The expatriate professor: Lessons from teaching management in Africa

Out of Africa: Lessons from Park Management in South Africa

operations, and policies of park management in South Africa—specifically in regard to wildlife management—and how they contrast with park management in the U.S. Our discussion is especially relevant to protected areas in grassland, savanna, and shrubland biomes because both countries contain those habitat types (Licht et al. 2008). We focus on seven issues that may stimulate thought among U.S. ...

COVID-19 Outbreak in Africa: Lessons and Insights from the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemics

Over the years, the African continent has had to battle several outbreaks of infectious diseases in different countries. Some of the most deadly were the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks that occurred in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and, more recently, from 2018 to 2020 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the era of the COVID-19 pand...

lessons learnt from the 2014 ebola outbreak in west-africa

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Knowledge management and trust in government: Lessons from South Africa

This paper started out with the assumption that a citizenry well-informed about the policy problems identified by government and about the government’s strategies for dealing with those problems would potentially have more trust in a government if those strategies are perceived by the citizens to be the best to protect and promote their interests under the circumstances. The interaction between...

Regional Development and Cluster Management: lessons from South Africa