetry movement in South Africa? asks Mphutlane Wa Bofelo. [Full Text Article, html]
Comment penser l’Afrique ?
Entretien d’Achille Mbembe avec Célestin Monga publié par Africultures en partenariat avec Le Messager. [Africultures] (more…)