Another African Chalicothere

"Brother from another mother": mentoring for African-Caribbean adolescent boys.

African-Caribbean adolescent boys in the UK have a risk of developing mental health difficulties but are a challenging group to engage in mental health services. One avenue for promoting the psychological well-being of these adolescents is through mentoring programmes. This qualitative study explored the role of mentoring with African-Caribbean adolescent boys who had psychological and behaviou...

East and Central African Journal of Surgery: another Canadian connection.

F this issue of the CJS, we have declined to write a specific editorial from the editors. In its place, with our full support, is an editorial by Dr. Ronald Lett, President of the Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS), describing a developing link between the CJS and the East and Central African Journal of Surgery (ECAJS). The work of the CNIS has been highlighted in the journal in ...

First record of a chalicothere from the Miocene of Myanmar

Here we describe the first record of a chalicothere from the Miocene of Myanmar. The chalicothere, documented by a par− tial mandible, was unearthed from the lower portion of the Irrawaddy Formation in the region of Magway, Central Myanmar. The Burmese material belongs to an early late Miocene fauna which recently yielded hominoid remains attrib− uted to Khoratpithecus. The specimen, which is a...

Parody: Another Revision

The vast diversity of the proposed definitions of parody, both before and after the twentieth century, can be an emblem of the lack of a thorough agreement amongst the literary critics about the definition of this literary technique (genre?!). While there is not a comprehensive all-accepted definition of parody, modern and postmodern literatures both exhibit a wide application of it. After look...

Another side of African psychiatry in the 21st century--chaining as containment.