Events
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Christmas Party 2009 - Tuesday, 15th December 2009 Africa Research Institute launched it's latest paper Going Public: How Africa's integration can work for the poor. The publication considers half a century of efforts to advance Africa's integration - a process often hamstrung by a surfeit of competing ambitions and lack of political will. The authors argue that regional integration in Africa needs new direction - it's overriding purpose must be to reduce poverty. For too long policymakers have placed disproportionate emphasis on the creation of larger trading blocs. Regional public goods, whether publicly or privately funded, are a more effective way to help the poor. Speakers: - Jeggan C. Senghor, lead author of Going Public and senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. - Desmond Davies, director of African Prospects. Music by Grupo Lokito. read more |
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Summer Party - Wednesday, 8th July 2009 Africa Research Institute launched two new publications in the Policy Voices Series at its summer party: - Nursing the Future: e-Learning and clinical care, in Kenya by Angela Nguku, chronicles the evolution of e-learning among nurses in Kenya. From her perspective as coordinator of the AMREF Virtual Nursing School in Nairobi, she charts both the obstacles - a shortage of qualified tutors, the scarcity of clinical placements - and the priorities to overcome them. - In Kenya's Flying Vegetables: Small farmers and the 'food miles' debate, James Gikunju Muuru makes the first detailed responnse by an African smallholder to the controversy over 'food miles'. His account describes the serial feats of coordination, discipline, productivity and manual labour which make Kenyan horticulture competitive in global markets. Speakers: - Angela Nguku, coordinator of AMREF's Virtual Nursing School in Nairobi and author of Nursing the Future. - Dr Stephen Mbithi, chief executive of the Fresh Produce Exporters' Association of Kenya, and contributor to Kenya's Flying Vegetables. Guests were served canapes of Kenyan vegetables. Live music was by Linos Magaya and Tim Lloyd playing the southern African Mbira. read more |
