NEUROCOVID: Experience of a Sub-Saharan African country, example of Senegal

This study explored how and when female board members make effective contribution to board processes in a sub-Saharan African country (Ghana), a context characterized by low female representation on corporate boards, but highly under-researched with respect to the gender and corporate governance literature. The study is based on interview data from 25 female board directors in Ghana. The results show that women on corporate boards contribute to effective board processes and outcomes when their proposed ideas during board meetings are accepted by other board members, implemented by management and impact positively on organizational outcomes such as enhanced financial, product and staff outcomes. These effective contributions of female board directors to corporate board processes can further be enhanced by suitable female directors’ personal-level conditions such as their human capital (advanced degree and professional qualification, and past board membership experience) and family support (supportive husbands, and having grown up children), as well as board-level conditions like occupying chairperson/leadership position on the board or committees, and regular attendance at board meetings. Consequently, this research study contributed to the gender and corporate governance literature by providing new evidence from under-researched geographical context on how women on corporate boards contribute to effective board processes. It further highlights personal and board-level conditions that are necessary for greater contributions of female directors to corporate board processes and outcomes in male-dominated societies and boards.

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A11120 Characterizing quality of current hypertension management in primary healthcare in a middle-income sub Saharan African country

Journal of Hypertension ◽

10.1097/01.hjh.0000548574.83852.8a ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 ◽

pp. e142

Author(s):

Neo Tapela ◽

Gontse Tshisimogo** ◽

Miriam Lowa ◽

Bame P. Shatera ◽

Virginia Letsatsi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Primary Healthcare ◽

African Country ◽

Hypertension Management ◽

Middle Income ◽

Sub Saharan

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What are the critical dimensions in Ghana's senior high school social studies curriculum? Under the lens of a critical global citizenship education framework

International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning ◽

10.18546/ijdegl.11.2.02 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 142-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Simon Eten Angyagre ◽

Albert Kojo Quainoo

Keyword(s):

Social Studies ◽

Citizenship Education ◽

African Country ◽

Global Citizenship ◽

Social Studies Curriculum ◽

Critical Dimensions ◽

Global Citizenship Education ◽

The Social ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

School Curricula

A review of school curricula approaches to citizenship formation in a sub-Saharan African education context reveals such practice is still largely focused on a traditional social studies approach. This approach to citizenship development may be limiting in terms of potential to foster students' civic competencies for addressing social injustice associated with the impacts of globalization that impinge on local realities. Drawing on a critical global citizenship education (GCE) framework and GCE core conceptual dimensions developed by UNESCO, this study assessed the critical dimensions of the social studies curriculum for secondary education in one sub-Saharan African country. Through interviews with teachers, focus groups with students and a review of the social studies teaching syllabus, the study revealed limitations in both content and the pedagogical approach to the delivery of Ghana's current social studies curriculum for senior high schools.

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Sexual Violence and Victim Blaming in Nigeria

Women s Health - Open Journal ◽

10.17140/whoj-7-143 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 27-30

Author(s):

Emmanuel E. Nwusulor ◽

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Ifeoma I. Onwubiko ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

African Country ◽

Victim Blaming ◽

Health Consequences ◽

Online Social Media ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Major Factors

Aims and Objectives To determine the trend and pattern of sexual violence and victim blaming in Nigeria, which is associated with a range of health consequences, to publish the trend and proffer solutions on how to stem the tide. Methods Questionnaires were administered to individuals physically by hand as well as electronically via online social media groups. Results In this study carried out between July 2019 and August 2020, the opinion of 251 respondents comprising 153 males (61%) and 98 females (39%) between ages 23 and 60 years, were sought concerning who to blame in a sexual violence event: 150 (60%) comprising 120 males (45%) and 30 females (15%) blamed the victim: 80 (31%) comprising 26 males (10%) and 54 females (21%) blamed the perpetrators, while 21 (9%) comprising 7 males (3%) and 14 females (6%) were indifferent. Conclusion Victim blaming is prevalent in Nigeria and this has been one of the major factors that make sexual violence the fastest growing crime in this most populated Sub-Saharan African Country.

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Epilogue

10.1093/oso/9780198748960.003.0014 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 241-242

Author(s):

Thaddeus Metz

Keyword(s):

Moral Obligation ◽

Moral Theory ◽

African Country ◽

Good Position ◽

African Students ◽

Intellectual Traditions ◽

Moral Theories ◽

Sub Saharan ◽

Political Philosopher ◽

Do So

At the end of the first chapter (1.5), I noted that, since having moved to an African country, I have considered myself to have had a moral obligation to engage with its intellectual traditions when teaching and researching. I would have rightly felt guilt had I taught merely Western ethics to African students and contributed only Euro-American-Australasian perspectives to journals published in the sub-Saharan region. Having been principally trained as an analytic moral and political philosopher, I have been in a good position to articulate normative-theoretic interpretations of African morality, to evaluate these moral theories by appealing to intuitions, and to apply them to a range of practical controversies. Now, it would be welcome if the relational moral theory I have defended in this book could explain why I had a duty to make such a contribution to the field. And indeed it does. I have had an obligation of some weight to teach and research African philosophical ideas as I am particularly able to do so for a reason that is by now familiar to the reader. In the way that a newly trained doctor has an obligation of some weight to give something back to his country before emigrating (...

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