Politics as a vocation in the African context? An African theological engagement with Max Weber

Urban expansion as a driver of biodiversity loss: Integrating biodiversity in urban planning in African context

Africa has high biodiversity and is rapidly urbanizing. However, there is limited understanding of how urban expansion in Africa is likely to affect its habitats and biodiversity. Little urban ecological research has been done in Africa. This study needs to think ahead as Africa move into the “urban age” it is critical to inform the public on the importance of urban environment...

African Jurisprudence: The Law as a Complement to Public Morality

Every society is governed by certain rules (the law), customs, norms and values; and these are intricately crucial to the maintenance of public morality. Invariably, there is a public morality which provides the cement of any human society; the law, especially the criminal law, must regard it as a primary function to reflect and maintain this public morality. Criminal Codes lay down various off...

Bioprospecting in an African context.

In the beginning, when God created the universe, the earth was formless and desolate. ...Then God commanded, "Let there be light" and light appeared....Then He commanded, "Let the earth produce all kinds of plants, those that bear grain and those that bear fruit"--and it was done. So the earth produced all kinds of plants, and God was pleased with what he saw....Then God commanded, "Let the ear...

Humean and an African Causal Theory: A Comparative Study

I-Blocks in an African Context

The paper describes some initial experiences in involving users from Tanzania in the development of I-BLOCKS technology for the African cultural context. Users of the intelligent building blocks (I-BLOCKS) can do ‘programming by building’ and thereby construct functionality of artefacts in an intuitive manner without the need to learn and use traditional programming languages. We allow both sec...