African/Afrikan-centered Psychology

2020 ◽  
pp. 008124632097200
Author(s):  
Nhlanhla Mkhize
Keyword(s):  
African Continent ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Afrocentric Paradigm ◽  
Psychological Concepts

Psychology, as it is taught in most universities on the African continent, is an extension of the Eurocentric psychological paradigm. This article argues that colonization has not only led to the loss of land, it has been accompanied by the eradication of complex, interdisciplinary knowledge traditions that comprise the subject of Afrikan Psychology. The article goes on to outline the inclusive epistemology and transdisciplinary methodology that undergird Afrikan Psychology. The orientating concepts in Afrikan Psychology are introduced. The urgent need to develop interventions that are informed by the Afrocentric paradigm is highlighted. The article concludes with a call for the study of Afrikan languages to unearth the psychological concepts that are embedded in them.

scholarly journals Regional African stock markets indices

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
T. Fish ◽  
N. Biekpe
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
East Africa ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
African Continent ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Market Trends ◽  
Market Capitalisation

This paper presents an overview of the construction of regional indices for three of the four regions within Africa. The three indices are the EASDEX (for East Africa), the NADEX (for North Africa) and the WADEX (for West Africa). The SADC region has been excluded, as it has recently been concluded as the subject of study, in which the index, the SADIX was constructed (Tyandela, 2001). The weekly market capitalisation data collected for the construction of these indices was further used to construct an All-Africa index. These indices could in future assist investors both locally and internationally to determine the movement of indices as a way of assessing market trends and opportunities for investment on the African continent.

Regulation of Venture Capital in the EU and East and West Africa: Impacts and Possibilities

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-307
Author(s):  
Jean Michel Marone
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Venture Capital ◽  
Investor Protection ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Capital Regulation ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Eu

This article provides a discussion of venture capital regulation in Africa and Europe. It is based on a mixed-methods study of three representative cases across two geopolitical entities. The cases are Germany, Kenya and Nigeria. The article notes the lacuna in scholarly circles on the African continent with respect to venture capital and therefore lays the platform for robust engagement with the subject. Using analysis from Germany, it observes that lessons can be drawn on how effective institutions may not be a hindrance to capital but serve to continue to attract. With strong correlations between capital and investor protection as well as capital and taxation levels, a case is made for better institutions even in Eastern and West Africa.

Sierra Leonais, Créoles, Krio: la dialectique de l'identité

Africa ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odile Goerg
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
West Indies ◽  
African Continent ◽  
The West ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New Research ◽  
The Town

The study of phenomena relating to identity has prompted new approaches to the subject on the part of historians as well as anthropologists. They include the study of ethnicity, a dynamic combination of socio-economic, religious, cultural and political factors. In this regard the population of Freetown is particularly interesting, for it stems from several discrete migrations from the end of the eighteenth century onwards. Some of the immigrants came direct from the African continent, ‘Liberated Africans’ disembarked on the Sierra Leone peninsula, while others, formerly slaves, came from the UK, North America or the West Indies. The result of this diversity of origin was the formation of a very rich and specific society, with a mixture of European, African and West Indian characteristics. Among the town dwellers are those called successively Sierra Leoneans, Creoles and Krio.Since the 1950s several studies have focused on these people. After a polemical article published in 1977, new research was undertaken. Krio identity, which is at the same time a historical theme and politically contested territory, remains at the heart of the debate. In this article, emphasis is placed on terminology, to address the question of ‘ethnicity’ as applied to those known as Creoles. What were they called by administrators or historians (past and present)? What did they call themselves? How did they react to the various attempts at categorisation? How did the names, which are the visible aspect of ethnicity, evolve? What did the terms really mean and how can one move from a given name to the object it represents? These questions take into account several points of view, from within Krio/Creole society and from outside it.

