{"title":"6 - Sabemos Resistir: Racismo e Sexismo na internet","authors":"Flávia da Silva Clemente","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i2.1185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i2.1185","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This article analyses the harmful implications of the historical phenomenon of racism and sexism in the lives of black women. Through their manifestations on the internet, namely in the form of hateful comments, it becomes clear that racism and sexism remain active and it is necessary that the black and black feminist movement start to act in the virtual environment to face it. We conclude that black digital activism is an important tool in the struggle to build associability without oppression and inequality. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Flávia da Silva Clemente, Doutora em Serviço Social, Professora do Departamento de Serviço Social da UFPE e integrante dos Coletivos Filhas do Vento e Acadêmicas Negras. Email: flaviaclemente2000@yahoo.com.br \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42847096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"7 - Para (re)pensar política científica no Brasil: uma contribuição feminista contra-colonial","authors":"Vivian Matias Dos Santos","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i2.1186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i2.1186","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This study aims to share some reflections on how the colonial matrix of power underlies the constitution of the Brazilian scientific politics. The perspective used is that of the feminist contra-colonial theory, in order to mark and support the analysis on how the mechanisms of oppression based on race, gender and class exploration can be institutionalized and enter in the disputes that serve as a base for the production of scientific knowledge. Such reflections are the results of a walk which can be thought in terms of two avenues of research. The first considers the politics of higher education as a part of the scientific-political field. It has to do with research previously realized with women scientist working in universities of the Brazilian scientific periphery. The second seeks to think of aspects to be considered in the history of the institutionalization of the scientific politics, using a documental research, whose sources are represented by an analysis of legislation, statistical data and other documents. Among them it is worth remembering the analyses coming from documents belonging to the data-base of the main research funding agency of the national decisional scientific, technological and innovation system: the National Committee for the Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq. Through these investigative paths and starting from a feminist contra-colonial criticism, this research reveals the multiple systems of domination which configure an intersectional nature of the oppressions which also compose the scientific politics of the country. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Vivian Matias dos Santos, Professora Adjunta (dedicação exclusiva), Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia, Departamento de Serviço Social, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brasil. Email: vivian.matias@ufpe.br \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42680652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2 - Democracia ambiental em Moçambique: congruências legais e contradições práticas","authors":"Giuseppe Meloni, Ana Lúcia César Machanguia","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i2.1181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i2.1181","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000In the last decades, the protection of the environment towards a sustainable development is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity. This research aims to understand Mozambique’s commitment to attentive governance that promotes Environmental Democracy. This qualitative research is theoretical (bibliographic-documental) and makes use of the analytical and comparative method to find an answer to the following problem: Mozambique has always been present at international summits on the environment, signed the various protocols, consistently agreed, but it still faces difficulties in pursuing the objectives set at the level of governance (legislative, executive and judicial). There are several obstacles in Mozambique’s journey to become a Democratic State of Environmental Law, in line with environmental law recognized as a human right. The results of this research are challenging: in Mozambique there is little talk of environmental democracy, and the local literature on the subject is scarce. The need for greater and direct public participation in the implementation processes of major projects for the exploitation of natural resources and investments that delay the local development is widely recognized. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Giuseppe Meloni, University Professor, General Director of the Instituto Superior Dom Bosco (ISDB) – Maputo, Mozambique. Email: meloniscj@gmail.com \u0000Ana Lúcia César Machanguia, Instituto Superior Mutasa (Management), Mozambique. PhD student in Social Sustainability and Development, Universidade Aberta de Lisboa, Portugal. Email: analumachanguia@gmail.com \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41917036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mamadou Dimé, Pascal Kapagama, Zakaria Soré, I. Touré
{"title":"4 - « Afrikki mwinda » : Y'en a marre, Balai citoyen, Filimbi et Lucha – catalyseurs d'une dynamique transafricaine de l'engagement citoyen","authors":"Mamadou Dimé, Pascal Kapagama, Zakaria Soré, I. Touré","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i1.747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i1.747","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Cette contribution montre comment Filimbi et la Lucha en République démocratique du Congo, le Balai citoyen au Burkina Faso et Y’en a marre au Sénégal traduisent des permanences et des ruptures dans les processus, figures et modes de contestation sociopolitique et d’engagement citoyen en Afrique. S’appuyant sur une démarche qualitative, elle met l’accent sur une discussion des dimensions relevant du contexte national sur le projet sociopolitique porté par ces mouvements d’affirmation citoyenne. Elle discute des enjeux, des modalités d’articulation, des défis et des limites de la « transafricaine de l’indocilité » que ces mouvements désirent incarner et impulser. Elle étudie enfin l’ancrage idéologique de ces mouvements et les modalités de déclinaison de leurs actions politiques et de leurs conquêtes citoyennes. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Mamadou Dimé, Département de sociologie, Université Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis, Sénégal. Email : mamadou.dime@ugb.edu.sn \u0000Pascal Kapagama, Département de sociologie, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, République démocratique du Congo. Email : paskpgm@yahoo.fr \u0000Zakaria Soré, Département de sociologie, Université Joseph Ki-Zerbo, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Email : sorefils@gmail.com \u0000Ibrahima Touré, Département de sociologie, Université Assane Seck, Ziguinchor, Sénégal. Email : ibrahima.toure@univ-zig.sn \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42397528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Oswelled Ureke, N. Mhiripiri, Mercy Mangwana Mubayiwa, Ratidzo Midzi
