Abstract The MDP (Millennium Development Project) goals are so admirable as to be difficult to challenge. Difficult questions arise over how they are to be achieved. The secular process of implementation being attempted unfortunately does not translate well into ‘holistic’Read more…
Importance of Using Indigenous Languages in Africa
This contains many references to and quotes from the paper: The local language – a neglected resource for sustainable development by Thomas Bearth, 2004, found at: http://www.inst.at/trans/15Nr/06_4/bearth15.htm Introduction, I found this paper by Bearth to be extremely insightfulRead more…
About African belief in ‘Spirits’
To say that African people believe in spirits can be misleading. I am not sure if they know what ‘spirits’ are. ‘Spirit’ is, after all, an English word; but even native English speakers, if asked ‘what is a spirit’, oftenRead more…