African Traditional Sculpture and Aesthetic Realism

Linking African Traditional Medicine Knowledge

African Traditional Medicine (ATM) is widely used in Africa as the first-line of treatment thanks to its accessibility and affordability. However, the lack of formalization of this knowledge can lead to safety issues and malpractice. This paper investigates a possible contribution of the Semantic Web in realizing the formalization and integration of ATM with data on conventional medicine (CM). ...

Traditional African Cereal Grains - Overview

INTRODUCTION Africa is the centre of origin and still today the major producing area for several cereal crops, notably sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, teff, fonio and African rice. These traditional African cereals are sometimes called “Orphan Crops”, or even “Lost Crops” (National Research Council, 1996). This is despite the fact that they are staple foods for millions of people in the s...

Reviewing AFRICAN TRADITIONAL LEADERSHIP ROLES

African Traditional Thought and Western Science

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Virtual Sculpture

We propose here a sculpture metaphor for rapid shape prototyping. This metaphor makes the underlying surface description transparent for the user, enabling him to focus only on the shape being modeled. Our approach is based on implicit surfaces defined as iso-surfaces over a discrete field.