Daily Archives: February 23, 2009

Burkina Faso : Information and Communication Technologies for Education

Feb 23

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Integration of ICTs in the education cycle

The following project is featured on the IICD (International Institution for Communication and Development) website.

This project for the education sector targets twelve secondary schools in the capital and in the provinces (five in the capital, seven in the provinces). Sixty principals and teachers learn how to better integrate ICT’s in their education cycle. Computers with internet are provided for the teachers and they get technical assistance for learning to use specific computer programs that can aid them in their lessons. Once in full implementation, the project should provide lessons and experiences to be fed into the development of the Education policy of Burkina Faso. Often for this project the acronym TICE is used, this stands for ‘ Technologies de l’Information et de la communication pour l’enseignement au Burkina Faso’ the French title of this project.
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Through the project a website TICE BURKINA has been developed by the teachers to provide materials for other teachers.
Read more about IICD’s Burkina Faso Country Programme.

Posted in Burkina Faso, TECHNOLOGY

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Painting Ethiopia, The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw

Feb 23

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Ethiopian art book review

There’s a review on H-AfrArts list of a book about Ethopian artist Qes Adamu Tesfaw called Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Ques Adamu Tesafaw which in the form of a catalogue and is available from Amazon.com.

Tania Tribe. Review of Silverman, Raymond Aaron, with Qes Adamu Tesfaw, Leah Niederstadt, and Neil W. Sobania, Painting Ethiopia: The Life and Work of Qes Adamu Tesfaw. H-AfrArts, H-Net Reviews. February, 2009.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23479

Here is the blurb from an exhibition of his work in 2005
Qes Adamu Tesfaw is a former priest of the Orthodox Ethiopian Church who left the clergy to paint full time, and was trained in the philosophy and illuminated manuscript tradition of that 1,500 year old religion. His paintings tap the oldest beliefs, customs and current ironies of a land filled with oppositions. Tied to Arabic, African, Muslim, and Christian traditions, in a kind of cultural crossroads, Ethiopia provides this remarkable artist with the subject for scenes of medieval battle, of the English Queen visiting the late Emperor Haile Selassie, of veiled women in a sacred coffee ceremony. The Holy Trinity depicted in the form of fused Siamese twins holding the sacramental bread is simply an amazing image. The style of rendering is superb, and straight from early Christian illuminations–flat, intense, linear, oddly stylized, and full of Life (UCLA/Fowler Museum, West Los Angeles).

Qes Adamu Tesfaw, “St. George and the Dragon,” 1993, oil on cotton cloth, 53 x 68 1/4″.

How to get a copy

Painting Ethiopia: The Life And Work Of Qes Adamu Tesfaw

Posted in AFRICA, AFRICA COUNTRIES, ARTS AND CRAFTS, Ethiopia

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Paper : The role of women in African Traditional Religion

Feb 23

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Role of women in Africa

The following paper presents a view of the role of women in Africa according to African Religion as specified by the author, John Mbiti. The paper focusses on mythology, proverbs and prayers.

Read the full article: http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/atr-women.htm

Seen on Afrikaworld.net

Posted in AFRICA, CULTURE, LIFE

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