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Ademola, Oyedokun-Alli, Wasiu. "A Jurilinguistic Analysis of Proverbs as a Concept of Justice Among the Yoruba." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 12, no. 5 (2021): 829–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.1205.23.

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Polemical surveys of the rich cultural heritage of the peoples of Africa, especially before their contact, and eventual subjugation to the western imperialists have continued to reverberate across Africa and beyond. The surveys bemoan the abysmal disconnect between the African societies and their indigenous socio-cultural and institutional values. It has been pointed out, more than three decades ago, by Nkosi (1981) that indigenous languages formed part of a living organism forever changing to accommodate concepts and ideas which, over time, became the common heritage of all those who speak th

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Dzokoto, Vivian Afi Abui, Joanna Schug, Joseph Adonu, and Cindy Nguyen. "Marriage is like a groundnut, you must crack it to see what is inside: Examining romantic relationship rules in Akan proverbs." Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships 12, no. 1 (2018): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ijpr.v12i1.260.

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Proverbs are a valuable part of African culture. They transmit messages of shared, communal values about different facets of life inter-generationally. In an exploration of one West-African ethnic group, the Akan, the present study investigates messages that proverbs communicate about interpersonal relationships. A total of 79 Akan proverbs that addressed romantic relationships were examined using thematic analysis. The main components of advocated values as captured in the proverbs were identified. The thematic analysis determined that Akan romantic relationships tend to lean towards a “work-

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Baldi, Sergio, and Rudolf Leger. "Gender in Fulani Proverbs." Ethnologia Actualis 18, no. 1 (2018): 8–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/eas-2018-0007.

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Abstract Presented paper deals with Fulani people of West Africa and with the influence of their way of life on their language. One part of the Fulani people lives nomadic pastoral live, meanwhile another part is sedentary, living in the towns. The authors of the paper pay their attention to the the gender of Fulani proverbs which reflects the way of life of Fulani people.

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Moon, W. Jay. "Builsa Proverbs and the Gospel." Missiology: An International Review 30, no. 2 (2002): 171–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182960203000204.

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This article analyzes proverbs from the Builsa people in Ghana, West Africa, which open a window to understanding the worldview and traditional theology of the people. Other forms of oral literature are also briefly included in order to enlighten further the analysis of the proverbs. With this understanding, the mother tongue Scripture is then engaged with the culture in order to bring understanding into both. This process is helpful not only for missionaries, but also for national church leaders as the interaction of the gospel and culture opens up new understanding that helps to foster the e

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Kalu Obasi, Dr Kalu,. "The Irony of a Handshake of Friendship with the West: A Reflection on Oyono’s HouseBoy and The Oldman and the Medal." English Linguistics Research 7, no. 1 (2018): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v7n1p52.

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The African proverb that ‘a set of white teeth does not indicate a pure heart’ aptly illustrates the relationship that exists between the Africa and the West. Colonization which is the image of friendship with the White man turns out to be a curse rather than a blessing. The Africans in their brotherhood temperament happily offers a handshake with the White man with the hope fostering a good relationship only to discover that the kind gesture is tampered with bad omen by his guest. The advancement of the White man was a happy thing to the Africans who assumed it to usher in good relationship b

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Easton, Peter B. "Identifying the Evaluative Impulse in Local Culture." American Journal of Evaluation 33, no. 4 (2012): 515–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1098214012447581.

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Attention to cultural competence has significantly increased in the human services over the last two decades. Evaluators have long had similar concerns and have made a more concentrated effort in recent years to adapt evaluation methodology to varying cultural contexts. Little of this literature, however, has focused on the extent to which local cultures themselves already contain habits and patterns of evaluative thought that may serve as a basis for such work and for fuller stakeholder participation. This article explores the evaluative instincts expressed in West African proverbs against a

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Konadu, Kwasi. "Euro-African Commerce and Social Chaos: Akan Societies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." History in Africa 36 (2009): 265–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.2010.0001.

