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The volume focuses on the creative and dynamic ways that people in African contexts are using their leisure time, having fun, being creative, and engaging in forms of expressive culture.
I like how they are very inventive. In a country that is definitely not like America, and does not have the same resources as we do, you have to be more creative and engaging with your time. I would be interested to see what they do.
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The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014 (Ohio University Press, 2015) tells the story of human experimentation and medical ethics in East Africa from 1940 to the present. The book draws on research conducted in more than 15 different places, searching for documents or people who could help reconstruct the history of medical research in the region, and integrates new archival materials from Mwanza and Amani (Tanzania).
I like how they are looking back on human experimentation and medical ethics in East Africa from 1940 to present. It is nice to learn from the bad and from the good that happened from the past. I remember being told that we need to learn from our past mistakes so we dont repeat them. This is a good way to learn and to stay humble. But it is also to know that these people were just victims that they were strong as well.
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Through surveys and in-depth interviewing
When we read about how surveys and interviewing were done in earlier times, there was a lot of miscommunication. I wonder if there would be translators with them. Also, would these individuals understand to the point of being able to give full consent on what they are giving answers to.
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It is meant as a counterpoint to the bulk of materials available for undergraduate African Studies courses that emphasize war, poverty, corruption, disease, and human rights violations.
I like how the book Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent shows the positive aspects to Africa. We see on the news or read in the papers way to often the negative sides to Africa. We hear more about their wars and corruption, their diseases and human rights violations and trafficing, and the major poverty issues that the country faces all the time. It is refreshing to see more positives about the country.
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Ongoing research in this area will continue with Camille Cioffi of the UO’s Prevention Science Institute, and appropriately motivated undergraduate students.
I like how there is a meaningful partnership with the community and the health organizations and NGOs. I love how undergraduate students are able to participate in the ongoing research and learning valuable research skills while also being able to help the community. This is also on a global health scale which is also benefiting the students.
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