[…] California just voted on a ballot measure, called Proposition 30, which proposed to increase sales and income taxes to be allocated to public schools. An amazing 54 percent of Californians voted to pass the measure, but hold onto your seats, because Berkeley actually voted 90 percent approval of the tax hikes. As much as Johnson [...]

From China to Costa Rica, from Mali to Malaysia acclaimed singers and musicians, women and men, have come together to spread a message of unity and solidarity: We are “One Woman”.[...]

1. Ecoutez le texte audio de Mme Diakité à propos des manifestations d’étudiants à Dakar.
2. Consult the following Langaa book available from African Books Collective or Amazon: “University Crisis and Student Protests in Africa”

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SESSION 3 : Développent de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique et création d’un espace africain de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche.
Cette session présidée par le Professeur Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye, Président de l’ANSTS s’est déroulée sous la forme d’une table ronde, et a enregistré les interventions de plusieurs personnalités.

One what? A book! Leave one where? In a little street box library, in Brooklyn, New York. But only one that is “imminently readable.” Meaning these new libraries are not places to “dump” unwanted textbooks, for example. Rather, they’re places where readers, without even knowing one another, share treasures with one another. I took a book [...]

The act of giving is an age-old tradition in Africa, and recent economic gains have fuelled a philanthropy boom on the continent. But while philanthropic funding from the developing world is a staple for research activity in Africa, home-grown givers have yet to channel their money towards research. This may yet change. African policymakers are working on an African science and technology fund supported by gifts from the continent’s businesses. But progress on the initiative has been slow, and some experts think that a lack of science and technology funding from the country’s government is holding back development.

Le RADI, en partenariat avec le CRDI a organisé un atelier national de restitution des résultats «provisoires» de l‘étude sur l’«Effectivité des droits économiques des femmes au Sahel : cas du droit à l’eau à usage agricole en Mauritanie, au Niger et au Sénégal». A cette occasion, Kathryn Touré, Directrice régionale Bureau régional pour l’Afrique [...]

Research Institutes in South Asia, Latin America and Africa have received a grant worth US$110 m from the Think Tank Initiative. Twenty three of these countries benefiting from the grant are from Africa including eleven from West and Central Africa. Elisabeth-Laure Njipwo spoke with Kathryn Toure, the West and Central Africa Regional Director for the International Development Research Center, IDRC.

Students told me that things are “different” at AIMS. I asked them what they meant. One young woman student explained that “we get inside the problem.”
                “What do you mean,” I asked?
                “I used to find the answer, without understanding the problem. Now I know how to get inside a problem, take it apart and understand it. Once I have done that, I can go to bed. I know that in the morning I will be able to solve the problem because I understand it.”
                So many of us try to “solve” problems without first understanding them. Will AIMS students use the approaches they are learning to “get inside” and tackle the challenges of the continent?