THE ADA BEATER: IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF HANDMADE PAPER IN GHANA

The Ada Beater: Improving the Quality of Handmade Paper in Ghana

Handmade paper has been around for centuries.In Asia, Europe, and other parts of the world, the means of creating handmade paper depend largely on traditional equipment and other industrial machines.In Ghana, the means of creating handmade paper is through a tedious process of hand beating the bast fiber of the Kyenkyen tree.This resulted in the pr

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Artemisia pallens Wall. ex. DC: A comprehensive review

Davana (Artemisia pallens Wall.ex DC) is a well-known and precious essential oil-bearing plant under the family Compositae (Asteraceae).It is an erectly grown herbaceous plant exclusively cultivated as a short-term crop in south India during winter.It is distributed in the northern hemisphere in subtropical Africa, South Africa, West America, and S

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Risk and Catastrophe. The Failure of Science and Institutions: Finding Precarious Solutions in a Precarious life

The aim of this article is to investigate around the life in the contemporary society, characterized by risks and catastrophes.What does mean to live g5210t-p90 fearing that in any moment a catastrophe could happen (a tsunami, an earthquake, a nuclear explosion)? Despite of the failure of science and public institutions in the prevention of the cat

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