{"title":"5 - Aesthetic of Innocence: Experiencing Self-filming by the San of Zimbabwe","authors":"Oswelled Ureke, N. Mhiripiri, Mercy Mangwana Mubayiwa, Ratidzo Midzi","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i1.748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i1.748","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This article discusses the process and outcome of a participatory video production endeavour in which selected members of the Twai Twai San community in Zimbabwe were taught to operate video cameras and mobile phones for the purpose of documenting their realities. The study was aimed at finding out the nature of audio-visual narratives that the marginalised community would create if empowered to do so. The article pays particular attention to representations of the self by the San community, the underlying power dynamics and socio-technical concerns of the production process. A combination of participatory action research and filmmaking methodology was employed for the study. Data for the study were collected through interviews and focus group discussions with the filmmakers and some members of the community. The article also benefits from the authors’ observations of the film production process, which is critical in the analysis of the completed ethnographic video-films The Golden Story of Makhulela and The San of Twai Twai. The study established that the films made by the San youths projected the ways in which they perceived themselves as a community. As such, the films were some form of self(ie)-representation. This perception of themselves could be the chief reason behind the film techniques employed and narratives chosen by the San youth as well as the aesthetics of the video-films. It was also found in the study that video-film could play a critical role of preserving or archiving Tyua language, which is slowly dying among the San. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Oswelled Ureke,University of Johannesburg and Midlands State University. Email: urekeo@staff.msu.ac.zw \u0000Nhamo A. Mhiripiri, Midlands State University. Email: mhiripirina@staff.msu.ac.zw \u0000Mercy Mangwana Mubayiwa, Midlands State University. Email: mercymangwanam@gmail.com \u0000Ratidzo Midzi, Midlands State University. Email: ratidzomidzi@yahoo.com \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47403258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Yegbemey, Aline M. Aloukoutou, Ghislain B. D. Aïhounton
{"title":"8 - The Impact of Short Message Services (SMS) Weather Forecasts on Cost, Yield and Income in Maize Production: Evidence from a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial in Bembèrèkè, North Benin","authors":"R. Yegbemey, Aline M. Aloukoutou, Ghislain B. D. Aïhounton","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i1.751","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i1.751","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000\u0000In this study we analyse the impact of weather forecasts provided to smallholder maize farmers through mobile phone short message service on self-reported labour costs, crop yield and income. We conducted a pilot field experiment, involving 331 randomly selected eligible farmers in six villages. Randomisation was done at the village level. We used three regression specifications to estimate the impacts: Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Generalised Estimating Equations (GEE) with a small sample correction and Randomisation Inference (RI). We found that the treatment and control groups were well balanced. Farmers in the treatment group recorded lower labour costs but higher crop yield and income levels. Both the direction and the magnitude of the impact estimates were consistent across the three regression specifications, but significant with the RI model only (for labour costs and yield) or the RI and GEE models (for income). Weather forecasts can have an impact on smallholder farmers’ labour, yield and income. These findings are strong evidence of the possibility of using weather-related information and mobile phones to build smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate variability. Yet more research is required to build a solid evidence base to inform agricultural policies.\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000\u0000Rosaine N. Yegbemey, Laboratoire d’Analyse et de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Economiques et Sociales (LARDES), Faculté d’Agronomie, Université de Parakou, Bénin. Email: ynerice@gmail.com; rosaine.yegbemey@fa-up.bj\u0000Aline M. Aloukoutou, Bureau de Recherche et de Développement en Agriculture (Breda-ONG). Email: alma_aline@yahoo.com\u0000Ghislain B. D. Aïhounton, Laboratoire d’Analyseet de Recherches sur les Dynamiques Economiques et Sociales (LARDES), Faculté d’Agronomie, Université de Parakou, Bénin. Email: aihountong@gmail.com\u0000\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44391869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"3 - Dimensions of University Governance and Community Relations in Ghana","authors":"Edmond Akwasi Agyeman, E. Tamanja, B. Bingab","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i1.746","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i1.746","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000This article examines the dimensions of university governance and community relations among five public universities in Ghana. It focuses on how the universities exercise their corporate social responsibility within the communities where they are located. Place building theory was used for analysis. Key informant interviews were conducted within the research areas. Findings from the study show that there are agitations from the universities’ host communities demanding greater social responsibility and engagement. However, whereas some of the universities have developed an interdependent orientation, others have adopted an independent perspective with respect to their surrounding communities. The article recommends that a multi- stakeholder approach involving the universities, surrounding communities, government institutions and other third sector organisations is required to address the developmental needs of the communities. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Edmond Akwasi Agyeman, University of Education, Winneba. Email: kwasikyei2004@hotmail.com; eaagyeman@uew.edu.gh \u0000 Emmanuel M. J. Tamanja, University of Education, Winneba. Email: etamanja13@gmail.com; etamanja@uew.edu.gh \u0000Bernard B. B. Bingab, University of Education, Winneba. Email: bbingab@googlemail.com \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45150233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1 - La révolution verte au Rwanda : au-delà de la dichotomie domination et émancipation","authors":"Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i1.744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i1.744","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000Cet article étudie la résistance aux prescriptions dominantes des politiques agricoles développées en Afrique dans le cadre de la nouvelle révolution verte promue depuis le début des années 2000. L’article part de l’étude de cas du Rwanda, un pays considéré comme le success-story de cette révolution verte en Afrique. Il étudie la manière dont la résistance s’y manifeste par rapport aux prescriptions de cette politique agricole. L’article montre que les actes de résistance y sont nombreux et de plus en plus documentés par la littérature dans le domaine du développement rural post-génocide au Rwanda. Cependant, il montre aussi une limite : cette littérature se concentre sur la dichotomie domination/émancipation ou encore pouvoir/résistance par rapport à la norme. Or, cette vision dichotomique entre le pouvoir et la résistance ignore comment, dans la performance même de la norme, la vie des corps – que la norme assujettit – a une agencéité qui peut permettre de subvertir cette norme. Finalement, le cas du Rwanda permettra de montrer qu’en plein conformisme, consciente ou inconsciente de la norme, la résistance est possible grâce à un pouvoir que la vie des corps a sur les normes qui les assujettissent. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Aymar Nyenyezi Bisoka, Assistant professor, Université de Mons, Belgique. Email: aymar.nyenyezi@gmail.com; aymar.nyenyezibisoka@umons.ac.be \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42254799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"7 - Wars as Postcolonial African Illness in Uzodinma Iweala's Beasts of No Nation","authors":"O. Osiki, S. Owonibi, O. Ojedokun","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i1.750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i1.750","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000There has always been a war somewhere in the world among Homo sapiens, allegedly the most advanced species in the universe. In Africa, right on the heels of colonialism and the celebration of independence loom the devastation and desolation of war. It is not a sweeping statement to conclude that everywhere colonialism has touched in Africa and let go, ruthless tribal wars have followed suit. The thematic preoccupation of the post-war literature is the training of children, mostly boys, to kill, in the form of the phenomenon of the ‘child soldier’. This article argues that one of the extreme cases of geopolitical illness that Africa suffers is the prominence of war in the turbulent journeys of her nation-states to nationhood. The article also examines the psychological implications of wars and bloodshed on the lives of children, who ought to be protected, which results in illness behaviours. We explore these themes with close reference to Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Omon Osiki, Department of History and Strategic Studies, University of Lagos, Nigeria. Email: omonosiki@gmail.com \u0000Sola Owonibi, Department of English Studies, Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria. Email: solaowonibi@gmail.com; olaowonibi@gmail.com \u0000Oluyinka Ojedokun, Department of Pure & Applied Psychology, Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria. Email: yinkaoje2004@yahoo.com; inkaoje2004@yahoo.com \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48690562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zahraa McDonald, Y. Sayed, Tarryn de Kock, Nimi Hoffmann
{"title":"2 - Acquiring Pedagogic Authority While Learning to Teach","authors":"Zahraa McDonald, Y. Sayed, Tarryn de Kock, Nimi Hoffmann","doi":"10.57054/ad.v46i1.745","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v46i1.745","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 \u0000The quality of an education system and the quality of its teachers and teaching are interconnected. Learning to teach and teach meaningfully and equitably is a core priority of education reforms. In this article we reflect on what the process of learning to teach might mean for teachers in an education system. We ask how and to what extent initial teacher education mitigates and reduces education inequities. In particular, we examine the relationship between teaching practice as a core component of initial teacher education and education inequities. The article draws on data examining the nature of student teachers’ experiences of teaching practice in the Western Cape of South Africa. We argue that the data illustrates that teaching practice does indeed invest future teachers with pedagogic authority. As such, it does indeed legitimate the position of student teachers in the classroom and within the education system, albeit with varying and differentiated outcomes for equity. \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000 \u0000Zahraa McDonald, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Email: zahraamcdonald@hotmail.com \u0000Yusuf Sayed, University of Sussex and Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Email: sayed.cite@gmail.com \u0000Tarryn de Kock, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), South Africa. Email: tarryngabidekock@gmail.com \u0000Nimi Hoffmann, University of Sussex and Cape Peninsula University of Technology. Email: nimi.hoffmann@gmail.com \u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":39851,"journal":{"name":"Africa Development/Afrique et Developpement","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43245104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}