Contested Encounters

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 244-262
Author(s):  
Karen L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Secondary English ◽  
Literature Overview ◽  
English Language Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
First Contact ◽  
Language Literature ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract This article focuses on China’s initial encounter with the African continent from the perspective of a select literature overview. It reflects on the very earliest contacts between dynastic China and ancient Africa and shows that the current contestation in the Western media as well as literature over this more recent contact is not new. Given the dearth and disparate nature of the information on these first encounters, it does this through the lens of what has been written on the subject of the speculated first contact in a selection of secondary English-language literature. It does so by considering the prevalence of such literature in three distinct periods: prior to 1949; from 1950 to 1990; and a selection of research published thereafter. It shows that China’s encounter with Africa reaches far back into the history of the continent, but more importantly so does the volatile contestation surrounding the contemporary contact.

scholarly journals The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) and the Luso-African identity

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (5 (68)) ◽  
pp. 193-215
Author(s):  
Joanna Mormul
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Official Language ◽  
African Continent ◽  
African Identity ◽  
Political Cooperation ◽  
The Press ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Subject

The article aims at searching for the correlation between the Luso-African identity, understood as a form of cultural identity based on the concept of Lusophony, and The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP), an international organisation that brings together countries whose official language is Portuguese. The CPLP is considered as an institutional emanation of the idea of Lusophony. However, for almost 25 years since its creation it still receives a lot of criticism. Despite the multiplicity of initiatives that it proposed, for a long time it seemed that the CPLP did not really move beyond the concept phase. Furthermore, until recently the organisation has focused mainly on cultural and political cooperation, leaving behind its enormous economic possibilities and provoking questions about an untapped potential of the CPLP. The paper attempts to reflect on the hypothesis that the limited capacities of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries regarding the African continent are, at least partially, related to the problem with Luso-African identity. The considerations presented in the article are based on the critical reading of the literature of the subject, qualitative analysis of the already existing data (official documents and the press, available statistics), as well as the author’s reflections drawn from observations, interviews and informal talks conducted during field research in Mozambique (2015) and Guinea-Bissau (2016), along with multiple study visits to Portugal (2011-2016), while realizing the research project devoted to the problem of state dysfunctionality in the Lusophone Africa.

scholarly journals Duet Lectorials: An Engaging Approach to Interdisciplinary Teaching

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Maree Slattery ◽  
Renea Anne Taylor ◽  
Christian Daniel Doerig
Keyword(s):  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Positive Outcome ◽  
Biomedical Sciences ◽  
Traditional Lecture ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teaching ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Powerful Approach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Improved Performance

Duet Lectorials were delivered to third-year students undertaking their final ‘cap-stone’ unit by two experts straddling two inter-related but distinct biomedical disciplines. This interdisciplinary teaching approach was introduced for two reasons: firstly, to address a gap in integrated learning at the interface between biomedical disciplines; and secondly, to support non- teaching focused, research experts, in the engaging delivery of lectures. Compared with traditional lecture delivery, students who had received Duet Lectorials reported an increase in their enjoyment of learning, a greater interest and engagement with the subject content, and, most importantly, improved in-depth understanding of the topic through an integrated perspective of the two disciplines. This positive outcome in student learning was further validated by improved performance in objective assessment tasks. Lecturers delivering Duet Lectorials reported a deepening of their own interdisciplinary knowledge that stimulated their enjoyment of teaching. Thus, interdisciplinary teaching using interactive Duet Lectorials emerges as a powerful approach to improve both student and teacher engagement and learning in the classroom, and brings a strong contribution to breaking the discipline-specific “silo” mentality in the teaching of complex aspects of biomedical sciences.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPETENCE APPROACH IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHERS-IN-TRAINING

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-179
Author(s):  
Tetiana Kharchenko ◽  
Larysa Udovichenko ◽  
Maryna Zvereva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
The Subject

