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African countries are benefiting in some ways from foreign aid backed development initiatives like the Young African Leaders Initiative, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development. But, writes Ademola Adenle, such initiatives would do better if they improved their understanding of and integration into local African contexts.
A curiously named South African civil society organisation opposed to religion in public schools, OGOD, has gone to the high court in a bid to stop six schools from identifying themselves as Christian. Georgia Alida du Plessis argues that this test case needs to be handled with the utmost sensitivity, especially given that most South Africans are religious, and overwhelmingly Christian.
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Ademola Adenle, Colorado State University
A study of how the Young African Leaders Initiative handles its business exposes typical weaknesses, mainly lack of understanding local context, suffered by many foreign aid programmes.
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Politics + Society
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Georgia Alida du Plessis, University of the Free State
A civil society organisation, OGOD, wants South Africa's public schools to stop calling themselves Christian and to outlaw their religious practices.
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Environment + Energy
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Claudio Sillero, University of Oxford
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Jason Bantjes, Stellenbosch University; Christine Lochner, South African Medical Research Council; Dan J. Stein, South African Medical Research Council; Lian Taljaard, Stellenbosch University
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