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Akokɔ nto nto, aduasa – the chicken should lay-lay eggs, thirty [plenty]Akorɔma mfa mfa, aduasa – the hawk should take-take, thirty [plenty]Akokɔ, mato mato bi awura – chicken: I have laid-laid some eggs ownerAkorɔma mmεfa me na mabrε – the hawk should come and take me, I am tiredAkan drum textAnimguase mfata okaniba – disgrace does not befit the Akan child[i.e., Akan-born]Akan proverbIn the drum text above, the chicken and the hawk parallel the symbiotic relationship between the “slave trade” and the period of “legitimate trade” between the Gold Coast and Britain. The former “trade” paved the

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Nyaenya, Zablon Ayiera, Prof Emily Choge, and Prof Joseph Koech. "THE BIBLICAL APPROACH OF PROVERBS 1-9 THAT IS APPLICABLE AND RELEVANT ON ADDRESSING INCREASED ANTISOCIAL ILLS IN AFRICA." European Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion 1, no. 2 (2017): 48. http://dx.doi.org/10.47672/ejpcr.307.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the Biblical approach of Proverbs 1-9 that is applicable and relevant on addressing increased antisocial ills in Africa.Methodology: The study was a desktop research where review of empirical literature was done.Results: It is only in the book of Proverbs 1-9 that we find the individual instructions from parents to their children. The book of Proverbs 1-9 can conveniently serve as the Biblical manual of parenting. The book of Proverbs 1-9 regards the home as the basic institution of learning the life skills. To appropriate the teachings and prac

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Khan, Lubna Akhlaq, Muhammad Safeer Awan, and Aadila Hussain. "Oral cultures and sexism: A comparative analysis of African and Punjabi folklore." Pakistan Journal of Women's Studies: Alam-e-Niswan 26, no. 2 (2019): 105–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.46521/pjws.026.02.0010.

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The present study embarked with a supposition that there are similarities (traditional, under-developed, agri-based) between the Punjabi and African cultures, so the gender ideology might have similar patterns, which can be verified through the analysis of oral genres of the respective cultures. From Africa, Nigerian (Yoruba) proverbs are selected to be studied in comparison with Punjabi proverbs, while taking insights from Feminist CDA (Lazar 2005). The study has examined how Punjabi and Yoruba proverbs mirror, produce and conserve gendered ideology and patriarchism. Punjabi proverbs are sele

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Bangura, Ahmed Sheikh. "Islam in West Africa." American Journal of Islam and Society 14, no. 3 (1997): 91–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v14i3.2271.

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Islam in West Africa is a collection of nineteen essays written by NehemiaLevtzion between 1963 and 1993. The book is divided into five sections. dealingwith different facets of the history and sociology of Islam in West Africa.The first section focuses on the patterns, characteristics, and agents of thespread of Islam. The author offers an approach to the study of the process of thatIslamization in West Africa that compares pattems of Islamizacion in medievalMali and Songhay to patterns in the Volta basin from the seventeenth to thenineteenth centuries. He also assesses the complex roles play

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AGYEMAN-DUAH, BAFFOUR, and OLATUNDE B. J. OJO. "Interstate Conflicts in West Africa." Comparative Political Studies 24, no. 3 (1991): 299–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414091024003002.

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Making a methodological shift from European-based to African-based reference groups, this article examines interstate conflicts in West Africa against the backdrop of reference group theory. The main thesis is that as a subsystem with implicit aim for stability, the Economic Community of West African States and the West African Heads of State Club constitute reference groups with rights and privileges for memberstates. It is hypothesized that conflicts occur when a regime is perceived by others to have violated group norms and values and is pressured to observe the subregional code of conduct.

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Kiyawa, Haruna Alkasim. "Discourse Markers in Hausa Proverbs: Exploring Intellectual Wise Saying from African Wisdom and Culture." REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language 3, no. 1 (2021): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.31849/reila.v3i1.5091.

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This paper aims to explore some intellectual wise saying from African wisdom and culture from one of the three major languages in the northern part of Nigeria. The use of discourse markers is one of the linguistics devices embedded in Hausa proverbs. However, Africa as the continent was occupied by different languages and dialectics. Proverbs is an expression of a saying which combines various wisdom and culture of every human beings living on the earth. This paper utilises written document as a method and selected (36) different proverbs and analyses the discourse markers. Moreover, the paper

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Gemmeke, Amber. "African Power." African Diaspora 9, no. 1-2 (2016): 39–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725465-00901004.

