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African Systems of Science, Technology & Art

Author : Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Systems of Science, Technology & Art written by Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, compiled and introduced by Gloria Thomas-Emeagwali, represent an important collection of African scientific history and historiography. The writers concentrate on the different aspects of technological and scientific experiments and the processes and procedures which exemplify a live tradition. The book shows that the scientific spirit is not isolated to a particular group of people, nor to a particular region, but to the whole of Nigeria. The essays confirm the extent to which the scientific spirit has been a fundamental social activity in Nigeria in the pre- and post-colonial world: the quest for new technology, new methods of investigation and application, remains a foundation of Nigerian society upon which innovations are being introduced to lend to the inherited scientific

The Science of Economic Development and Growth: The Theory of Factor Proportions

Author : C.C. Onyemelukwe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315500124
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Science of Economic Development and Growth: The Theory of Factor Proportions written by C.C. Onyemelukwe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretical framework aiming to facilitate study of development economics. The author presents his theory in three sections: how advanced nations developed; a proposed third dimension, in addition to labour and capital; and why capital accumulation is unnecessary, even potentially harmful.

African Voices in Education

Author : Philip Higgs
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780702151996
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book African Voices in Education written by Philip Higgs and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Africanisation of education is a highly topical issue. The potentials and pitfalls of Africanisation have drawn a great deal of critical debate, both in Africa and abroad. After the political changes of 1994 in South Africa, there has been renewed interest in the question of a distinctively African philosophy. This publication provides a systematic and clear exposition of an African voice in education, drawing on distinguished authors across Africa.

Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set)

Author : Susan Sinclair
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004170588
Total Pages : 1510 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set) by : Susan Sinclair

Download or read book Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 Vol. Set) written by Susan Sinclair and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.

Vigilant Things

Author : David T Doris
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295802499
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Vigilant Things written by David T Doris and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association) Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their properties�farms, gardens, market goods, firewood�from the ravages of thieves. Aale are objects of such unassuming appearance that a non-Yoruba viewer might not register their important presence in the Yoruba visual landscape: a dried seedpod tied with palm fronds to the trunk of a fruit tree, a burnt corncob suspended on a wire, an old shoe tied with a rag to a worn-out broom and broken comb, a ripe red pepper pierced with a single broom straw and set atop a pile of eggs. Consequently, aale have rarely been discussed in print, and then only as peripheral elements in studies devoted to other issues. Yet aale are in no way peripheral to Yoruba culture or aesthetics. In Vigilant Things, David T. Doris argues that aale are keys to understanding how images function in Yoruba social and cultural life. The humble, often degraded objects that comprise aale reveal as eloquently as any canonical artwork the channels of power that underlie the surfaces of the visible. Aale are warnings, intended to trigger the work of conscience. Aale objects symbolically threaten suffering as the consequence of transgression�the suffering of disease, loss, barrenness, paralysis, accident, madness, fruitless labor, or death�and as such are often the useless residues of things that were once positively valued: empty snail shells, shards of pottery, fragments of rusted iron, and the like. If these objects share �suffering� and �uselessness� as constitutive elements, it is because they already have been made to suffer and become useless. Aale offer would-be thieves an opportunity to recognize themselves in advance of their actions and to avoid the thievery that would make the "useless" people.

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Westen Cultures

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9780792340669
Total Pages : 1172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Westen Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-07-31 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopaedia fills a gap in both the history of science and in cultural stud ies. Reference works on other cultures tend either to omit science completely or pay little attention to it, and those on the history of science almost always start with the Greeks, with perhaps a mention of the Islamic world as a trans lator of Greek scientific works. The purpose of the Encyclopaedia is to bring together knowledge of many disparate fields in one place and to legitimize the study of other cultures' science. Our aim is not to claim the superiority of other cultures, but to engage in a mutual exchange of ideas. The Western aca demic divisions of science, technology, and medicine have been united in the Encyclopaedia because in ancient cultures these disciplines were connected. This work contributes to redressing the balance in the number of reference works devoted to the study of Western science, and encourages awareness of cultural diversity. The Encyclopaedia is the first compilation of this sort, and it is testimony both to the earlier Eurocentric view of academia as well as to the widened vision of today. There is nothing that crosses disciplinary and geographic boundaries, dealing with both scientific and philosophical issues, to the extent that this work does. xi PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Many years ago I taught African history at a secondary school in Central Africa.

African Mind, Culture, and Technology

Author : Yamikani Ndasauka
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031629795
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book African Mind, Culture, and Technology written by Yamikani Ndasauka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Entrepreneurship in Africa

Author : Moses E. Ochonu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253032628
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Entrepreneurship in Africa written by Moses E. Ochonu and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explores the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers, craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians, technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social, economic, and political debates in Africa today.

Africa as a Living Laboratory

Author : Helen Tilley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226803473
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Africa as a Living Laboratory written by Helen Tilley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Africa as a Living Laboratory' is a study of the relationship between imperialism and scientific expertise - environmental medical, racial and anthropological - in the colonization of British Africa.

