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EduSoundsIn Conversation With Dr. Ify Aniebo: The GMO Issue (Part 2)In this conversation, we discuss many issues, amongst which are:
The introduction of GM Foods in Nigeria
The AfroScientric project: “Inspiring the next generation of African females into science.”
Using Twitter as a tool for science communication
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edusoundsng/message2020-08-031h 07EduSoundsIn Conversation With Dr. Ify Aniebo: The GMO Issue (Part 1)In this conversation, we discuss many issues, amongst which are:
The introduction of GM Foods in Nigeria
The AfroScientric project: “Inspiring the next generation of African females into science.”
Using Twitter as a tool for science communication
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edusoundsng/message2020-08-0314 minEduSoundsWhose Voice? Between Slavery, Identity And Gentrification In Cape Town – An Interview With Sam North"As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an uneasy relationship with depictions of the city in tourist publications as an inclusive world of adventuring, beaches, dining, and warm weather. Cape Town’s problematic relationship with its slave past runs deeper than this. Slavery is a history which until the fall of apartheid in 1994 remained largely forgotten in public memory. Efforts to confront this history remain fitful and highly contested. But slavery at the Cape differed in style from most other systems of enslavement involving Eu...2020-08-0230 minEduSoundsEmpowering Communities Through Recycling: An Interview With Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, The Recycling Queen Of AfricaIn this conversation, we discuss many issues, amongst which are:
How a group assignment at MIT led to Wecyclers
How Wecyclers is helping to reduce exposure to criminal activities among youths
Wecyclers’ rewards system
Challenges of pioneering recycling business in Nigeria
Wecyclers focus on education
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edusoundsng/message2020-08-0228 minEduSoundsHerbal Medicines: Issues And Successes – Dr Olumayokun Olajide (Part 2)House Fire: A poem by Chikayla Coleman
If I were to describe a house fire,
I would describe the moment the flames
begin to destroy those things that can never be replaced.
Like red wine spilled down a white shirt,
the fire leaves a stain of spoiled material in its wake.
Photograph albums
containing memories once sharp and crisp with every detail of every face
are consumed by the blaze,
it belches smoke that obscures the photographs of the grandchildren on...2020-08-0222 minEduSoundsThe Strange Case Of Fanta, Sprite And Benzoic Acid In Nigeria: A Scientific Analysis- Dr Olumayokun Olajide (Part 1)"The court is in absolute agreement with the learned counsel for the claimants that soft drinks manufactured by Nigeria Bottling Company ought to be fit for human consumption irrespective of colour or creed. It is manifest that NAFDAC has been grossly irresponsible in its regulatory duties to the consumers of Fanta and Sprite manufactured by Nigeria Bottling Company. The court, in the light of the damning evidence before it showing that NAFDAC has failed to live up to expectations, cannot close its eyes to the grievous implication of allowing the status quo to continue as it is. That NAFDAC...2020-08-0230 minEduSoundsWhy Blogging Is Important: An Interview With Dr Carol Azumah Dennis"Blog refers to both an artefact and a practice. As an artefact, a blog (short for web log) is a frequently updated personal online space. As a practice, to blog is to publish a series of posts for others to read, comment upon, establish a hyperlinked connection to and from, or otherwise engage with."
"The bloggers’ public may at times be invisible; there is a public who observes, reads, engages with but leaves no trace of their presence. A more visible public is implied by the blogs’ status as multi-authored – groups of or individual writers interact with those...2020-08-0225 minEduSoundsPublic Space As An Institution Of Learning: An Ethnographer’s Social Experience In Nigeria – Dr Insa Nolte (Part 3)"The thing that I found most interesting when I first came to Nigeria myself, was the realization that I don’t have to live my life exactly the way my parents told me to live it. Because I could see some examples of how people were doing it differently and I just decided that I would stay among those people in Nigeria. I would learn all the best things from them and I would incorporate all the best bits of their lives into my own life and I have tried and I really believe that my life is so mu...2020-08-0113 minEduSoundsThe Importance Of Oral History: An Interview With Dr Insa Nolte (Part 2)"Historical information was primarily conveyed in narratives called itan which belonged to the representatives of important groups. Thus, the itan of a town was owned by the town’s ruler, who embodied the town. Below that level, itan were held by the heads of important descent and residential groups. But beyond itan, historical information was also conveyed in other genres. Important historical details were transmitted in divination verses, ritual, and a form of praise poetry called oriki, as well as many smaller genres."
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edusoundsng/message2020-08-0112 minEduSoundsDestination Brazil, Arrival Nigeria: How A Proposed Students Exchange Programme From Germany To Brazil Ended Up In A Lifelong Passion In Nigeria – An Interview With Dr Insa Nolte (Part 1)"The privatisation of information has also had a crippling effect on historical research. While many important files of the colonial period are held outside Africa, those that are based on the continent tend to decline over time, and not only because of often dismal storage conditions. In various Nigerian archives we have consulted, files relating to land, political authority and identity had disappeared or were missing sections. Where files exist, personal experience suggests that it is not unusual for researchers to be put under considerable pressure not to investigate issues that might be seen as challenging the interests of...2020-08-0111 minEduSoundsChallenging Gentrification Through Legal Aid And Legal Education Training: An Interview With Megan Chapman Of JEI"Nigeria has a huge housing deficit, across the country it’s supposed to be 17 million units of housing that are missing. In Lagos alone it’s estimated at 5 million units of housing that are missing and of course we’re talking about housing in the formal sector and since it’s so difficult to access affordable housing in the formal sector, communities that are informal tend to spring up and tend to exist in order to provide for the basic needs that people have shelter." - Megan Chapman
You can read the transcript: Challenging Gentrification Through Legal Aid And...2019-12-3146 minEduSoundsThe Story Of The Nigerian Montane Forest (Ngel Nyaki) – An Interview With Dr Hazel ChapmanThe story of the relationship between Dr Hazel Chapman and the Nigerian Montane Forest in Taraba state, Nigeria is a story that can simply be put as “as fate would have it”, just like Dr Chapman said during my interview with her. It is interesting to know that a childhood experience has become a lifelong career and hobby. When Dr Chapman decided to visit Nigeria in the year 2002, little did she know that she was going to embark on something that would not only be life changing to her but would be a bee-hive of activities for Nigerian and...2019-12-3024 minEduSoundsLagos Migrant Histories: From the pepper farm to the mega city; an Interview With Dr Abosede George"The Ekopolitan project...is a project about migrant communities in 19th century Lagos and I’m interested in a few different migrations; people who are migrating as refugees from wars, people who are migrating to settle in that kind of a free land if they had been enslaved previously, people who are migrating to rediscover their home if they were in their lifetime had been taken away or coming back in the same life time. So that kind of project I think connects Lagos as an island which was, maybe – the most densely populated place in the region at that...2019-12-3046 minEduSoundsIntroductionThis is a podcast show on educational issues and research on Nigeria in particular and Africa in general.
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Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edusoundsng/message2019-12-3000 min