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The Ethnic Transference of Feminist Thought Involving Colonialism: A Metacognitive Examination of Multi-Cultural Learning

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53448#.VMWw9yzQrzE Author(s)   Shu-Chen Tsai *   Affiliation(s) University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada . ABSTRACT An Asian female immigrant to Canada contemplates how Black African feminist concepts are useful in understanding her own feminist history in another racial setting in a different part of the world. Her multi-cultural learning experience yields parallels between Black African feminist thought and her own ethnic cultural experience, prompts ideas about how feminists of all “shades” may achieve greater strength through recognition of commonalities, and creates questions for future research areas of her Asian cultural experience which may be informed and better understood through the insights of Black African feminist thought.   KEYWORDS Black Feminist Thought , Colonialism , Multi-Cultural Learning , East Asian Feminism , Blac...

Colonial Forest Policies and Tropical Deforestation: The Case of Cross River State, Nigeria

Read  full  paper  at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=53443#.VMWuSCzQrzE Author(s)    Oliver O. O. Enuoh 1* , Francis E. Bisong 2   Affiliation(s) 1 Tropical Ecological Consult Ltd., Abuja, Nigeria . 2 Department of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria . ABSTRACT Nigeria has lost over 90% of her forest resources due to the hydra-headed and enduring problem of deforestation, hinging on timber logging, establishment of agricultural plantations in hitherto intact forest reserves, construction of highways, mining of solid minerals, approval of taungya farming activities in forest reserves, extraction of non-timber forest products (NTFPs), and dereservation of large areas of certain forest reserves for other economic and development activities. Though colonialism was dismantled in the first half of the twentieth century, its policies on forest nationalization remain...