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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION IN SOUTH AFRIC...
Why do we need to communicate science? Is science, with its highly specialised language and its arcane methods, too distant to be understood by the public? Is it really possible for citizens to participate meaningfully in scientific research projects and debate? Should scientists be mandated to engage with the public to facilitate better understanding of science? How can they best communicate their special knowledge to be intelligible? These and a plethora of related questions are being raised by researchers and politicians alike as they have become convinced that science and society need to draw nearer to one another.
Once the persuasion took hold that science should open up to the public and these questions were raised, it became clear that coming up with satisfactory answers would be a complex challenge. The inaccessibility of scientific language and methods, due to ever increasing specialisation, is at the base of its very success. Thus, translating specialised knowledge to become understandable, interesting and relevant to various publics creates particular perils. This is exacerbated by the ongoing disruption of the public discourse through the digitisation of communication platforms. For example, the availability of medical knowledge on the internet and the immense opportunities to inform oneself about health risks via social media are undermined by the manipulable nature of this technology that does not allow its users to distinguish between credible content and misinformation.
In countries around the world, scientists, policy-makers and the public have high hopes for science communication: that it may elevate its populations educationally, that it may raise the level of sound decision-making for people in their daily lives, and that it may contribute to innovation and economic well-being. This collection of current reflections gives an insight into the issues that have to be addressed by research to reach these noble goals, for South Africa and by South Africans in particular.
Ganacsiga Caalamiga Ah: Dhoofinta and...
Buuggan "Ganacsiga Caalamiga ah" waa kii ugu horreeyey ee ku qoran Af Soomaali inta aan ka war-qabo. Isirka Soomaalida waxaa lagu tiriyaa dadka ugu firfircoon dhanka dhaqdhaqaaqa ganacsiga. Waxaa aad u badan Soomaali ganacsiyo ku saleysan soo-dejin (imports) iyo dhoofin (exports) ku leh ama uga furan yihiin meelo badan oo adduunka ah, sida Afrika, Aasiya iyo Bariga Dhexe.
Sidaa darteed, buuggani waa mid loogu talo galay cid kasta oo dadkaa ka mid ah ama danaynaysa in ay ka bilowdo gacansi ku saleysan soo-dejin iyo badeeco. Wuxuu kale oo anfacayaa ardeyda dugsiyada iyo jaamacadaha wax ka barta, gaar ahaan kulliyadaha ganacsiga iyo dhaqaalaha iwm; sarriflayaa-sha iyo bangiyada, kaargooyinka, iyo weliba xawilaadlayaasha, iyo cid kasta oo daneyneysa in ay wax ka fahanto dhoofinta iyo soo-dejinta badeecadaha iyo waxa looga baahan yahay.
Macluumaadka buuggan waxaa laga soo ururiyey aqoonta lagu dhigo jaamacadaha iyo maxadyada sare oo lagu darey khibradda iyo aqoonta qoraagu u leeyahay ganacsiyada caalamiga ah
Surviving the Lean Seasons by Getrude...
Swimming Against The Current by Felis...
Amílcar Cabral The Life of a Reluctan...
On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amílcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. The insurgents were Bissau-Guineans, aiming to get rid of the Cape Verdeans who dominated the party elite.
Despite Cabral’s assassination, Portuguese Guinea became the independent Republic of Guinea-Bissau. The guerrilla war that Cabral had started and led precipitated a chain of events that would lead to the 1974 Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, toppling the forty-year-old authoritarian regime. This paved the way for the rest of Portugal’s African colonies to achieve independence.
Written by a native of Angola, this biography narrates Cabral’s revolutionary trajectory, from his early life in Portuguese Guinea to his death at the hands of his own men. It details his quest for national sovereignty, beleaguered by the ethnic-based identity conflicts the national liberation movement struggled to overcome. Through the life of Cabral, António Tomás critically reflects on existing ways of thinking and writing about the independence of Lusophone Africa.
Relationship Secret Codes by Nelly Ga...
Let’s talk about what a relationship actually is, since the majority of people blindly want, crave and chase the idea of having a relationship and yet, very few actually understand some essential points about what a relationship is…
A relationship is not a possession, like a stone or a purse or a car. A relationship is not a thing at all. A relationship is simply the interaction you’re having with that person as it’s happening and the general, overall tone of your interactions.
