"Besides you are dead yourself. You have to realise this. When men decreed you were mad, you were treated as a madman. When they decreed you were dead, Bouna could only take you for a ghost. Whatever you do, Magamou is dead. The crowd has so decided." Malick Fall, The Wound.
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This article draws mainly upon my experience of teaching Social Policy in the Centre for Development Studies, University College of Swansea, Wales.
2.
India is an exception here.
3.
See Janet Bujra , 'Women Entrepreneurs of Early Nairobi' in the Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. IX No. 2 pp. 213-234. 1975, for a discussion of women prostitutes. Also G.C. Mutiso, " "Mbai Sya Eitu": A Low Status Group in Centre Periphery Relations." Paper to the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the A.S.A Denver, 1971, which deals with women's secret societies. Another example is M. Peil, 'African Squatter Settlements: A Comparative Study', Urban Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2. 'June 1976, pp. 155-166.
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Very recently some interesting notes are appearing in African Urban Studies, a periodical from the African Studies Centre, Michigan State University..See "An Assessment of the Nigerian Hoiising Allocation Policy: The Case of the Ballot System". New Series Number 1 Spring, 1978.
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There are, of course, many interesting unpublished dissertations written by students within developing countries, e.g. those produced by the staff and students of the Sociology Department of the University of Dar-es-Salaam.
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This statement is based upon consideration of at least two hundred applications for admission to the Swansea courses and the acceptance of approximately one hundred persons.
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An example here is the Two Year Social Work Training Course at Kaduna Polytechnic, Nigeria. Many students take this ater a one year more basic course in Administration. In total they may have three years of higher education in Social Welfare but feel comfortable only with the language of Social Casework and Community Development Texts.
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Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Chapter II). Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972.
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See for example W. Kinch, Social Problems in the World Today, Addison Wesley Publishing Co., Mass.1974.
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R.K. Merton and R. Nisbet, Contemporary Social Problems, Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanich , 1976.
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J.D. Douglas , Deviance and Respectability, Basic Books. Inc.New York, 1970 and R.A. Scott , The Making of Blind Men, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1969.
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I recall from Seminar notes that in 1977 one course member produced a competent summary of Scott's work on 'the Construction of Conceptions of Stigma by Professional Experts' (from Douglas mentioned above). Yet within the same seminar when we discussed how blind beggar women in Urban Africa evade the authorities, this student specified a particular woman and wondered about "having her sterilized".
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For an account of "insentitivity to contradiction" in British Youth see Trevor Pateman, Language, Truth and Politics, Pateman and Stroud.
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Peter Gutkind , 'Ffrom the Energy of Despair to the Anger of Despair,' Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. 7. No. 21972, pp. 179-198.
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International Labour Organization, Employment, Incomes and Inequality in Kenya. Geneva1972
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Kenneth King , The African Artisan, Education and the Informal Sector in Kenya, Heinemann, and Teachers' College Press, London and New York, 1977.
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In Dennis Krebs (ed.), Readings in Social Psychology, Contemporary Perspectives, Harper and Row, 1976.
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I. Goffman, Stigma: Notes in the Management of Spoiled Identity, Penguin Books, 1964.
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See Gavin Kitching, 'Simulation Exercises for the Teaching of Planning: The Example of Ruritania.' IDS Bulletin, Sussex University, February, 1978.
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See the United Nations Publication, Asian Creative Litetature in Social Work Education. U.N. New York.1975.