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This paper explores how West African migrants’ movements impacts their religious imagery and that of those they encounter in the diaspora. It specifically addresses how, through the circulation of objects, rituals, and themselves, West Africans and Black Dutchmen of Surinamese descent link, in a Dutch urban setting, spiritual empowering and protection to the African soil. West African ‘mediums’ offer services such as divination and amulet making since about twenty years in the Netherlands. Dutch-Surinamese clients form a large part of their clientele, soliciting a connection to African, ancest

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Ibeh, Kevin I. N., Idika Awa Uduma, Dilshod Makhmadshoev, and Nnamdi O. Madichie. "Nascent multinationals from West Africa." International Marketing Review 35, no. 4 (2018): 683–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/imr-08-2016-0158.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the motivations underpinning the foreign direct investment (FDI) activities, including the location and entry mode decisions, of nascent multinational enterprises (MNEs) from West Africa. Design/methodology/approach This research adopted a case study approach entailing the triangulation of interview data with documentary evidence on two leading West African financial service companies that have FDI footprints in over 50 country markets. Findings Evidence suggests the primacy of market-seeking motivations in explaining the FDI activities of the ex

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Ofori-Mensah, Akoss. "The State of Publishing in West Africa." LOGOS 26, no. 3 (2015): 40–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1878-4712-11112082.

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The conditions of publishing in Nigeria and Ghana are examined in the general context of African publishing in recent decades. In both countries, school textbooks dominate the economics of publishing, attracting profit-hungry multinationals and marginalising home-grown trade publishing. Problems such as the lack of bookselling infrastructure, the underdevelopment of reading habits, and the economic necessity for African authors to secure a readership outside Africa have prompted a number of initiatives to advance the fortunes of African publishers seeking to publish African authored-books serv

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Leissle, Kristy. "Invisible West Africa." Gastronomica 13, no. 3 (2013): 22–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2013.13.3.22.

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With the rise of single origin chocolate—made with beans from one country, region, or plantation—today many bars name the source of their cocoa. Based on historical and statistical analyses, interviews with artisans, and examination of product packaging, this article discusses the limited visibility of West Africa among single origin bars. Although the region generates about 70% of cocoa traded on the world market, a comprehensive database of “premium bar chocolate” shows just 3.8% made with West African beans. This discrepancy is due to a complex imbrication of trade logistics, bean strain, a

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KITLV, Redactie. "Book Reviews." New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 64, no. 3-4 (1990): 149–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/13822373-90002021.

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-Mohammed F. Khayum, Michael B. Connolly ,The economics of the Caribbean Basin. New York: Praeger, 1985. xxiii + 355 pp., John McDermott (eds)-Susan F. Hirsch, Herome Wendell Lurry-Wright, Custom and conflict on a Bahamian out-island. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1987. xxii + 188 pp.-Evelyne Trouillot-Ménard, Agence de Cooperation Culturelle et Technique, 1,000 proverbes créoles de la Caraïbe francophone. Paris: Editions Caribéennes, 1987. 114 pp.-Sue N. Greene, Amon Saba Saakana, The colonial legacy in Caribbean literature. Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, Inc. 1987. 128 pp.-

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Sullivan, Jo, and Katherine Harris. "African and American Values: Liberia and West Africa." International Journal of African Historical Studies 20, no. 1 (1987): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219309.

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Matthewson, Timothy, and Katherine Harris. "African and American Values: Liberia and West Africa." Journal of the Early Republic 6, no. 1 (1986): 83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3122679.

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Law, Robin. "The Royal African Company of England's West African Correspondence, 1681-1699." History in Africa 20 (1993): 173–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3171971.

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This paper draws attention to an ambitious project in the publication of source material for the precolonial history of West Africa, which has recently been approved for inclusion in the Fontes Historiae Africanae series of the British Academy. In addition to self-promotion, however, I wish also to take the opportunity to air some of the problems of editorial strategy and choice which arise with regard to the editing and presentation of this material, in the hope of provoking some helpful feedback on these issues.The material to be published consists of correspondence of the Royal African Comp

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Collins, John. "The early history of West African highlife music." Popular Music 8, no. 3 (1989): 221–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000003524.

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Highlife is one of the myriad varieties of acculturated popular dance-music styles that have been emerging from Africa this century and which fuse African with Western (i.e. European and American) and islamic influences. Besides highlife, other examples include kwela, township jive and mbaqanga from South Africa, chimurenga from Zimbabwe, the benga beat from Kenya, taraab music from the East African coast, Congo jazz (soukous) from Central Africa, rai music from North Africa, juju and apala music from western Nigeria, makossa from the Cameroons and mbalax from Senegal.

