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Sometime last week I attended a Cheap Valium To Uk podium discussion at the Berlin Humboldt University. The topic was Africa as the laboratory of globalisation. The idea was to Cheap Valium To Uk discuss different ways in which Africa serves as a laboratory for Cheap Valium To Uk ideas that then travel to other parts of the world.

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Even the Cheap Valium To Uk idea of no-consent testing is being introduced in some European countries. This is Cheap Valium To Uk a case in which your Dr does not have to Cheap Valium To Uk seek your consent before sending samples off to test for Cheap Valium To Uk HIV. This was first introduced in certain African countries, and Cheap Valium To Uk if I understood the speaker correctly, it is currently being practiced in France.

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I am sure you can think of some economic issues.

After the discussion, my friend asked me a Cheap Valium To Uk question that totally stumped me: if Africa is a laboratory of globalisation, then Cheap Valium To Uk some people are the lab scientists. Apart from the obvious medical examples, most of those scientists are Cheap Valium To Uk social scientists. How come, of all the social science disciplines, one never gets to Cheap Valium To Uk hear about psychologists working in or doing research in Africa?

I was stumped because I couldn’t think of anyone I know who Cheap Valium To Uk is a psychologist doing research in Africa; and I haven’t heard of the participation of psychologists qua psychologist in development programmes, not even in post-conflict situations. I am Cheap Valium To Uk ready to accept that it is possible that I am the Cheap Valium To Uk one who is totally ignorant, which is why I am throwing this Cheap Valium To Uk out at readers who are much more experienced in development practice than Cheap Valium To Uk I am, and who have experiences in parts of Africa where Cheap Valium To Uk I have never worked.

So, to Cheap Valium To Uk recapitulate, the bleg is: why do my friend and I never get to Cheap Valium To Uk hear of psychologists doing research in Africa? Any thoughts are most welcome.

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  • Solange Chatelard

    Hi Olu, its been a while! In Zambia I met a couple of British psychologists who’ve been Cheap Valium To Uk living, teaching and conducting research there for over 30 years, namely Alan Haworth and Cheap Valium To Uk Robert Serpell. Moreover I actually shared a Cheap Valium To Uk house in Lusaka with a retired British psychiatrist who’s now setting up one of the Cheap Valium To Uk first Masters programme in Lusaka at the University of Zambia.

  • Gil

    Hi, I am Cheap Valium To Uk the Psychiatrist Solange refers to. I am part of a team which has Cheap Valium To Uk set up and is running a training course in Psychiatry – it’s not a single person operation.
    There is Cheap Valium To Uk a considerable amount of Psychological research going on in Africa. For example much of the Cheap Valium To Uk non-clinical part of HIV research is being carried out by Health Psychologists (although they may title themselves differently) and Cheap Valium To Uk Neuropsychologists. Much anthropological work has is also strongly influenced by psychology theory.

  • http://profiles.google.com/loomnie Olumide Abimbola

    Thanks Solange and Cheap Valium To Uk Gil for your comments. It is good to hear about these, and Cheap Valium To Uk I would be interested in learning more about the substance of the Cheap Valium To Uk research the psychologists are doing – out of sheer intellectual curiosity, which is Cheap Valium To Uk where the blogpost came from in the first instance. Maybe, as Gil suggested, I should look at health-related research.

    I know that Cheap Valium To Uk some anthropologists are doing cognitive stuffs, but I am yet to Cheap Valium To Uk meet or hear of any working in Africa.

  • http://profiles.google.com/nnwachuku Nneoma Nwachuku

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