Leadership Training for 21st Century Librarians Using INELI-SSAf Model as a Case Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Rachel Ronke Ojo
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Leadership Training ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Leadership Skills ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Gates Foundation

Leadership is an integral aspect of successful organisations including libraries. Helping librarians to acquire leadership skills in order to adroitly navigate libraries through 21st century changes and challenges of the information environment is crucial. INELI (International Network for Emerging Library Innovators) was birthed globally as an initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to provide young leaders in public libraries across the world the opportunities to connect, learn, and explore new ideas and services that can transform their communities. INELI Sub-Saharan Africa (INELI-SSAf), an offshoot of the initiative for African public librarians, is a leadership training program with the primary objectives of exposing participants to concepts and practices about innovative information services in current times and assisting them to create within and across border networks for peer leaning. The topics taught include time management, advocacy, data management, smart risks, and innovations in libraries. (INELI SSAf is run by African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA)).

Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa Teacher Preparation Deployment and Support Case Study Uganda

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Oloya Oloya ◽  
Emma Broadbent Broadbent ◽  
Jacklyn Makaaru Arinaitwe Arinaitwe ◽  
Nick Taylor Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Education ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan

Spatial patterns of urbanisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: A case study of Uganda

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Samuel Tumwesigye ◽  
Matthias Vanmaercke ◽  
Lisa-Marie Hemerijckx ◽  
Alfonse Opio ◽  
Jean Poesen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Patterns ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals The Consequences of Internal Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case Study

BioScience ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (7) ◽  
pp. 664-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Salerno ◽  
Jacob Mwalyoyo ◽  
Tim Caro ◽  
Emily Fitzherbert ◽  
Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan

Urban Studies of Accra

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Grant
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Contact Points ◽  
Urban Impacts ◽  
Sub Saharan

Accra is one of the largest and most important cities in sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this article is to assess the evolution of urban studies in Accra and its main historical and contemporary foci. Early knowledge on urban Accra is fragmentary and orientated toward European contact points and urban plans, ostensibly from the gaze of Europeans. Writings from Euro-Africans such as Carl Reindorf provide a different prism into the precolonial, indigenous, urban society, whereas most indigenous urban knowledge was situated in the oral tradition at this time. Around independence, officially appointed social anthropologists wrote about an indigenous community in Tema and surveyed the multiethnic Accra environment. From independence in 1957 until the early 1980s, social scientists viewed the urban settlement as an alien, Western intervention. Local scholarship on Accra was sidelined as the academy in a poor, emergent nation became preoccupied with the genesis of nation-state building and the establishment of viable academic departments in national universities, and growing proportions of migrants regarded “home” as somewhere else, that is, ancestral villages. In the 1970s Accra was inserted into world history and social history, and social scientists began to study residential geographies, but scholarship at the city-scale remained sparse. Engagement with world and social histories and the social sciences demonstrated that history matters, but not in linear and teleological ways. The liberalization era ushered in by structural adjustment policies (SAPs) in 1983 invigorated studies of Accra’s urban impacts and effects. Much of this research was disseminated by international scholars, as Ghanaian scholars had to contend with the negative impacts of SAPs on their own universities and households. Since the turn of the 21st century, scholarship on Accra, and African cities in general, has been increasing. Diverse research questions and a multiplicity of methodologies and frameworks seek to engage Western urban theories and other variants, undertake policy-relevant work, assess ethnic and residential dynamics, contribute to international urban debates, and advance postcolonial and revisionist accounts of urbanism. Viewed at the third decade of the 21st century, scholarship on Accra is of diverse origins, encompassing scholarship from locals, members of the diaspora, and international urbanists, and a promising tilt is local–international collaborations co-producing knowledge.

The illusion of capitalism in contemporary Sub‐Saharan Africa: a case study of the Gambia

foresight ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdoulie Sallah ◽  
Colin C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
The Gambia ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan
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