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Description:: Review of: Chris Duke (ed.). Combating poverty through adult education. London: Croom Helm, 1985
Date Issued:: 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Description:: Following independence a number of African states were content to seek protection under the security umbrella of an external power. The end of the cold war has called this clientelism sharply into question, facilitating a variety of challenges to the political hegemony of the state and the emergence at the same time of new and diffuse forms of force, wielded by private as well as official entrepreneurs of violence. Liberalisation and state weakness have encouraged a growing private market in security, making possible novel ways of articulating political, commercial, and military agendas. The resulting "crisis of security" is forcing both state and non-state, domestic and external actors to rethink security concepts and architectures, in cooperation as well as competition with each other.
Date Issued:: 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: African Journal of Political Science

Description:: Review of: Miral El Tahawi. The tent (translated from Arabic by Anthony Calderbank). Cairo: American University in Cairo press, 1998
Date Issued:: 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Glendora Books Supplement

Description:: This examines the 'domination hypothesis' of the critical/conflict theories, vis-a-vis the structural functional perspective. It tries to put the two perspectives side by side and show how they stand up to objective analysis, and/or are related to each other. It also draws attention to the time-honoured view of many communication scholars that analysis of the power of the mass media should not be predicated on the principle of "all or nothing", that the media are not all-dominating; neither are they all-liberating; that the media can be used for good or for evil, depending on the socio-political, economic and cultural environments in which they operate. This requires an examination of the relationship between economic and socio-political power structure and mass media utilization as well as the impact of this relationship on the effect of the media on the public.
Date Issued:: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Collection:: Africa Media Review

Description:: The author initially considers the severe development crisis of the African continent which urgently needs the attention of policy makers, planners and frontline workers. A discussion is then presented on how the methodologies of social development and social work: converging as human focused development can assist in ameliorating this situation. The author notes that social workers are trained to deal at a systems level with social problems and that social workers are capable of playing multiple roles at both community and agency levels. As such the author calls for greater recognition of the social work profession in tackling major problems of development.
Date Issued:: 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: Journal of Social Development in Africa