Some African Pests

Tri-Trophic Insecticidal Effects of African Plants against Cabbage Pests

Botanical insecticides are increasingly attracting research attention as they offer novel modes of action that may provide effective control of pests that have already developed resistance to conventional insecticides. They potentially offer cost-effective pest control to smallholder farmers in developing countries if highly active extracts can be prepared simply from readily available plants. ...

some new leads for human african trypanosomiasis (african sleeping sickness)

Understandings of immunization: some west African perspectives.

doi:10.2471/BLT.08.054726 In 2001, a school teacher in Gueckedou, on Guinea’s border with Liberia, saw rebel forces including child soldiers destroy his town. Reflecting a few years later on the childhood immunization programmes that are now well established in the region, he worried that they might be creating a new generation of children – strengthened, but more violent. The notion of strengt...

Some pages from my African diary.

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Parental Education Choice: Some African American Dilemmas

The research literature on families and educational achievement as it addresses African American populations is uniquely characterized by attention to educational failure rather than educational success (Slaughter, Nakagawa, et al., 1990). This orientation originated over 40 years ago with the "culture-as-social-class" conceptual model, which attempts to explain the behavior of lower income Afr...