Covering Post-Conflict Elections: Challenges for the Media in Central Africa

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

Challenges for forest conservation in Gabon, Central Africa

In recent decades, large expanses of tropical rainforest in central and western Africa have been cleared, logged, fragmented, and overhunted. In contrast, extensive forest in Gabon has survived in a relatively intact condition because the country has a sparse population and substantial petroleum and mineral deposits that have reduced economic pressures on forests. Unfortunately, Gabon’s petrole...

Conflict Resolution by Elders in Africa: Successes, Challenges and Opportunities

Francis Kariuki* Abstract Colonialism impacted the social, cultural, political and economic aspects of Africans in the most fundamental and radical way. With colonialism, a western legal tradition premised upon an Anglo-American jurisprudential thought was imposed on Africans. African values, norms and beliefs, which provided the normative and undergirding framework for conflict resolution, wer...

Plight of Children in Conflict and Post – Conflict Societies: the Case of Africa

Gender Violence and HIV/AIDS in Post-Conflict West Africa