AfOx digital insaka
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Online event
The AfOx insaka is a platform to share ideas and knowledge about Africa-focused research with speakers from diverse disciplines.
About this event
Our next digital insaka will take place on Thursday, 5 November at 2pm BST. Find your local time via this link.
The insaka will be live-streamed on YouTube and we encourage you send in your questions via the YouTube chat box.
The YouTube link for the event is: https://youtu.be/qEUWvHDWH6E. Please sign in via a google account to send in questions and participate in the live chat during the event.
Speakers for this insaka are:
Dr Neo Tapela: Reducing delays in cancer diagnosis and treatment for rural patients
Dr Tapela is a Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield Department of Population Health and Research Associate, Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership.
At this insaka, Neo will discuss her current work in rural Botswana, developing a multi-component primary healthcare-anchored intervention for cancer early diagnosis called Potlako (which means “hurry” in Setswana). She will present patient and provider barriers targeted by the intervention, and findings from a controlled, non-randomized, prospective pilot that has led to an ongoing NIH-funded full cluster-randomized trial. Dr Tapela will also highlight applications of this study to planned future work to develop a multi-component intervention for hypertension control and to explore the care needs of individuals with multiple morbidities.
Dr Saudah Namyalo, The comeback disappointed the professor again: understanding Uganda’s urban-youth language based on English
Dr Namyalo is a Senior Lecturer, School of Languages, Literature and Communication at Makerere University
The English variety spoken today by the youth in Uganda’s urban space is characterised by striking linguistic variations. In this talk, Saudah will describe the variety of English spoken by Makerere University students’ population which feeds into the English variety spoken by the youths in urban contexts. She will particularly analyse the linguistic strategies the speakers of Makerere university English students’ variety use to expand its lexicon in a manner characterised by word-play and conscious linguistic manipulation.
