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Atia Azohnwi Bamnjo Herman Yenika, Ph.D., has made history at the University of Bamenda, defending the first-ever doctorate thesis at the varsity’s Faculty of Law and Political Science. The Ph.D. thesis on the topic: "Regional Integration Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution: A Comparative Study of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)" was defended Friday, June 25, 2021 , in Amphitheater 340 of the University of Bamenda. In his thesis, Bamnjo found that the last 30 years have been witnessed by intra-state c...

Eleven members of the Class of 2021 who have distinguished themselves for academic excellence, service and leadership at East Tennessee State University have been inducted into the 1911 Society. Named in commemoration of the year when ETSU was founded, the 1911 Society recognizes the university’s most notable graduates from undergraduate, graduate and professional programs. The selection committee evaluates applicants on academic achievement; sustained service; honors, awards, recognitions, publications and presentations; demonstrated leadership; work experience, such as study abroad, in...

One of the earliest stains on the legacy of psychiatry, my medical specialty, dates to the American 1840 census, when the US government first began systematically collecting information on “idiocy” and “insanity.” According to the results, the purported rates of mental illness among free blacks in northern cities were deemed to exceed those among enslaved blacks in the south by an 11-to-one ratio. South Carolina Senator John C. Calhoun, a notoriously strident defender of slavery, seized upon the results as “proof” that “the African is incapable of self-care and sinks into lunacy...

Webinar: ‘Landscape and Poetry' by Professor Ben Bollig 'Landscape and Poetry' by Professor Ben Bollig The Centre for the Comparative Study of Portugal, Spain and the Americas (CEPSAM) invites you to join a new seminar series organised by current postgraduate students at Swansea University. This will be the third session in this seminar series: 'Landscape and Poetry in Gerardo ‘Papu’ Curotto and Andi Nachon’s Esteros' by Professor Ben Bollig (St Catherine's College, University of Oxford). Tuesday 11 May 2021, 5 pm. Click here to register for the event via Eventbrite. Zoom joining...

Course Description The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs) envisages a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity; a world which invests in its children and in which every child grows up free from violence and exploitation; a world in which every woman and girl enjoys full gender equality and all legal, social and economic barriers to their empowerment have been removed. A just, equitable, tolerant, open and socially inclusive world in which, the needs of the most vulnerable are met. The first eighteen years of a child’s life encompass a wide range of capacitie...