On the Social Responsiveness of an Institution, of people within an institution. Not only in response to TRANSFORMATION which seems to be the elephant in the room - even when it's being directly discussed - but also more generally coming up with an institutional model which supports social action. Of course, social action is mandated both by the University's mission and by the government which funds it. However, if social action interupts the speed of publishing for a young academic, that social action is effectively punished in hiring & promotion practices. Same with contract research or services collaborating with NGOs in applied research and/or assessment. So it's been suggested to amend the holy trinity (RESEARCH, Service, teaching) to add social responsiveness.

Or promoting a particular political agenda? This would be tabu in the US. But it's a fact of life here. We have an agenda. What about those academics in fields where the research is not directly relevant to TRANSFORMATION? Short answer: everything in ZA is related to transformation. Long answer: They can do community service. The Kenyan academics gave her a little bit of hell - UCT has increased fees 10% a year. What kind of social responsiveness is that? In fact, the increase in black students has been largely populated by blacks from other African nations - not poor South African blacks. The gov't mandated a certain change in racial dynamic, but also capped the size of the University and restricted the number of need-based scholarships. UCT is one of, if not THE premier university in Africa.

We are not just a transformation-enabling institution - we must also maintain our status and bring ZA and larger Africa up to this academic standard. But we must also be a leader in this field. One issue is that of curriculum - not so much in geology per say, more of an issue in social science or engineering or architecture. Some examples include the selection of specialties that should be represented in hiring in the archeology department. The old guard was heavy on European Greek/Roman focus - maybe that should shift as they retire. Not all to South African, but maybe more Egyptian, Arabic, all over African.

But there are those that consider the "classical" education top priority, and the best job prospects are still going to be overseas - for a long time. So if the architecture curriculum follows what's "cutting edge" globally, they are setting their graduates up to move to Europe or America. Anyway to bring it all home - my 12 students are: 4 white, 2 Indian (maybe one of them is Pakastani? not sure), 1 Colored, 5 Black. I forget the other one. They are 7 women and 5 men. They are darling and I gave them a doozy of a practical this week (Mohr circles, stereonets & stress, X-section construction). Have a good weekend kids! Too much to think about. Must start again with new post.

His writings have also appeared in Al Jazeera, as well as The New York Times and The Guardian. Juma served on the jury of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, among others, and was elected to several scientific academies, including the Royal Society of London and the US National Academy of Sciences. Tributes also flowed in from politicians, journalists, celebrities and academics. Africa, Let us honour our great teacher @calestous by working towards & achieving African integration. Let us transform agriculture & see a food secure & thriving continent. When heroes who leave marks and footprints wherever they step on pass on, they are never forgotten.

The world lost yet another intellectual giant, Professor @Calestous Juma. ByAfricans. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. Shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Havard Professor @calestous Juma. It is with deep sadness that I received the news of the passing of the distinguished Kenyan scholar Prof. Calestous Juma, who helped build the country's profile across the globe. We pray for and mourn with his family, students and the entire Harvard University fraternity. Not unexpected, but still desperately sad. RIP Calestous Juma - you taught us much and we are grateful for it. Your constant good humour and intellectual honesty will be missed by all. Really shocked and saddened this morning to hear that Kenyan Professor @calestous has passed away. I'll miss our exchanges about Africa, and his lively mind. Rest In Peace my friend. R.I.P. my friend @calestous Juma, your wise counsel and insightful contribution to academia will surely be missed. We'll hold down the fort in your absence in a bid to make the world a better place. Till we meet again Brother.

She was not expected to act that way. An African woman is supposed to keep quiet and be deaf and dumb. Speaking out against perceived injustices is not her fort. It is sad that Wangari Maathai, who rejected that stereotype and spent the better part of her life trying to make our planet a better habitat, is no more. The dark-skinned Kenyan professor, who died on Sunday last week at the age of 71, was a true African daughter who channeled her energy towards doing the general good. Maathai’s milk of human kindness was spread far and wide in the course of promoting her beliefs.

