This article recounts the lived experience of a Rwandan English teacher’s journey from his village to international opportunities for scholarship and work, enabled by agency in navigating country’s changing linguistic landscape. Using narrative inquiry research method, study uncovers an insider’s perspective on Rwanda’s switch French English-medium education offers unique participant-centred co...

The end-Permian mass extinction, 251 million years (Myr) ago, was the most devastating ecological event of all time, and it was exacerbated by two earlier events at the beginning and end of the Guadalupian, 270 and 260 Myr ago. Ecosystems were destroyed worldwide, communities were restructured and organisms were left struggling to recover. Disaster taxa, such as Lystrosaurus, insinuated themsel...

This paper examines Monte Carlo in the late-nineteenth century and Las Vegas in the mid-twentieth century, and explores how the cities forged specific identities centered upon their casino-resort industries. Civic planners, entrepreneurs, and tourists contributed to the formation of a spatial imaginary (the conception of a place, laden with symbols and infused with meaning designed to evoke cer...

Abstract Archaeology increasingly attests the complex and cosmopolitan nature of societies in medieval Ethiopia ( c . seventh to early eighteenth centuries AD). Without negating existence relations dominance periods isolation, key emergent themes such research are pluralism interaction. Four religious traditions relevant this theme: Islam, Judaism, Christianity Indigenous religions. This articl...