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Pingue, Kahmaria, and Rebecca Lloyd. "Dancing into Ubuntu:." Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (2021): 165–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18733/cpi29543.

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This inquiry describes the lived experiences of five Bachelor of Education students learning and teaching Kpanlogo, a West African dance. Each experience was conceptually analyzed with the Sankofa bird, depicted with its beak reaching back to retrieve a golden egg on its back. This symbol embodies the Ghanaian proverb, to go back, physically or spiritually, to retrieve what was once lost or forgotten. Such a framework orients us to the philosophy of Ubuntu, which posits that humanness is found and cultivated within community. What this inquiry reveals is that while it was awkward for some, it

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Strubbe, Linda E., and Bonaventure Okere. "West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 11, A29A (2015): 395–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921316003380.

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The West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers (WAISSYA) is a week-long program for university science students and teachers from West Africa to develop their interest in astronomy. The first summer school was held in Abuja, Nigeria, in 2013; the second Summer School was held in Nsukka, Nigeria, in July 2015. West Africa has a large number of students interested in science, but a paucity of facilities or interest from funding bodies in developing West African astronomy. Our broad goals for the WAISSYA program are: (1) to introduce West African students to astronomy; (2) to

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Abraham, Arthur, and Nemata Amelia Blyden. "West Indians in West Africa, 1808-1880: The African Diaspora in Reverse." International Journal of African Historical Studies 33, no. 3 (2000): 693. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3097452.

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Waller, Leon. "The Heritage Library of African Peoples: African Peoples: Set 2: West Africa." African Arts 33, no. 1 (2000): 92. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3337762.

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Weyer, Jaqueline, and Lucille Hellen Blumberg. "Ebola virus disease in West Africa: South African perspectives." South African Medical Journal 104, no. 11 (2014): 754. http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/samj.9045.

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George, A. "Sun education in Africa: Nigeria and West African subregion." Clinics in Dermatology 16, no. 4 (1998): 520–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0738-081x(98)00026-1.

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Shaw, Mark. "West African Criminal Networks in South and Southern Africa." African Affairs 101, no. 404 (2002): 291–316. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/afraf/101.404.291.

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Everill, Bronwen. "Bridgeheads of Empire? Liberated African Missionaries in West Africa." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 40, no. 5 (2012): 789–805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2012.730833.

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Tawah, C. L., and J. E. O. Rege. "GUDALI CATTLE OF WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA." Animal Genetic Resources Information 17 (April 1996): 147–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1014233900000651.

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SUMMARYThe objective of this paper was to compile the available information in the conventional and non-conventional literature on the origin, distribution, ecological settings, utility, husbandry practices and production systems of the Gudali, a West and Central African shorthorned zebu which is similar in conformation, size and origin to the East African shorthorned zebu. These animals are reputed not only for their beef and dairy qualities. but also for their hardiness to the harsh northerly environments. Under the prevailing circumstances in the pastoral systems, natural selection is the p

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Peek, Philip. "Drew in West Africa: Some Observations." African Issues 28, no. 1-2 (2000): 101–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1548450500006958.

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Despite renewed academic effort and increased public attention being paid African peoples and cultures, there are far fewer off-campus academic programs in Africa than one would expect, especially as we are speaking of a whole continent. Drew in West Africa is one of the few independent (with no institutional affiliations in Africa) academic programs that offer a regular four-week summer program in West Africa. After introducing the program, I would like to offer some observations on one of the most intriguing aspects of our program: the diversity of participants.

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Azumah, John. "Beyond Jihad: The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam." International Bulletin of Mission Research 41, no. 4 (2017): 363–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939317720379.

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Lamin Sanneh’s book Beyond Jihad deals with the peaceful transmission of Islam in West Africa by a pacifist clerical group. The author challenges the claim that the old African kingdom of Ghana was conquered by the militant Berber Almoravids in the eleventh century. Islam was not introduced into sub-Saharan Africa through militant jihad, as generally believed. The principal agents for the dissemination of Islam in West Africa were local clerics, who used the peaceful means of accommodation and adaptation. The clerical tradition was pacifist, emphasizing learning and teaching, not war and polit

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Engmann, Rachel Ama Asaa. "(En)countering Orientalist Islamic Cultural Heritage Traditions: Theory, Discourse, and Praxis." Review of Middle East Studies 51, no. 2 (2017): 188–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rms.2017.97.