Building Science, Technology and Innovation Systems in Africa

Author : Abdelkader DJEFL
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912234238
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Building Science, Technology and Innovation Systems in Africa by : Abdelkader DJEFL

Download or read book Building Science, Technology and Innovation Systems in Africa written by Abdelkader DJEFL and published by Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book discusses the policies and strategies for Science and Technology (S&T) and Innovation capability building put up by Maghreb states (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco) in the last three decades. The application of structural adjustment programmes (SAPs) in recent years, the opening up of their economies and liberalisation of trade have confronted firms with largely innovation-based competition and the attempt to reduce this impact are far from effective, particularly in the face of the era of knowledge economy and sustainability requirements. The work is articulated around three major themes: the difficult path to S&T capacity building, the attempts to put up National Systems of Innovation (NSI) and the prospects for a more innovation driven growth at the territorial level, notably through intermediate institutions and science and technology poles. While pointing out the difficulties of building NSI, the book examines how the context of an innovation- driven competition put local firms, especially SMEs, in a difficult position. It notes that universities, which are prone to internal politics and rent-seeking, are not producing the necessary human capital. The knowledge economy era challenges raise some hopes for better access to innovation and knowledge assets in the world while at the territorial level, new innovation dynamics are taking place. Based on extensive research and consultancy work done on the analysis of policies in the Maghreb, the book also raises the issue of the neighborhood of the European Union, and argues that unless Europe integrates the Maghreb in a real neighborhood Innovation System, the prospects for innovation take -off in the region are limited.

Reader's Guide to the History of Science

Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134262949
Total Pages : 965 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Reader's Guide to the History of Science written by Arne Hessenbruch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 965 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.

African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences

Author : Gloria Emeagwali
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9463005153
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences written by Gloria Emeagwali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an intellectual journey into epistemology, pedagogy, physics, architecture, medicine and metallurgy. The focus is on various dimensions of African Indigenous Knowledge (AIK) with an emphasis on the sciences, an area that has been neglected in AIK discourse. The authors provide diverse views and perspectives on African indigenous scientific and technological knowledge that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, and policy makers, in both governmental and non-governmental organizations, and enable critical and alternative analyses and possibilities for understanding science and technology in an African historical and contemporary context.

Africa and the Academy

Author : Gloria T. Emeagwali
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa and the Academy written by Gloria T. Emeagwali and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?

Author : Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262533901
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Book Synopsis What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? by : Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga

Download or read book What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa? written by Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorations of science, technology, and innovation in Africa not as the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but as the working of African knowledge. In the STI literature, Africa has often been regarded as a recipient of science, technology, and innovation rather than a maker of them. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines show that STI in Africa is not merely the product of “technology transfer” from elsewhere but the working of African knowledge. Their contributions focus on African ways of looking, meaning-making, and creating. The chapter authors see Africans as intellectual agents whose perspectives constitute authoritative knowledge and whose strategic deployment of both endogenous and inbound things represents an African-centered notion of STI. “Things do not (always) mean the same from everywhere,” observes Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, the volume's editor. Western, colonialist definitions of STI are not universalizable. The contributors discuss topics that include the trivialization of indigenous knowledge under colonialism; the creative labor of chimurenga, the transformation of everyday surroundings into military infrastructure; the role of enslaved Africans in America as innovators and synthesizers; the African ethos of “fixing”; the constitutive appropriation that makes mobile technologies African; and an African innovation strategy that builds on domestic capacities. The contributions describe an Africa that is creative, technological, and scientific, showing that African STI is the latest iteration of a long process of accumulative, multicultural knowledge production. Contributors Geri Augusto, Shadreck Chirikure, Chux Daniels, Ron Eglash, Ellen Foster, Garrick E. Louis, D. A. Masolo, Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Neda Nazemi, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Katrien Pype, Scott Remer

Science, Policy and Development in Africa

Author : R. Sooryamoorthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108901581
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Science, Policy and Development in Africa written by R. Sooryamoorthy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since gaining political independence in the 1950s, science has rapidly become a prerequisite for national development within many African nations. Supported by international agencies, such as UNESCO, initiatives were taken to direct Africa on the road of scientific development, enabling contributions to world science and significant progress in many specific research areas. However, from a developmental perspective there remains the question of how science influences national development plans and strategies. How far are science policies integrated into the national development plans? What potential and challenges do science and technology pose for Africa and its prospects for wider development? Offering a comprehensive historical and empirical study of science in both colonial and post-colonial Africa, R. Sooryamoorthy brings to light the connections between science, policy and development in African nations. Focusing on understanding the widening gap in science and technology between developed and developing regions, and the integration (or lack of) with national development strategies, this study provides important insights into the potential opportunities and challenges facing Africa in the areas of science.

Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development

Author : Jane L. Parpart
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 0889369100
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development written by Jane L. Parpart and published by IDRC. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Development demytsifies the theory of gender and development and shows how it plays an important role in everyday life. It explores the evolution of gender and development theory, introduces competing theoretical frameworks, and examines new and emerging debates. The focus is on the implications of theory for policy and practice, and the need to theorize gender and development to create a more egalitarian society. This book is intended for classroom and workshop use in the fields ofdevelopment studies, development theory, gender and development, and women's studies. Its clear and straightforward prose will be appreciated by undergraduate and seasoned professional, alike. Classroom exercises, study questions, activities, and case studies are included. It is designed for use in both formal and nonformal educational settings.

Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development

Author : Régnier, Philippe
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800887825
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Innovation & Appropriate Technologies for International Development written by Régnier, Philippe and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Handbook provides a conceptual discussion and an empirical review of new disruptive forms of innovation producing appropriate technologies, which address both the needs of low-income populations worldwide, and provides alternative solutions for sustainable development.