A relationship simply is.
Society doesn’t see relationships this way, for the most part. Our society tries to make relationships into a thing – a thing that can be worked on, fixed or broken. Lost or gained. Had or not had.
Relationships are living and experienced in-the-moment, like music.
A song is a song as it’s playing. If it’s sitting on your MP3 player and you’re not playing it, then it is simply data. You can say you have the song or own it, but saying you have a song on your iPod has nothing to do with your experience of the song as it’s playing.
I don’t care if you have a million songs on your iPod. If you’re not listening to the music, you’re not experiencing music.
Yes, I realize I’m speaking in metaphors, so let me tie this up: I don’t care if you have a relationship. I don’t care if you have a title like “boyfriend” or “husband” for your guy. The title is not the relationship. Your having of them is not your relationship – it is simply a thought in your head, completely irrelevant to the on-going music of your relationship.
So if the “music” of your relationship is a bitter, hateful ballad of pain and inner suffering… you need to change your tune, so to speak.
No Brainer (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book...
Up until now, middle school hasn’t exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he’s not too broken up about it.
But when Greg realizes this means he’s going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune.
Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it’s shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?
A Short History of Desperation by Dom...
Title of Book: A short History of Desperation
Author: Dominic Walubengo
Publisher: Dominic Walubengo
Genre: Fiction
Year of Publication: 2023
Town and Country: Nairobi, Kenya
ISBN: 978-9914-49-643-7
Number of pages: 115
Illustrations: Pencil
Covers: Paperback
In this book, everyone has something that makes him or her desperate. The book offers the reader a short history of desperation. It invites the reader to think deeply about what it means to be desperate and how a person becomes desperate. Desperation is the feeling that arises when one is in a bad situation and is willing to try anything to change it. This feeling is characterized by impetuosity, recklessness, torture, and unhappiness.
How To Help The Boy Child by Wilson M...
Sunset in the Savannah by David Ole M...
Sunset in the Savannah is an absorbing story of the determination of one young man, Lesalon, to succeed in life no matter what. It captures his life journey from primary school to university. The book depicts the interesting interface between tradition, culture and modernity.
Set deep in the African Savannah, the book is bound to keep the reader glued and turning the pages from beginning to the end.
To Be True To Oneself by Morningflowe...
TRIUMPH OVER ADVERSITY by Anthony Mbu...
Have you ever had something so tragic happen in your life that made you question everything? A relentless series of events that tested your faith?
In Triumph Over Adversity, Anthony Mbuthia deep dives into the pain of being burned as a child, enduring the scars they left behind and fighting the stigma that came with those marks. He also takes us through his struggles of being separated from his family for over 5 years and the heartbreaking experience of almost losing his mother.
Through these trials and tribulations, Anthony narrates his extraordinary path to overcoming adversity, offering a compelling testament of faith's unwavering strength. His story is more than just a narrative; it's a wellspring of inspiration, a beacon of hope, and a catalyst for bolstering your faith.
Join him in "Triumph Over Adversity," and let his incredible journey serve as your source of inspiration and a faith rekindler, showing you that even in the darkest of times, triumph is possible.
The Cost of a Dream by Maxwell Kezengwa
Stamped from the Beginning: The Defin...
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis.
As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities.
In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Par...
In this new and original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of its historic end in April 1807, the parallel lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement—a trader, an owner, and a slave—are examined. John Newton (1725–1807), best known as the author of Amazing Grace, was a slave captain who marshaled his human cargoes with a brutality that he looked back on with shame and contrition.
Thomas Thistlewood (1721–86) lived his life in a remote corner of western Jamaica and his unique diary provides some of the most revealing images of a slave owner’s life in the most valuable of all British slave colonies. Olaudah Equiano (1745–97) was practically unknown 30 years ago, but is now an iconic figure in black history and his experience as a slave speaks out for lives of millions who went unrecorded.
All three men were contemporaries; they even came close to each other at different points of the Atlantic compass. But what held them together, in its destructive gravitational pull, was the Atlantic slave system.
A moving Horizon memoir by Francis Mu...