This woman, whom some called the Tree Mother of Africa, campaigned for the preservation of the environment for the sustainability of the species. She believed that a healthy environment helped improve lives by providing clean water and firewood for cooking, thereby decreasing conflict. Concerned for the abject condition in which all species live in Africa, she founded the Green Belt Movement, which planted 30 million trees in the hope of improving the chances for peace. This triumph for nature inspired the United Nations to launch a worldwide campaign that resulted in 11 billion trees planted. Even though the Green Belt Movement started as an environmental sanity group, Maathai expanded it to accommodate issues of peace and democracy. She explained that over time it became clear to her that responsible governance of the environment was not possible without democracy. “Therefore, the tree became a symbol for the democratic struggle in Kenya.

Citizens were mobilised to challenge widespread abuses of power, corruption and environmental mismanagement,” Maathai said. Was she wasting her time? The biggest destroyers of the human ecology - governments and Big Business - didn’t care. But, still, we as individuals - each one of us - have a role to play in making our habitat safe and long-lasting. If we fold our arms, the dangers posed by the depreciation of the habitat and corruption through our reckless activities would soon catch up with us. Maathai explains this better in the film, ‘Dirt! The Movie,’ where she narrates the story of a hummingbird carrying one drop of water at a time to fight a forest fire, while animals like the elephant asked why the bird was wasting its energy.

“It turns to them and tells them, ‘I’m doing the best I can.’ And that to me is what all of us should do. We should always feel like a hummingbird,” Maathai said. “I certainly don’t want to be like the animals watching as the planet goes down the drain. I will be a hummingbird. Not surprisingly, for this ‘unAfrican crime’ of a woman confronting those big destroyers, she soon began to pay a price. The then dictatorial President of Kenya, Daniel arap Moi, called her “a mad woman” who was a threat to national security. She was beaten up and vilified, and her husband threw out. Maathai’s determination of continuing to live her beliefs did not go in vain, though. Her work was recognised by governments, organisations and institutions, as well as individuals, all over the world. She received many accolades and awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first African woman to to do so. The question, however, is whether we will put this knowledge to use. Should we still continue to behave like those silly animals whose forest has caught fire, their habitat being inexorably consumed by the conflagration? Or should we act like the tiny bird which decided to give its widow’s mite towards containing the catastrophe? Your guess about where I stand is as good as mine, courtesy of the fact that Wangari Maathai was once here on this planet.

Kenyan lecturers in public universities launched a strike to protest what they call government’s continued failure to implement a March deal to boost salaries and housing allowances. Wednesday’s strike piles pressure on government after a strike by nurses in public hospitals over the past few months paralysed health care services countrywide. MUT SPAS worsens the plight of more than half a million students in 31 public universities, since the lecturers ended a 54-day strike over pay in February and signed a pact with the government in March. “All academic staff at the 31 public universities are on strike from November 1,” Constantine Wasonga, secretary general of the University Academic Staff Union, said in a statement. The agreement provided for a pay hike of 17.5% and an increase of 3.9% in house allowances. Government officials were not immediately available to comment. 11,571.84) a month, including allowances, said Justine Musila of the parliamentary watchdog website Mzalendo. By contrast, lecturers’ basic salaries range from 69,000 shillings to 200,000 shillings each month, before allowances. A newly-qualified doctor typically earns about 156,000 shillings a month.

Most of the Natural landmarks in Kenya date back to the ancient period. Some historic landmarks are natural while others are man-made. The following are some of the important natural historic landmarks in Kenya. 1. The Menengai Crater located in the Great Rift Valley is so impressive to visit. This crater, which is about 12 kilometers wide and 500m high is an incredible site for mountain hikers. The local people believe the crater hosts evil spirits. A part from this, the crater was a battle field for the Masai and the Ilaikipiak communities. The crater was a grave site for those men defeated in battle.

2. The Mau Mau caves in the Abedare National Park were the hiding place for the freedom fighters during the colonial rule. Mau Mau refers to the Kikuyu warriors who rebelled harsh rules from the white people. They spent most of their time in the forest to avoid from killed by armed white soldiers. Many Mau Mau fighters lost their lives in a rebellion war in 1959. Some of the Mau Mau leaders were the late Fred Kubai, Dedan Kimathi and many others. 3. Mount Kenya (5,199m) is the second highest peak in Africa and Kenya's highest peak. The free-standing mountain is situated in the Central province just near the equator. This mountain has three peaks namely, Batian, Nelion and Lenana.

