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Since completing this article, Asfaw Yemiru has finalised plans for putting his new educational ideas into practice. Alex Brodie describes the "Moya" which Asfaw and his pupils will soon begin building.
The author of this article, Asfaw Yemiru, is one of Africa's most extraordinary men. At the age of 10, he was an illiterate beggar-boy on the streets of Addis Ababa. Today, aged 28, he is headmaster of a free school for over 3,000 poor children. Not content with this achievement, Asfaw is now moving his school towards a new concept of education which could have significance not just for Ethiopia but for many other parts of both the developing and the developed world.
Harvests have fallen short of targets in almost all the most populous parts of the world. As food shortages reach crisis point for millions of people in the poor world, Keith Abercrombie spells out the present situation and analyses the underlying issues which threaten to set back the whole process of world development in the Second Development Decade.
Taking up the main themes of his Edinburgh speech on "The Challenge of World Poverty" Roy Jenkins writes on the new European context of that challenge and calls on the enlarged nine-nation community to take the lead in introducing new policies which will work in the best interests of both the Third World and the European Community itself.
As the tension mounts in southern Africa, Zambian Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda talks to the New Internationalist about the Rhodesian blockade; the racial crisis on the continent; and the key issues facing Zambia itself. Interview by David Martin.
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Gulf boycott threatened | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
Angolan coffee campaign | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
European groups open new development campaigns | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
Third world awaits crucial E.E.C. decisions | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
Eleven year old headmaster starts new school in Dacca (Dhaka) | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
'War economy' in Chile - Allende facing big test | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
Vietnam facing unique development problems | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
Drought hits Maharashtra | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
Bangladesh near to collapse | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
India threatened by world food shortages | March, 1973 | 1 | Read | ||
Post script: The Moya | Since completing this article, Asfaw Yemiru has finalised plans for putting his new educational ideas into practice. Alex Brodie describes the "Moya" which Asfaw and his pupils will soon begin building. |
March, 1973 | 1 | Read | |
Crying in the wilderness | The author of this article, Asfaw Yemiru, is one of Africa's most extraordinary men. At the age of 10, he was an illiterate beggar-boy on the streets of Addis Ababa. Today, aged 28, he is headmaster of a free school for over 3,000 poor children. Not content with this achievement, Asfaw is now moving his school towards a new concept of education which could have significance not just for Ethiopia but for many other parts of both the developing and the developed world. |
Asfaw Yemiru | March, 1973 | 1 | Read |
World food crisis | Harvests have fallen short of targets in almost all the most populous parts of the world. As food shortages reach crisis point for millions of people in the poor world, Keith Abercrombie spells out the present situation and analyses the underlying issues which threaten to set back the whole process of world development in the Second Development Decade. |
March, 1973 | 1 | Read | |
The new Europe and the third world - Roy Jenkins | Taking up the main themes of his Edinburgh speech on "The Challenge of World Poverty" Roy Jenkins writes on the new European context of that challenge and calls on the enlarged nine-nation community to take the lead in introducing new policies which will work in the best interests of both the Third World and the European Community itself. |
Roy Jenkins | March, 1973 | 1 | Read |
Kaunda | As the tension mounts in southern Africa, Zambian Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda talks to the New Internationalist about the Rhodesian blockade; the racial crisis on the continent; and the key issues facing Zambia itself. Interview by David Martin. |
Peter Adamson | March, 1973 | 1 | Read |