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Journal articles on the topic "West African Literature"

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Akinwumi Sesan, Azeez. "Literature, Global Terrorism, Politics and Media Literacy in Africa." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 16, no. 4 (2013): 69–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2013.16.4.69.

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Three factors, specifically, slavery, Proselytization and Colonialism have influenced the history and politics of Africa. The tripartite relationship established among the three factors influences the historical development of African politics. Difference in worldview between the West and third world countries has increased the phenomenon of global terrorism. The paper examines how literary texts in Africa and by Africans have recorded and responded to the political history of the continent in relation with global democratic governance. African writers are therefore expected to project post co
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Palmer, Eustace. "West African Literature in the 1980s." Matatu 10, no. 1 (1993): 61–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000007.

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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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Irabor, David Omoareghan. "Colorectal Carcinoma: Why Is There a Lower Incidence in Nigerians When Compared to Caucasians?" Journal of Cancer Epidemiology 2011 (2011): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/675154.

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Carcinoma of the colon and rectum is the 2nd commonest cancer in the United States; the leading cancer being lung cancer. It has been estimated that 130,200 new cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed annually while 56,300 sufferers will die from the disease (Murphy et al., 2000). In developing countries especially West Africa, the rate has not yet reached such magnitude. This suggests that there may be factors either anthropomorphic or environmental which may be responsible for this. The paper acknowledges the reduced incidence of colorectal cancer in native West Africans living in Afric
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Harlin, Kate. ""One foot on the other side": Towards a Periodization of West African Spiritual Surrealism." College Literature 50, no. 2-3 (2023): 295–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lit.2023.a902220.

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Abstract: For both writers and scholars of African and diaspora literature, genre is a fraught concept. Western institutions, especially departments of English literature, have used the tool of genre to discipline Africana literatures and the people who create them, at once reducing conventional realism to a source of anthropological information and mischaracterizing realism with an indigenous or Nonwestern worldview as fantasy or "Magical Realism." "West African spiritual surrealism," as defined in this essay, offers a generic rubric that both attends to the literalization of Igbo and Yoruba
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Ngom, Fallou. "Aḥmadu Bamba's Pedagogy and the Development of ʿAjamī Literature". African Studies Review 52, № 1 (2009): 99–123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arw.0.0156.

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Abstract:While African literature in European languages is well-studied, ʿajamī and its significance in the intellectual history of Africa remains one of the least investigated areas in African studies. Yet ʿajamī is one of the oldest and most widespread forms of literature in Africa. This article draws scholars' attention to this unmapped terrain of knowledge. First, it provides a survey of major West African ʿajamī literary traditions and examines the nexus between the pedagogy of Aḥmadu Bamba and the development of Wolofal (Wolof ʿajamī). Then, with reference to excerpts from Sëriñ Masoxna
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Arens, Sarah, and Joseph Ford. "Introduction: Revisiting the Grotesque in Francophone African Literature." Irish Journal of French Studies 20, no. 1 (2020): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.7173/164913320830841656.

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The introduction provides an overview of the intellectual context for the thematic issue and outlines the complexities around the genesis of Achille Mbembe's 'Provisional Notes on the Postcolony' (1992). It examines how Mbembe's work ushered in a new era of discursive practices that sought to understand the role of the imagination in the operation of power in contemporary Africa and sketches how the articles of the thematic issue engage with the aesthetics of the grotesque that is a key element in the African political imagination. As a new group of populist leaders in the West exhibit traits
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Osinubi. "The African Atlantic: West African Literatures and Slavery Studies." Research in African Literatures 47, no. 1 (2016): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.1.149.

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Dunbar, Roberta Ann. "West African Textiles." African Arts 19, no. 1 (1985): 78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336390.

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Dunbar, Roberta Ann, and Charlotte Vestal Brown. "West African Textiles." African Arts 19, no. 1 (1985): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336396.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "West African Literature"

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Adebayo, Adebanke. "West African Feminism| Maneuvering the Reality of Feminism Using Osun." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10682016.

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<p> West African Women writers are constantly looking for ways to maneuver the patriarchal system within their indigenous cultures. To say maneuvering implies the dilemma in consciously navigating patriarchal epistemology as West African women, which in reality is not exotic to other feminist struggles outside the continent. To deal with the dilemma of constantly maneuvering, this thesis suggest for an indigenous framework. It suggests <i>Osun </i>&ndash;a Nigerian goddess&ndash; as a response to the theoretical problems and as a methodology to navigating a postcolonial patriarchal worldview i
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Axiotou, Georgia. "Breaking the silence : West African authors and the Transatlantic slave trade." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/3270.