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West African Islamic cultural heritage is recurrently overlooked or marginalized in scholarly, museological, and popular imaginaries, despite contemporary burgeoning Western attentiveness to Islam. Historically, Orientalists and/or Islamicists exclude West Africa, and anthropologists study West African Islam due to its alleged lack of written Arabic andAjamitexts (Loimeier 2013; Saul 2006), despite textual and material evidence to the contrary. Existing literature on the material expressions of West African Islam, largely edited volumes and museum catalogues, direct attention to Islamic West A

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Arowosegbe, Jacob O. "Indigenous African Jurisprudential Thoughts on the Concept of Justice: A Reconstruction Through Yoruba Proverbs." Journal of African Law 61, no. 2 (2017): 155–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855317000183.

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AbstractThe absence of writing in pre-colonial Africa has often befuddled indigenous African jurisprudential thoughts about law and related concepts. This article attempts a reconstruction of indigenous African jurisprudential thoughts on the concept of justice through a prescriptive exploration of Yoruba proverbs. This attempt reveals inter alia the reconciliatory and metaphysical nature and character of justice, as well as the goals of punishment and the character and nature of a desirable judicial system in African thoughts. While noting the artificiality of the categorizations adopted for

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Abusneineh, Bayan. "(Re)producing the Israeli (European) body: Zionism, Anti-Black Racism and the Depo-Provera Affair." Feminist Review 128, no. 1 (2021): 96–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01417789211016331.

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This article examines the Depo-Provera Affair—where Israeli doctors administered the contraceptive Depo-Provera to newly immigrated Ethiopian Jewish women—to argue that the Israeli settler colonial project depends on these forms of gendered anti-Black violence, through the management of Black African bodies. In 2013, then Israeli Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman admitted that they had administered Depo-Provera to Ethiopian immigrant women without their consent, after reproductive and civil rights activists in Israel called for an investigation after a drop in the birthrate among Ethiopian

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Du Plessis, Hester. "Oriental Africa." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 45, no. 1 (2018): 87–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.45i1.4465.

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Arab culture and the religion of Islam permeated the traditions and customs of the African sub-Sahara for centuries. When the early colonizers from Europe arrived in Africa they encountered these influences and spontaneously perceived the African cultures to be ideologically hybridized and more compatible with Islam than with the ideologies of the west. This difference progressively endorsed a perception of Africa and the east being “exotic” and was as such depicted in early paintings and writings. This depiction contributed to a cultural misunderstanding of Africa and facilitated colonialism.

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Alber, Erdmute, Tabea Häberlein, and Jeannett Martin. "Changing Webs of Kinship: Spotlights on West Africa." Africa Spectrum 45, no. 3 (2010): 43–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203971004500303.

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Changes in kinship relations are part of the broad social change in all African societies. This article highlights trends and characteristics of changing kinship relations in West Africa. Its analysis focuses on the twentieth century, which was shaped by the colonial conquest and profound societal transformations like the political independence of the African colonies. In analysing three important kinship relations – parent–child relations, marriage, and care for the elderly – this article depicts the trends and conditions of historical change of these relationships. It also shows whether and

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Mangena, F. "Ethno-philosophy is Rational: A Reply to Two Famous Critics." Thought and Practice 6, no. 2 (2015): 23–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tp.v6i2.3.

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In this article, I contend that philosophical reactions against ethno-philosophy, especially the arguments by professional African philosophers such as Paulin Hountondji and Kwame Anthony Appiah, cannot go unchallenged at a time when Africa is facing a myriad of problems such as disease, famine, ethnic conflicts, religious wars, and natural disasters which, in my view, stem from the continent’s failure to reflect on its past in the quest for lasting solutions. Having looked at the historical context of the emergence of ethno-philosophy or the project of cultural revivalism, and having closely

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Turaki, Yusufu. "Book Review: West Africa: Christ Would Be an African Too." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 22, no. 1 (1998): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239693939802200117.

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Sisay, Hassan Bailey. ":African‐American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth‐Century Diaries." American Historical Review 110, no. 3 (2005): 762–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/ahr.110.3.762.

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Allen, William E., James Fairhead, Tim Geysbeek, Svend E. Holsoe, and Melissa Leach. "African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-Century Diaries." International Journal of African Historical Studies 37, no. 2 (2004): 378. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4129028.

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Brown, A. A., M. L. Penrith, F. O. Fasina, and D. Beltran-Alcrudo. "The African swine fever epidemic in West Africa, 1996-2002." Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 65, no. 1 (2017): 64–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tbed.12673.

