Africa Counts

Author : Claudia Zaslavsky
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613741154
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa Counts written by Claudia Zaslavsky and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 1999-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating study of mathematical thinking among sub-Saharan African peoples covers counting in words and in gestures; measuring time, distance, weight, and other quantities; manipulating money and keeping accounts; number systems; patterns in music, poetry, art, and architecture; and number magic and taboos. African games such as mankala and elaborate versions of tic-tac-toe show how complex this thinking can be. An invaluable resource for students, teachers, and others interested in African cultures and multiculturalism, this third edition is updated with an introduction covering two decades of new research in the ethnomathematics of Africa.

Author : Claudia Zaslavsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africa Counts written by Claudia Zaslavsky and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study by a mathematical scholar on the ways in which African people count, keep time and records, play games, use geometry in art and architecture, etc. Based on research in Nigeria and East Africa.

Author : G. Boonman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401582246
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Africa’s grasses and fodders: Their ecology and husbandry written by G. Boonman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Tasks for Vegetation Science is devoted to a variety of research aspects in vegetation science, pure as wellas applied. Of the applied problems one of the most pressing is to achieve better knowledge and improvement of the pasture vegetation in tropical and subtropical regions. As series editor I was impressed by the sheer volume of useful scientific information concerning pasture plants from East Africa collected during many years by Dr. Boonman and compiled in one manuscript. Dr. Boonman first came to East Africa in 1963 on an overland journey along the river Nile which took him from Alexandria in Egypt to Lake Victoria in Uganda and Kenya and back again. After a brief spell as a cotton agronomist in the Sudan Gezira he joined the grassland research team at Kitale, Kenya in 1966. Improvement ofseed yield oftropical grasses was his principal interest which finally led him into the fieldof breeding grasses. Well-known varieties from his work include Boma & Elmba Rhodesgrass as wellas Clone 13Elephantgrass. In 1979he was recalled to The Netherlands to head a cooperative seedcompany involved in the breeding of grasses and cereals. The author has focused this study on one region, Eastern Africa.Global application of theories runs into conflicts too easily with local types of farming, if not with bare economics. Very few books can be found that describe existing practices and seek local answers by digging deep in the stacks of old, local reports.

Author : J. J. Blanc
Publisher : IUCN
ISBN 13 : 2831709709
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Elephant Status Report 2007 written by J. J. Blanc and published by IUCN. This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Reiner Klingholz
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1928314740
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leapfrogging Africa written by Reiner Klingholz and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, we look at the potential for development leaps in Africa in three key sectors that provided the basis for socioeconomic development around the world: health, education and agriculture. Advances in these sectors increase the human capital, create jobs and economic opportunities and have a positive influence on each other. Healthy and well-fed children can learn better; hygiene and better medical care diminish infant mortality, which reduces the desire for a large number of children; education for women promotes gender equality and causes birth rates to fall further. This creates a population structure under which the economy can grow particularly well: a demographic dividend becomes possible.

Author : Shoko Yamada
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956553158
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Knowledge, Education and Social Structure in Africa written by Shoko Yamada and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In searching for the potential that lies in African societies, the chapters of this volume consider relationships between knowledge, education and social structure from multiple angles, from a macro-continental scale to national education systems, schools and local communities. The themes that cut across the chapters include education as a mode of transmitting values, the contrasting effects of school credentials and knowledge for use, politics and interactions among people surrounding a school and knowledge acquisition as a subjective process. The rich empirical analyses suggest that the subjective commitment of, and mutuality among, people will make the acquired knowledge a powerful 'tool for conviviality' to realize a stable life, even given the turmoil created by rapid institutional and environmental changes that confront African societies.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264312307
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getting Skills Right Community Education and Training in South Africa written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult learning systems play a crucial role in helping people adapt to the changing world of work and develop relevant skills. Community Education and Training has been brought forward as a possible way to foster adult learning in South Africa, especially among disadvantaged groups. South Africa ...

Author : Susan Giaimo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137107170
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming Health Care in the United States, Germany, and South Africa written by Susan Giaimo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As countries confront new health care challenges in the 21st century, their health care systems reflect the problems and political settlements of an earlier age. Meeting these new challenges requires reform of existing health care system arrangements while reconciling the goals of equitable access to quality care at an affordable price. This book compares health care reforms in industrialized nations and the Global South to uncover the similarities and differences in their problems and solutions. It examines the struggle over the Affordable Care Act and its alternatives in the United States, major health care reforms in Germany in the new century, and South Africa's efforts to combat AIDS and construct a comprehensive health care system for all. These particular reforms reflect the underlying configuration of politics in each country.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264202889
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: South Africa 2013 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report evaluates South Africa's progress towards sustainable development and green growth, with a focus on policies that provide incentives to protect South Africa's exceptionally rich biodiversity and promote more effective and efficient environmental management.

Author : African Development Bank
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 926427426X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Economic Outlook 2017 Entrepreneurship and Industrialisation written by African Development Bank and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Economic Outlook 2017 presents the continent’s current state of affairs and forecasts its situation for the coming two years.