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This thesis explores how Syl Cheney Coker’s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990), Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost (1964), Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments (1970), and Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave Girl (1979) respond to the need to revisit and re-think the history of transatlantic slavery. The texts of these four contemporary West African authors provide symptomatic instantiations of the problematic of writing silence, and narrating a history whose archives are impossible to fully retrieve. By attending to the violence and silencing committed on the history of slavery, as well as the diff
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Carr-West, Jonathan. "Cultures in motion : the negotiation of identity in francophone West African fiction." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.269558.

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Carr, Rachel McKenzie. "But What Has Helga Crane to Do with the West Indies? Plantation Afterlives in the Black Atlantic." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/102.

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“But What Has Helga Crane to Do with the West Indies? Plantation Afterlives in the Black Atlantic” situates the emergence of the southern gothic in modernist American and Caribbean works as a response to the shifting cultural narrative of the plantation in the twentieth century. In this project, I argue that the plantation seeps out of its place and time to haunt landscapes it may never have touched and times in which slavery is long over. While the plantation system is broadly recognized as a literary, political, and cultural force in nineteenth-century literary studies, I conceive it is also
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Brodnicka, Monika Luiza. "The ancient wor(l)d of knowledge invoking Amadou Hampaté Bâ's living tradition in West African tales of initiation, Sufi practice, and literature /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2007.

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Kempen, Laura Charlotte. "Words of deliverance : the (re)constitution of the disenfranchised feminine subject in selected works of West African and Latin American women writers /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6694.

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Addei, Cecilia. "Childhoods dis-ordered: Non-realist narrative modes in selected post-2000 West African war novels." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5447.

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD<br>This study explores how selected West African war novels employ non-realist narrative modes to portray disruptions in the child’s development into adulthood. The novels considered are Chris Abani’s Song for Night (2007), Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah is Not Obliged (2006), Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation (2005) and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen and Me (2005). These novels strain at the conventions of realism as a consequence of the attempt to represent the disruptions in child development as a result of the upheavals of war. A core proposition of t
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Coleman, Arvis R. (Arvis Renette) 1961. "The West African Trickster Tradition and the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277706/.

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Analyzing Chesnutt's fiction from the angle of the West African trickster tradition explains the varying interpretations of his texts and his authorial intentions. The discussion also illustrates the influence that audience and editorial concerns may have had on African-American authors at the turn of the century.
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Moahi, Refilwe M. "Women's Advancement in Francophone West Africa: A Comparison of Mali and Senegal." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/256.

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This research begins to explore what political tools are necessary to elevate women’s position in society by transforming legislation. Women in Francophone West Africa do not enjoy certain basic rights and there is need to improve their status. The promotion and appointment of women to the position of prime minister, Mame Madior Boyé in Senegal in 2001 and Mariam Kaidama Cissé Sidibé in Mali in 2011, gives us hope that women-friendly agendas will be given priority. I pose the question: Did the appointment of these two women to the heads of their respective governments improve the status of wom
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Baxter, Marion. "An analysis of the structural use of music, song and dance in certain novels by West African writers in relation to concepts of time." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1001825.

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The topic of this thesis is time in the West African novel in English and French, and the key approach is that West African time is readily grasped through a study of West African music. Though Western time is not exclusively or only linear, mechanical and exploitative, and African time not exclusively cyclic, synchronic and experiential, yet there is a characteristically African view of time and preferred modes of its employment in West African fiction. The novelists considered here wrote in European languages, yet each was a member of a specific cultural group and concerned to portray the ae
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Books on the topic "West African Literature"

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Shuter, Jane. Ancient West African kingdoms. Heinemann Library, 2003.

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Shuter, Jane. Ancient West African kingdoms. Heinemann Library, 2009.

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John, Haywood. West African kingdoms. Raintree, 2008.

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John, Elerius Edet. Literature and development: The west African experience. Paico Ltd., 1986.

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Chambers, Catherine. West African states: Before colonialism. Evans, 1999.

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1968-, Newell Stephanie, ed. Writing African women: Gender, popular culture, and literature in West Africa. Zed Books, 1997.

