The authors analyze the determinants of literacy and earnings in Ghana. They link literacy and earnings with various other factors, including age, gender, family educational background, distance to school, and income. Literacy and age are negatively correlated, suggesting that efforts to strengthen the supply and quality of basic education programs in recent years ...

In light of the uses and misuses of history in Zimbabwean politics in recent years, this research report focuses on how versions of the country s liberation war history have become a site of struggle over the definition of Zimbabwean national identity. As identity politics often do, Zimbabwean nationalism draws on a wide field of cultural symbols of identity and po...