Are you a teenager, or do you work with young people? If yes, take a look at the updated website The ‘Auntie Stella’ website is an adaptation of the dynamic interactive tool ‘Auntie Stella: Teenagers talk about sex, life and relationships’ developed by the Training and Research Support Centre (TARSC) in Zimbabwe (see

Global Human Rights Leadership Training Institute, GHRLTI 2007 APPLICATION FORM DISTANCE EDUCATION COURSE Certificate Course in “Human Rights Leadership Development and Training”. 1st November – December 10th, 2007.

The FOSS Awards were inspired by a love and appreciation of Free Software., and a desire to share this with more people. Ian Gilfillan, who conceptualised the idea, writes: “As a student, I only learned proprietary software. It was only much later in my own explorations that I began to explore the world of FOSS. The openness, spirit of sharing and willingness to assist were an inspiration, and allowed me to learn much more, and to create for myself, than would otherwise have been possible.

Ruth Finnegan is renowned as the scholar who has made a whole generation of Africanists realise the singular importance of oral literature. She is the author of the classic "Oral Literature in Africa" and a whole range of other work in Africa. She asks whether Africa can still be considered 'the oral continent'. This book brings together all the contributions to the debate she started.