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Child development in Africa addresses the variables and social changes that occur in African children from infancy through adolescence.Three complementary lines of scholarship have sought to generate knowledge about child development in Africa, specifically rooted in endogenous, African ways of knowing: analysis of traditional proverbs, theory-building, and documentation of parental ethno ...
The African Storybook (ASb) is a multilingual literacy initiative that works with educators and children to publish openly licensed picture storybooks for early reading in the languages of Africa. An initiative of Saide , the ASb has an interactive website that enables users to read, create, download, translate, and adapt storybooks. [ 1 ]
Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912) was an Americo-Liberian [1] educator, writer, diplomat, and politician who was primarily active in West Africa.Born in the Danish West Indies, he joined the waves of black immigrants from the Americas who migrated to Liberia.
New Africa Books: In addition to "trade books of political, historical and cultural import for the South African and international market", the list focuses on literacy development in children and young adults, in various South Africa languages. Prominent titles include the language courses Clicking with Xhosa and Zooming in on Zulu. [1]
The Silent Books collection is a collection of children's books without words, created as a response to the need for books on the Italian island of Lampedusa, the destination for many refugees fleeing North Africa and the Middle East. Together with the IBBY Honor List selection, these collections are available as exhibitions.
The International Conference on African Children or Conference on the African Child was an international conference held in Geneva in June 1931.. Organised by the International Save the Children Union, it followed on from the adoption by the League of Nations in 1924 of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, drafted by the Union in 1923.
The Children's Charter originated because the member states of the AU believed that the CRC missed important socio-cultural and economic realities particular to Africa. It emphasises the need to include African cultural values and experiences when dealing with the rights of the child in such as:
The African Child (French: L'Enfant noir) is an autobiographical French novel by Camara Laye published in 1953. [1] It tells the story of a young African child, Baba, growing up in Guinea . The novel won the Prix Charles Veillon writing prize.