MY TENTH LIFE by Susan Ngure
This book is about navigating dangerous and treacherous journeys drawn from my experiences. It’s about that feeling and drive that I must see tomorrow. It’s about the triumph of the human spirit. It’s about cultivating and enjoying friendships. It’s about looking back and acknowledging change in oneself and being happy with who one is. Before I was mercifully ushered into what I call “MY TENTH LIFE”, I lived through nine others – just like a cat. Nine lives have taken me through the trenches of physical pain, raging storms, and harrowing paths and dug emotional scars in my soul.
However, this book is about my “MY TENTH LIFE”- the one I presently live. The one that is as good as a newborn’s, birthed and strengthened through these experiences. The one that is not devoid of pain but filled with the promise of tomorrow’s freshness.
The one unbound by a crumbling soul. The one I have been happy to choose, enjoy, and share with you. In it I give you a picture of the nine lives and why I cherish my Tenth. Hoping that through my life, you can see yourself, like a mirror. And with the experience of the Book, I hope you can be encouraged to write yours, because my story will only be complete with yours!
Toxic Charity: How Churches and Chari...
Veteran urban activist Robert Lupton reveals the shockingly toxic effects that modern charity has upon the very people meant to benefit from it. Toxic Charity provides proven new models for charitable groups who want to help—not sabotage—those whom they desire to serve. Lupton, the founder of FCS Urban Ministries (Focused Community Strategies) in Atlanta, the voice of the Urban Perspectives newsletter, and the author of Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life, has been at the forefront of urban ministry activism for forty years. Now, in the vein of Jeffrey Sachs’s The End of Poverty, Richard Stearns’s The Hole in Our Gospel, and Gregory Boyle’s Tattoos on the Heart, his groundbreaking Toxic Charity shows us how to start serving needy and impoverished members of our communities in a way that will lead to lasting, real-world change.
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really W...
Playing to Win, a noted Wall Street Journal and Washington Post bestseller, outlines the strategic approach Lafley, in close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, used to double P&G’s sales, quadruple its profits, and increase its market value by more than $100 billion when Lafley was first CEO (he led the company from 2000 to 2009). The audiobook shows leaders in any type of organization how to guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business success―where to play and how to win.
Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors. They are:
(1) What is our winning aspiration?
(2) Where will we play?
(3) How will we win?
(4) What capabilities must we have in place to win?
(5) What management systems are required to support our choices?
The result is a playbook for winning.
The stories of how P&G repeatedly won by applying this method to iconic brands such as Olay, Bounty, Gillette, Swiffer, and Febreze clearly illustrate how deciding on a strategic approach―and then making the right choices to support it―makes the difference between just playing the game and actually winning.
Playing to Win outlines a proven method that has worked for some of today’s most celebrated brands and products. Let this audiobook serve as your new guide to winning, as well.
The Art and Science of Blissful Inter...
The Art & Science of Blissful Interpersonal, Love & Marital Relationships.
Success in life entails healthy relationships: love and romantic; work and business; and family and marriage. Dating, courting and marital landscapes have evolved over time, and have resulted to conflicts and challenges between partners. Unhealthy relationships, related issues and situations like mental ill health and work-life imbalances have adverse impacts to an individual, family and work or business.
Unhealthy relationships negatively affect our overall productivity. Essential and healthy coping strategies, resilience, attitude and mindset transformation are vital skills-set for managing current and emerging challenges. This calls for psychosocial support amongst humanity; embracing self-care and wellbeing; engaging in enriching conversations; reskilling and knowledge transfer; embracing emotional intelligence and mental resilience.
‘The Art & Science of Blissful Interpersonal, Love & Marital Relationships’ has 12 interesting chapters that build on each other thus portraying love and marital relationships as a journey. The author injects diversified perspectives in the conversation and takes a practical approach in addressing real life issues affecting love and marital relationships in a fast-paced contemporary society. The last two chapters take a diversion across environmental stewardship, sustainability and climate change agenda. The author engages the reader in a discussion on sustainability and climate change; business and organizations; love and marital relationships; and how each sphere is vulnerable to climate change related risks and impacts.
The book is gender sensitive, culturally sensitive and the content is agreeable to both religious and non-religious communities. The author strongly advocates for the 8-ewellbeing dimensions to help us uphold family and marriage values; build healthier and happier interactions, families and marriages; and ultimately responsible citizens. Additionally, the author strongly embraces effective conversations and communication as a form of therapy between partners and among family members for harmonious blending.