O feminismo africano e a escrita de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Esta dissertação tem como objetivo analisar a problemática do pensamento de mulheres negras, afro-americanas e africanas, expressamente nas suas obras selecionadas para o efeito. Pretende-se aprofundar as questões relacionadas com a problemática do racismo e das práticas de exclusão levadas a cabo por feministas brancas ocidentais perante mulheres negras e denunciadas por intelectuais negras como bell hooks, Patricia Hill Collins, Audre Lorde, feministas pós-coloniais como Uma Narayan, Chandra Talpade Mohanty e Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak e africanas, nomeadamente Molara Ogundipe-Leslie, Oyeronke Oyewumi, Chikwenye Ogunyemi, etc. No âmbito deste trabalho, dar-se-á particular relevo à questão da voz de mulheres negras, no sentido da sua capacidade de denunciar as práticas discriminatórias por parte dos feminismos ocidentais que relegaram as mulheres negras à margem da vida cultural e histórica. Analisar-se-á a razão por detrás de distanciamento de feministas negras de alguns conceitos promovidos por feminismos ocidentais e explicar-se-á a importância da insistência de mulheres negras no seu direito à auto-nomeação enquanto ato político e simbólico. O ato que leva as mulheres negras a elaborar respostas mais adequadas à realidade e às necessidades das suas conterrâneas que não são, de maneira nenhuma, idênticas às verbalizadas pelas feministas no Ocidente. Nesta dissertação de mestrado, optou-se, principalmente, por uma perspetiva cultural (na sua parte dedicada à teoria feminista, por exemplo) de forma a enquadrar a problemática da mulher africana enquanto sujeito com voz. A parte baseada em obras literárias incluída na dissertação, que apresenta dois romances de autora nigeriana da nova geração, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, terá como objetivo fornecer um instrumento de análise mais prático dos problemas abordados na parte inicial.

Ngozi region, Burundi, 1994, Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) Series Z724, Sheet 4775-II (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the United States Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) Series Z724, Burundi, 1:50,000 Topographic Line Map (TLM) Series sheet map entitled: Ngozi. Printed in: 1994. Covers portions of Ngozi region, Burundi. Sheet: 4775-II. Edition statement: Ed. 1 - DMA. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to World Geodetic System (1984) coordinates. All map collar information is also available as part of the raster image. Burundi 1:50:000 Series Z724 maps are in English and French (legends also include Rundi). Each source map in the series is printed in color at a scale of 1:50,000. Series source sheets were published in 1994-1995 by the United States Defense Mapping Agency, Hydrographic/Topographic Center. The source map was scanned and georeferenced for Harvard University's Center for Geographic Analysis' AfricaMap project by East View Cartographic. Individual TLM sheets covering Burundi (40 sheets in total) were selected from the TLM worldwide series. DMA Topographic Line Map series maps are typical topographic maps portraying both natural and manmade features. They show and name works of nature, such as mountains, valleys, lakes, rivers, vegetation, etc. They also identify the principal works of humans, such as roads, railroads, boundaries, transmission lines, major buildings, etc. Relief is shown with standard contour intervals of 20 meters, with some sheets having supplemental meter contours, form lines, hachures, shading, and/or spot heights. Depths shown by bathymetric isolines. Please pay close attention to map collar information on projections, spheroid, compilation dates, legend information, and keys to grid numbering and other numbers which appear inside the neatline.

Listing of Faculty Publications, Spring 1982

The Library Media Resources Center is happy to publish this revised Listing of Faculty Publications. As you recall, the first edition was issued in 1979 and so, 2 1/2 years later, it is our pleasure to present a larger and more complete edition... Special thanks to Professor Albert Talero who did all the editing and arrangements for the publication. Thanks also to Professor Fred Low for making the TRS-80 wordprocessing facilities of the LaGuardia Automated Library System (LALS) available for this edition. --Ngozi Agbim, April 23, 1982; 51 p.

c&d-learning implementation architecture: Adapting e-learning to developing countries

From the educational point of view, the most widespread method in developing countries is on-site education. Technical and economic resources cannot support conventional distance learning infrastructures and it is even worse for courses in universities. They usually suffer a lack of qualified faculty staff, especially in technical degrees. The literature suggest that e-learning is a suitable solution for this problem, but its methods are developed attending to educational necessities of the First World and cannot be applied directly to other contexts. The proposed methodology is a variant of traditional e-learning adapted to the needs of developing countries. E-learning for Cooperation and Development (c&d-learning) is oriented to be used for educational institutions without adequate technical or human resources. In this paper we describe the c&d-learning implementation architecture based on three main phases: hardware, communication and software; e.g. computer and technical equipping, internet accessing and e-learning platform adaptation. Proper adaptation of educational contents to c&d-learning is discussed and a real case of application in which the authors are involved is described: the Ngozi University at Burundi.

Evaluation of an application for managing microcredits in education

One of the major problems in developing countries is minority access to higher education. Traditional scholarships usually focus on paying eventually tuition fees or bringing brilliant students to develop countries. Additionally, these systems used to be opaque and, consequently, a corruption source. We propose a system of student loans to pay tuition fees in exchange for work. We also provide UBURYO. It is the FOSS, that we have developed, to manage this loan system in a simple, trustworthy, fair and efficient way. We deployed the loan system in the University of Ngozi (UNG, Burundi). A shallow evaluation demonstrates that system sustainability is feasible.

Half of a yellow sun

A beautiful sweeping story of two sisters caught up in the events of the Nigerian civil war, ending in chilling violence which shocked the entire world.

Prevalence and factors associated with anthropometric failure, vitamin A and iron deficiency among adolescents in a Nigerian urban community.

Background: Under nutrition is a problem of severe magnitude in low income countries like Nigeria. Adolescent school children might also be vulnerable. The dearth of data hinders planning of school health and nutrition programmes for school children. Objective: To determine the prevalence of stunting, thinness; vitamin A and iron deficiencies among adolescent students in Nsukka urban, Nigeria and to determine factors that are associated with these nutritional problems. Methods: A total of 400 participants were randomly selected from 717 students aged 12 – 18 years in 3 randomly selected secondary schools. Questionnaires, anthropometric measurements, and blood analyses were the data collection methods employed. Results: The prevalence of stunting was 33.3% and thinness 31.0%. Neither overweight nor obesity was observed. While 64.0% were anaemic; 44.0% had vitamin A deficiency (VAD). A total of 48.0% had both anaemia and stunting, 42% had VAD + thinness; while 40% had anaemia + VAD. Household income was a predictor of vitamin A status. Children from medium/ high income households had higher odds of having VAD than those from low income households (AOR=0.14; 95% CI=0.031, 0.607; P=0.009). Household income (AOR=0.12; 95% CI=0.021, 0.671; P=0.016), and age (AOR=0.09; 95% CI=0.014, 0.587; P=0.012) were independent determinants of height-for-age status. Conclusion: Among urban adolescent students in Nigeria, stunting, thinness, anaemia and VAD were problems of public health significance. Age and household monthly income played major roles.