Ruth Oniang'o describes why she started the Nairobi-based journal AJFAND and the funding challenge which the journal continues to face even after nearly 20 years of being operational.
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This call was organized around Bateson's concepts of deutero-learning and double bind which heavily influenced the discussion points raised in the call.Read more
AO: This is the powerpoint presentation that Leo and I used for our opening remarks.Read more
In this transcribed excerpt below, Wambui contrasts the "loose" organizational style of the Working Group with the more rigid and pre-determined system that she is used to ("research should be...Read more
Transcript from Focus Group Discussion
October 29, 2019
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Social Hall in Kibera
Participants: 3 men and 2 women who reside in Kibera and have regularly participated (as both subjects and also enumerators) in various research projects; 1...Read more
AO: This is a digitized copy of the signature pages of the informed consent reviewed by participants in the group discussion # 191029_001. Two of the participants wished to be anonymous while the four others expressed and confirmed desires to be named both verbally and on the consent form...Read more
Discussion on Open Access in Africa
March 31, 2020
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Nairobi
Participants (listed alphabetically):
AO: This is a digitized copy of the signature page of the informed consent that was reviewed by Participant LDKMMM07 prior to interview # 190920_001 and signed after the interview.Read more
AO: This is a digitized copy of the signature page of the informed consent that was reviewed by Participant DRKWAS01 prior to interview # 190514_001 and signed after the interview.Read more
AO: Eve emphasizes the "importance of publishing for development" (29:31) and “the power of a version of publishing which is about development issues, rather than about promotions and...Read more
This was originally published in Zenodo to supplement a blog post I authored for LSE in May 2019. However, I was...Read more