The paper proves that applying reflexive practices in the training process at the specialized seminar on the analysis of practices is a significant component of the competence approach implementation. It was found out that training students to analyze complicated in-class situations under the supervision of an experienced trainer who observes, sets the paths, supports and assists them in interpreting their own methods of teaching and professional behavior, is an efficient technique of training. Studying the case of the module course called Analysis of Teacher’s Practices, introduced at the Higher National Institute of Education, Nice Academy, France (INSPE) proved that the active participation in the practices analysis seminar helps teachers-to-be develop new specific skills and competences based on their own experience. The paper highlights the principles of the organization of the seminars of practice analysis: the principles of ethics; of sincere interpretation; of contrast. It was stated that themes of seminars should be chosen in accordance with the students’ pedagogical probations. The authors formulate the targets of the seminars on the analysis of practices: making the knowledge of the subjects (including foreign languages) they teach more profound; further integration of interdisciplinary knowledge; mastering and developing narrow and specific knowledge in the subject they teach, as well as transversal knowledge of how help children study efficiently; developing reflexive state of a competent teacher. The paper proved that all the methods of the analysis of practices are based on different activities of the teacher-to-be themselves: memories and comparison of different lesson parts of whole lessons; the analysis of the teaching practices with the help of the supervisor; the analysis of “strengths” of the teaching practice; comparison of practical targets and results; the analysis of video recordings of lessons; the analysis of experienced teachers’ work; modelling and simulation of in-class situations. The perspectives of further research are a detailed study of the content of the course modules and phases of carrying out seminars.

scholarly journals Digital music art through the prism of interdisciplinarity

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Elena Nikolaevna Piryazeva
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Chaotic Nature ◽  
Scientific Framework

  The processes taking place in modern science tend to integrate various scientific disciplines in studying any scientific phenomenon. This explains the search of methodology based on the techniques of different sciences involved in formation of the subject of research, which in this article is represented by the digital music art. Interpreted as a branch of music art with digital specificity, digital music art incorporates electronic music presented by specific, algorithmic, and electronic music. A signature characteristic of digital music art consists in its interdisciplinarity, which suggests the combined effect of separate parts of the system and leads to self-organization, which corresponds with the scientific tasks of synergetics. This substantiates the relevance for elaboration of interdisciplinary methodology for studying digital music art in the context of research mechanisms developed within synergetics. The scientific lies in the analysis of digital art through the prism of the qualities inherent to synergetics. The disciplines united by digital art (mathematics, set theory, probability theory, information theory, combinatorics, game theory, cybernetics, computer science, acoustics, sociology, communication, and biology) are interdisciplinary, which means that in ensemble with other disciplines they form a complex interdisciplinary knowledge of structure of digital music art. At the same time, the disciplines that comprise scientific framework of digital music art are attributed to different sciences: humanities, natural sciences, mathematics, social sciences, and technical sciences. In this context, the research of digital music art is simultaneously of interdisciplinary and multiscientific nature. The author established a peculiar impact of interdisciplinarity upon digital art, which generates the qualities inherent to synergetics – nonlinearity, disequilibrium, openness, chaotic nature, entropy, indeterminacy, and dissipation.  

Mobile phones in Africa: The politics of cultural and material integration into local economies

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-546
Author(s):  
James Odhiambo Ogone
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Modern Technologies

The rapid expansion of mobile telephony in Africa has been the subject of many debates both in the academia and industry. However, such discourse has tended to focus more on the technology itself rather than its users. This article seeks to frame mobile phones as modern technologies whose contextual uses are heavily entangled in the unique socio-economic dynamics of the African continent. Here the focus is on the African informal economy and the culture it enables, the fractious nature of infrastructure and practices of repair, African notions of conviviality and their political role, and African traditions in the context of globalization. Through these various lenses the study considers the different ways in which the mobile phone becomes Africanized.

Introduction: Slavery, Social Revolutions and Enduring Memories

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Lane ◽  
Kevin C. Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Approach ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Present Volume ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Slavery played an important role in the economies of most historically documented African states of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This introductory chapter considers the regionality and relative antiquity of various forms of enslavement on the African continent, as well as a range of emergent archaeological studies on the subject. Further, the lingering impacts of slave economies and the memories of enslavement are critically assessed, including consideration of recent efforts to document and ‘memorialise’ both the tangible and intangible heritage of slavery on the continent. The contributions to the present volume are situated within these issues with the aim of drawing out commonalities between chapters and emphasising the value of an inter-regional comparative approach.

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