The highest peak is only reached by technical climbers. The other two peaks are easy for any mountain climber. Mount Kenya snow-capped on its peak all the year-round. This mountain was a sacred place for Kikuyu community who strongly believed that their God (Ngai) lived on the mountain. A part from climbing the mountain, this is an ideal place for game viewing and bird watching. 4. The old Fort Jesus in Mombasa was built by the Portuguese in the 16th century. This building was a port and slavery trading center. The rule over the Indian Ocean coast line was from different nationality such as the Arabs, Portuguese and the British.

Today, this building is used as a museum where historic artifacts, crafts and pictures are displayed. 5. Kenya is known as the "Cradle of Mankind". Over 200 fossils of the early man were discovered by the Leakey's on the Olduvai Gorge in Turkana region. This is the home to the Turkana and the Masai community who are famous for maintaining their cultures. 6. Lake Victoria in East Africa is the second largest fresh water lake in the world and the largest in Africa. Shared between the three East African countries, this lake is ideal for fishing. Lake Victoria is the source of river Nile. 7. Mombasa is the second largest town in Kenya. It is a beautiful and busy shopping center, especially for visitors travelling to the coastal sand beaches along the Indian Ocean coastline. Swahili is the most commonly used language and English is also widely spoken by the local people. Mombasa has a mixture of foreign and local culture and majority of the people are Muslims. 8. Nairobi is the capital city of Kenya. It is a business center with government buildings such as the Parliament, State House and the Kenyatta International Conference Center (KICC). The Uhuru Park, Nairobi University and the Nairobi Museum are all situated in Nairobi.

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North Korea may possibly carry out a new missile test, as brisk activity has been spotted at its research facilities, South Korea’s spy agency said on Thursday, the South’s Yonhap News Agency reported. A group of pro-independence lawmakers in Scotland have presented a motion calling for international recognition of Catalonia’s parliamentary vote for independence from Spain, putting pressure on Scotland’s leader to endorse the movement. The British government is to impose a budget on Northern Ireland for the first time in a decade, a major step toward imposing direct rule after attempts to form a power-sharing government in Belfast collapsed.

Niger Defense Minister Asks U.S. Niger has asked the United States to start using armed drones against jihadist groups operating on the Mali border, raising the stakes in a counter-insurgency campaign jolted by a deadly ambush of allied U.S.-Nigerien forces. Filipino lawyers on Thursday announced a broad alliance to challenge President Rodrigo Duterte’s 16-month war on drugs amid unprecedented scrutiny of the campaign in which more than 3,900 mostly urban, poor Filipinos have been killed. Indian authorities on Thursday ordered an inquiry to determine within seven days the cause of a blast at a coal-fired power plant that killed 26 people and injured more than 100-one of the country’s worst industrial accidents in years. A senior Israeli minister on Thursday declined to comment on reports that Israeli aircraft had struck a target in Syria the night before but repeated a threat to hit arms shipments to Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas. Kenyan lecturers in public universities have launched a strike to protest against what they call the government’s continued failure to implement a March deal to boost salaries and housing allowances. Eight members of Turkey’s security forces and five Kurdish militants were killed in a clash early on Thursday near the border between northern Iraq and southeast Turkey, security and hospital sources said. A visa program aimed at diversifying the U.S.

It is time to pray for Kenya in a very serious manner. I am coming to you this way because of a collage of conversations that I have had with the LORD and all of them when you listen carefully to have a common theme, and that is, pain, discomfort, and terrorism. And again for the fourth time, this night in the coastal city of Kenya, the LORD Has spoken with me in a very serious manner regarding what lies ahead if the nation does not commit to His ways. The LORD took me somewhere in this country, in a very long conversation.

He took me to a learning institution, it looks like Nairobi University. We walked into the dormitories and places where the students live. He then brought me back to a field and I see a riot breaks out. The LORD then told me by voice, " Architectural Science students". And so the young people in this learning institution become disorderly and to my amazement, I see they have guns, some had improvised automatics rifles and begin firing. It looked as if they were firing against each other. And so I have seen serious chaos erupt in learning institutions and it will be difficult to control there in that place the students too have guns and they are firing. However, the LORD again will watch over and protect the righteous. In all these conversations, I have seen Him protect those who walk right. May those who want to, pray for the country and its leadership.

