scholarly journals Agents of urban (in)security: contextualising the banning of political vigilantism in Ghana

2021 ◽  
Vol 9s11 ◽  
pp. 19-39
Author(s):  
Mariam Bjarnesen
Keyword(s):  
Public Trust ◽  
West African ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
The West ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
African Nation ◽  
State Security ◽  
Political Events

In 2019, a new law banning vigilantism was adopted in the West African nation of Ghana. The law followed years of debate and violent incidents related to the presence of informally mobilised so-called �political vigilantes�, charged with providing security during political events. At first glance, the ridding of such state-competing elements through legal measures appears unproblematic and in line with democratic values. However, as this article argues, by drawing on the case study of Ghana and the pre-2020 election phase, such legal actions against non-state actors can be problematic and, in the worst case, constitute a threat to security and stability if public trust in authorities and formal state security providers is not sufficiently solid. Grounded in a broader discussion on security in fragile contexts and urban centres on the African continent, this article analyses the consequences of banning vigilantism where formal security provision is weak or not fully trusted.

Assessing Bypassed Hydrocarbons

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanley Oifoghe ◽  
Nora Alarcon ◽  
Lucrecia Grigoletto
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Reservoir Characterization ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
West African ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Present Case Study ◽  
Novel Model

Abstract Hydrocarbons are bypassed in known fields. This is due to reservoir heterogeneities, complex lithology, and limitations of existing technology. This paper seeks to identify the scenarios of bypassed hydrocarbons, and to highlight how advances in reservoir characterization techniques have improved assessment of bypassed hydrocarbons. The present case study is an evaluation well drilled on the continental shelf, off the West African Coastline. The targeted thin-bedded reservoir sands are of Cenomanian age. Some technologies for assessing bypassed hydrocarbon include Gamma Ray Spectralog and Thin Bed Analysis. NMR is important for accurate reservoir characterization of thinly bedded reservoirs. The measured NMR porosity was 15pu, which is 42% of the actual porosity. Using the measured values gave a permeability of 5.3mD as against the actual permeability of 234mD. The novel model presented in this paper increased the porosity by 58% and the permeability by 4315%.

scholarly journals Doing Theatre: Theatre Pedagogy through the Folktale

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Jean Small
Keyword(s):  
Procedural Memory ◽  
West African ◽  
French Language ◽  
The West ◽  
Repeated Interaction ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
Theatre Pedagogy ◽  
The Brain

Theatre Pedagogy holds that cognition is body-based. Through performance the body’s unconscious procedural memory learns. This information learned through repeated interaction with the world is transmitted to the brain where it becomes conscious knowledge. Theatre Pedagogy in this case study is based on the implementation of a Caribbean cultural art form in performance, in order to teach Francophone language and literature at the postsecondary level in Jamaica. This paper describes the experience of “doing theatre” with seven university students to learn the French language and literature based on an adaptation of two of Birago Diop’s folktales. In the process of learning and performing the plays, the students also understood some of the West African cultural universals of life which cut across the lives of learners in their own and in foreign cultural contexts.

Mooring Analysis of a Turret Moored FPSO in a Squall Environment

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Oberlies ◽  
Amitava Guha ◽  
Scott Slocum
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Response ◽  
Time Domain ◽  
Sensitivity Study ◽  
West African ◽  
Load Case ◽  
The West ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Input Parameters ◽  
Computationally Intensive ◽  
Transient Dynamic Response

The transient dynamic response of a FPSO in a squall environment is dependent on several input parameters. Because the response’s dependence on these input parameters is unclear prior to performing the analysis, a large number of parameter combinations need to be considered to find the combination that gives a worst-case load or response as required by reference [1]. Because the required time-domain simulations are computationally intensive, there is often a practical need to limit the number of simulations that are performed, raising questions about how many are necessary to meet the analysis objectives. This study investigates the effect of different squall scenarios on a turret moored FPSO in the West African offshore environment. A large number of cases with selected vessel headings, squall types, squall approach directions and vessel drafts are studied and parameters affecting the critical mooring loads and turret positions are identified. Possible reductions in the load case matrix along with a sensitivity study of a few parameters affecting the results are also discussed.

Modernization as Westernization? The geopolitical consequences of ethno-nationalism analyzed through Russian Art

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 744-760
Author(s):  
Tabish Shah
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
The West ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
State Security ◽  
State Organization ◽  
Russian Identity

This paper argues that ethno-nationalist models of state organization encourage and strengthen sectarianism by accentuating differences between respective majority populations and those with non-majority characteristics as problematic, and identifies and explains the impacts of this for intra-state security in the West and for building partnerships with non-Western populations, citing negative implications on how we understand political behavior and for influence in military operations. The paper uses nineteenth-century Russian identity as a case study, considers the conflation between modernization and Westernization occuring at the time and uses Russian Art of the period as an analytical tool to uncover nuances that are relevant to debates concerning security, identity, and political behavior.

scholarly journals The Environmental Effects of Policy Change in the West African Savanna: Resettlement, Structural Adjustment and Conservation in Western Mali

1998 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolores Koenig ◽  
Tiéman Diarra
Keyword(s):  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Study Data ◽  
West African ◽  
The West ◽  
African Savanna ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
River Basin Development ◽  
Case Study Data ◽  
Simultaneous Implementation

This article broadens analytic perspectives on the effects of government interventionsby looking at the interaction of two distinct but simultaneous policy initiatives: involuntary resettlement and structural adjustment. Case study data from the Bafing valley in Mali show that simultaneous implementation of these two initiatives reinforced the economic growth of the zone but increased negative environmental effects.Key Words: Mali, resettlement, structural adjustment, sahel, environmental degradation, economic development, river basin development, privatization, liberalization.

scholarly journals Physiotherapy education in Africa- The experience in Nigeria

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Seyi L. Amosun
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
West African ◽  
African Unity ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
African Nation ◽  
The World ◽  
Physiotherapy Education ◽  
World Confederation

The African Rehabilitation Institute, an arm of the Organisation of African Unity, recently designed a physiotherapy education programme for implementation in African countries.  The West African sub-region, having one of the oldest physiotherapy education programmes in the continent, was not directly involved in the formulation of the programme.  A review of physiotherapy education in Nigeria, the first  African nation after South-Africa to be admitted into the membership of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy, shows that the programme recommended by the African Rehabilitation Institute is highly commendable.

scholarly journals Dry cyclogenesis and dust mobilization in the intertropical discontinuity of the West African Monsoon: A case study

2009 ◽  
Vol 114 (D5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Bou Karam ◽  
Cyrille Flamant ◽  
Pierre Tulet ◽  
Martin C. Todd ◽  
Jacques Pelon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West African Monsoon ◽  
West African ◽  
The West ◽  
African Monsoon ◽  
Dust Mobilization
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