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McGowan, Winston. "African resistance to the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa." Slavery & Abolition 11, no. 1 (1990): 5–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440399008574997.

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Huang, Jingfeng, Chidong Zhang, and Joseph M. Prospero. "African aerosol and large-scale precipitation variability over West Africa." Environmental Research Letters 4, no. 1 (2009): 015006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/4/1/015006.

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Abubakar, Zakia, Fadhila Ali, Agnes Pinel, et al. "Phylogeography of Rice yellow mottle virus in Africa." Journal of General Virology 84, no. 3 (2003): 733–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/vir.0.18759-0.

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The sequences of the coat protein gene of a representative sample of 40 isolates of Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) from 11 African countries were analysed. The overall level of nucleotide diversity was high ( ∼14 %). Great geographical distances between the sites where isolates were collected were consistently associated with high genetic distances. In contrast, a wide range of genetic distances occurred among isolates spread over short geographical distances. There was no evidence of long-range dispersal. RYMV diversity in relation to land area was eight times greater in East Africa than in

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Sánchez-Hernández, M. Isabel, Luísa Cagica Carvalho, and Inna Sousa Paiva. "Orientation towards social responsibility of North-West African firms." Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 10, no. 2 (2019): 365–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sampj-07-2018-0171.

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Purpose Corporate social responsibility orientation (CSRO) is considered a crucial strategy to enhance long-term competitiveness around the world, and it is starting to be a broader issue in Africa. Based on recent works addressing the CSRO–performance relationship in countries outside the African continent, this paper aims to assess CRSO in North-West Africa. Design/methodology/approach In this study a questionnaire was distributed among 122 managers in two countries in North-West Africa: Guinea-Bissau and the Ivory Coast. Partial least squares (PLS) structural equation modelling (SEM) is use

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Khalid Anser, Muhammad, Danish Iqbal Godil, Busayo Aderounmu, et al. "Social Inclusion, Innovation and Food Security in West Africa." Sustainability 13, no. 5 (2021): 2619. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13052619.

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To achieve the United Nations Sustainable Goals (SDGs) by 2030, especially goal 2 (SDG-2) which is to “end hunger, achieve sustainable food security, improved nutrition and promote agriculture” this study examines how innovation and social inclusion affect food security in West Africa. The study applies the system Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) on a panel data of 15 West African countries for the period 2005–2018. The result from system GMM shows that innovation and social inclusion are drivers of food security. The implication of this is that increased level of social inclusion and innov

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Gyuracz, Veronika. "Investigative Journalism and Human Trafficking in West Africa." Africa Spectrum 51, no. 3 (2016): 77–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203971605100304.

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Investigative journalism that aims to prise out information that the state or certain businesses want to keep undisclosed has been unthinkable under many postcolonial African regimes. However, since the promulgation of democratic constitutions, a generation of ambitious investigative journalists has grown up in Africa. In order to show how journalism has changed, the paper brings Anas Aremeyaw Anas's activities into focus. Anas's single-minded mission to bring justice has targeted organisations involved in human trafficking, smuggling, and forced labour in West African countries since 2010. Al

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Melki, Jihen, Eugène Koffi, Marcel Boka, André Touré, Man-Koumba Soumahoro, and Ronan Jambou. "Taenia solium cysticercosis in West Africa: status update." Parasite 25 (2018): 49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2018048.

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Cysticercosis is caused by the larvae of the cestode Taenia solium. Few data are available on the prevalence of this disease in pigs and humans in West African countries. The aim of this study was to provide an overview of existing data concerning the spread of this parasitosis in the countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the basis of the literature published over the last five decades. Systematic searches for publications were carried out on PubMed and Google Scholar, as well as in certain regional and local journals. From a total of 501 articles initially ret

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Doumbia, Kadidia Viviane. "Globalization and Dance in West Africa." Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 40, S1 (2008): 86–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2049125500000546.

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Dance in most African countries, especially in West Africa, is the responsibility of a particular class of the society. The main issue for performers or choreographers trained in modern standards is the transfer of information to dance professionals who are illiterate, approximately 75 percent of noneducated people on the continent. The majority are women. It is an oral tradition too, so diversity, globalization, and feminism mean nothing to them. The sociopolitical situation of the entire continent is a good example of the consequences of colonization that, besides being a historical big mist

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