In the run-up to the G8 summit meeting in Italy from 8-10 July, African science leaders are counting the cost of unfulfilled commitments to their continent made at previous G8 meetings. Mohamed Hassan, executive director of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) in Trieste, Italy, and president of the African Academy of Sciences. The agenda of this year's G8 summit, which is being held in the earthquake-ravaged town of L'Aquila, renews the focus on Africa, with goals such as tackling the effects of climate change and safeguarding biodiversity on the continent. Yet support for African science is unlikely to be a priority for discussion, says Hassan. At a G8 satellite meeting on science and international development, organized by TWAS and the Italian foreign ministry and held on 26 June in Trieste, the focus was firmly on Afghanistan.

The delegates agreed that international science academies should work with Afghanistan's science ministry to establish a development plan for the coming decade. 500 million a year over 10 years to strengthen universities, as recommended by the Commission for Africa in 2005. But Hassan says that some of the blame must rest with the African nations. Tensions over who should be responsible for African science-and-technology aid have certainly hampered progress, says Wickstead. 26-million) grant from the Canadian government. 4.2 million) and Finland €400,000 to bioscience initiatives in Africa. But he adds that the contribution from G8 nations has been small in comparison to what was promised, and that the networks could face tough times if they are not able to secure longer-term funding. Calestous Juma, a Kenyan professor of international development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says that a better forum is now needed for discussions about harnessing science for African development. If the momentum generated by Tony Blair before Gleneagles bore little fruit, he says, it is unlikely that a less-engaged Italian leadership will be able to achieve much. Although progress on the G8 commitments to science has been slow, other forums are moving forwards.

Africa Nazarene University is a member of the worldwide family of Nazarene institutions founded on the same principles - the development of students in a strong spiritual environment. Character - Explore your faith for living. Competence - Achieve your goals for your career. Community - Find your place in the world. Africa Nazarene University's vision is to be a light to the people of Africa through higher education grounded in the Wesleyan-Holiness tradition. Africa Nazarene University, will be the University of choice for Christians desiring academic excellence, and will produce individuals of character and integrity of heart. Africa Nazarene University will be a place where lives will be transformed for service and leadership to make a difference in Africa and the world. In the early 1980s, the challenges that the Nazarene Church saw in Africa demanded setting up a training facility for the clergy.

As a result, the Church set out to establish an institution of higher education. During the Africa-wide search for a choice location, the Kenya 1985 Universities Act--provision for establishment of a private university--provided a ready answer. In 1985, the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene established an education commission to plan for the development of Nazarene education facilities around the world. This move set the stage for the Kenya venture. The church leaders began negotiations with the Commission for Higher Education in Kenya to establish a degree-awarding institution. After consideration of the Churchs request, the Commission advised the church to open a liberal arts institution.

The foundation for the development of Africa Nazarene University was thus laid. In 1987, from the middle of the great Maasai savannah, with giraffes and antelopes grazing in the background, Dr. Harmon Schmelzenbach envisaged an expansive Christian university for students from different parts of the continentAfrica Nazarene University. Seventy acres of land were bought, and preparations for its development were made. The Commission for Higher Education advised that a Board of Trustees be established to guarantee the autonomy of the University from the State or another body. The next major step in ANUs development was the preparation of a proposal for the University, which was done by a sub-committee of eight prominent Kenyan professors headed by Prof. John Marangu.

After three years of hard work, development, discussion and revision, the Letter of Interim Authority to operate a University was granted by the Commission for Higher Education. On the 23rd of November 1993, ANU became the first institution to seek a charter under the new University Act. With Dr. Martha John as the Vice-Chancellor, ANU opened its doors in August 1994 with 63 pioneer students taking courses in Theology, Business Administration, and a Master of Arts degree in Religion. In August 1995, a Bachelor of Science Degree program in Computer Science was added with 42 students. Since the beginning, ANU has endeavored to fulfill its mission by providing quality education, facilitating worthwhile activities and guiding students in the values of serving God and mankind. ANUs first graduation took place in 1998 and by the last graduation ceremony held on 21st May 2004, 459 students, many of whom have established their own enterprises and become employers, have passed through the institution. It is gratifying to note that ANUs vision of being a light to the people of Africa by providing higher education is being realized through our well-trained graduates who are adequately prepared to face the challenges of their time. We give all the glory to God.