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Forging a pathway for connecting skills, knowledge, technology, and participatory decision-making for all through the UN Ocean Decade Challenge 9
(Oxford University Press, 2025-01) Buchan, P. M.; Mahu, E.; Seeyave, S.; Arbic, B. K.; Sant, G.; Maure, E. d.R.; Mahadeo, S.; Kostianaia, E.; Hermes, J.; Sacedon, R.; Sogbanmu, Temitope O.; Kidwai, S.; Lin, X.; Sun, Z.
The UN Ocean Decade Vision 2030 Report identified the role of ocean knowledge in sustainable development and highlighted the need for a clear pathway to achieve its vision. Challenge 9–skills, knowledge, technology, and participatory decision-making for all—is crucial for forging a collaborative and connected pathway for knowledge generation and sharing. This article summarizes the challenges and recommendations in the Challenge 9 White Paper. It then focuses on three aspects that had emergent significance during the White Paper review processes: (1) the language we use around capacity, (2) the need to include multiple and diverse knowledge systems, and (3) the proposition that Challenge 9 is the natural home for access to participation in ocean decision-making.
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The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School In Nigeria and Ghana: The value of long-term, sustained capacity sharing
(The Oceanography Society, 2025-01) Arbic, B. K.; Adjetey, J.; Agyekumhene, A.; Akinwunmi, M. F.; Akita, L. G.; Anderson, L.; Ansong, J. K.; Addo, K. A.; Asamoah, E. K.; Awe, O. O.; Buckingham, C.; Collier, Janae'; Cotel, A. J.; Damoah, R.; Elegbeleye, O. W.; Farneti, R.; Foster-Martinez, M.; Frank, C.; Howden, S.; Idowu, R. T.; Johnson, W. M.; Kaiser, D.; Knoop, P.; Lamptey, A. M.; Lawal-Are, A.; Lucas, A. J.; Mahu, E.; Martin, P.; Menemenis, D.; Ayoola, N. O.; Nyadjro, E. S.; Nyarko, E.; Oguguah, N.; Oikonomou, A.; Oladipo, M.; Osborne, T.; Quarcoo, R. K.; Quaye, D. T.; Saba, A. O.; Simon, A. C.; Sogbanmu, T. O.; Tsei, S.; Vagenas, G.
The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School In Nigeria and Ghana (COESSING; https://coessing.org) has been run for one week every year since 2015. The school, an endorsed project of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030), has provided a platform for approximately 1,000 scientists from Africa, the United States, and Europe to exchange scientific knowledge, to network, to learn, and to collaborate. Our interdisciplinary, multicultural, and multi-institutional approach offers a model for knowledge exchange across the globe and across different educational levels.
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Conservation education training manual for coastal communities in Niger Delta, Nigeria
(One Health and Development Initiative, 2021) Oluwarore, K.; Akpan, S.; Sogbanmu, T. O.
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Modern (Wo)Man and the Narrative Grammar of Tony Nwaka’s Shadows and Nothings
(A publication of Department of English, University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos, Nigeria, 2021-12) Azumurana, S.O.; Oluwadare, S.I.
This paper has been informed fundamentally by the criticisms against Structuralism as a tool of critical exegesis. Despite such criticisms, the paper argues for its relevance by using it in the reading of Tony Nwaka’s novel, Shadows and Nothings (2019). The paper first clears some erroneous misconception about the theory of Structuralism before deploying its two basic concepts – the concept of signification and of binary opposition - for its analysis. Drawing on the concept of signification (the arbitrary relations between the signifier and the signified), it makes use of Tzvetan Todorov’s schema of narrative grammar that stresses that every narrative follows the seek-and-find formula. Yet, by deploying the three properties of signification – wholeness, transformation, and selfregulation – the paper demonstrates that Todorov’s traditional “seek-and-find” formula undergoes some transformation in Nwaka’s novel – so that, instead of the “seek-andfind” pattern, there is on one hand the “seek-find-and-lose again” and on the other, the “seek-find-lose-and-find-again” structure. However, the narrative is still self-regulated because, despite its transformation, it again reinforces the redemptive underpinning that characterizes classical fictions – that of the hero(ines) always questing for one thing or another that they feel in some way would transform them. Going further, by employing the concept of binary opposition, the paper contends that there are two pairs of oppositional characters in Nwaka’s Shadows and Nothings – those who “seek-find-andlose” and those who “seek-find-lose-and-find” again. The paper then concludes that by broadening or overturning the scope of the traditional “seek-and-find” structure, Nwaka successfully lines himself up in the queue of modernist writers who see the life of modern (wo)man as being more complicated, and who would, therefore, completely avoid a dogmatic adherence to the sentimentality of traditional/classical narratives.
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Casino Journalism and The End of History
(University of Lagos Press and Bookshop Limited, 2024) Ibraheem, I.A.
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