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Gareth, Griffiths. African literatures in English: East and West. Longman, 2000.

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Deandrea, Pietro. Fertile crossings: Metamorphoses of genre in anglophone West African literature. Rodopi, 2001.

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Begum, M. Farida. Feminism in west African novel. Prestige Books, 2010.

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Murphy, Laura. Metaphors of the slave trade in West African literature. Ohio University Press, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "West African Literature"

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Adesanmi, Pius. "Arrested Nationalism, Imposed Transnationalism, and the African Literature Classroom: One Nigerian Writer’s Learning Curve." In West African Migrations. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137012005_10.

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Norridge, Zoe. "Women’s Pains and the Creation of Meaning in Francophone Narratives from West Africa." In Perceiving Pain in African Literature. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137292056_4.

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Johnson, Michael K. "African American Literature and Culture and the American West." In A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781444396591.ch11.

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Moore, Mera. "West, East, Africa: Richard Wright’s Native Son and Classic Movie Monsters." In Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230119123_7.

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Hokkanen, Markku. "From Heroic Exploration to Careful Control: Mobility, Health, and Medicine in the British African Empire." In Medicine and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, History, and Culture. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17020-1_12.

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AbstractNineteenth-century explorers epitomised, in their public image, heroic, energetic, and enduring Victorian masculinity. The demands of mobility in challenging conditions and facing high risks to health were central to this image. This was particularly the case in tropical Africa. Among many mid- to late Victorians there was a common idea that keeping active and on the move in tropical conditions was healthy and that conversely immobility or slowness could be perilous. However, as the exploration of the African interior gave way to conquest and colonisation, ideas advocated for controlled, disciplined, and careful mobility gained ground. Although the image of the enduring, risk-taking mobile explorer persisted, it gradually gave way to depictions of more careful, controlled colonisers. Markku Hokkanen’s chapter analyses the changing relations between mobility, health and medicine in the contexts of British exploration and early settlement in tropical Africa in images, theories, and practices. Authors studied include David Livingstone, Horace Waller, and John Buchanan on South-Central Africa, and Mary Kingsley on West Africa.
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Mensah, Joseph, Joseph Kofi Teye, and Mary Boatemaa Setrana. "The Janus-Face of Contemporary Migration: Perspectives on West African Return Migration and Transnationalism with a Focus on Ghana and Senegal." In IMISCOE Research Series. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97322-3_12.

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AbstractRecently, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the return experience of migrants, with some analysts touting the benefits of return to the socioeconomic development of countries of origin, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Still, only few studies have examined how return migrants create and sustain transnational connectivity with their countries of destination upon their return to the homeland, and fewer still have analyzed how these dynamics play out in the context of West African migrants. This primarily theoretical paper explores the interconnections between return migration and transnationalism among West African migrants, focusing on the case of Ghanaian and Senegalese migrants. The insistent premise of the paper posits that contemporary migration is essentially Janus-faced, in the sense that migrants are transnational in both their pre- and post-return periods. The paper addresses the following questions: (i) What are the perspectives of Northern countries and supra-national bodies, such as the EU, on return migration, and how do these perspectives compare with those of Southern countries, such as Ghana and Senegal? (ii) How do West African migrants view their own return migration, and to what extent are their emic perspectives different from those of Northern governments and their government in the homeland? (iii) How do West African returnees—specifically, Ghanaian and Senegalese returnees—use their transitional connectivities to facilitate their resettlement and reintegration in the homeland upon their return? Clearly, return migration elicits a number of important questions, into which this Chapter stands to provide useful preliminary prescience in the context of Ghanaian and Senegalese migrants.
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Onukogu, Chioma Joyce. "Conceptualising Second Generation Immigrants in South Africa: The Experiences of Nigerian Second Generation Immigrants." In IMISCOE Research Series. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92114-9_11.

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AbstractMigration research emanating from the west and the global south about immigrant children has often concentrated on “migrant or refugee children.” Little attention is being paid to second generation immigrant children, who in most cases, have different migration trajectory. This chapter observes the gap in literature and presents a conceptualisation of second-generation from a South African perspective. Drawing on evidence from a qualitative study of 10 Nigerian second generation immigrant children in Johannesburg, South Africa, the chapter presents an understanding of a South African second generation immigrants. Place of birth, age at migration and parent’s immigration status at the time of birth are found to be factors that separate 1 s generation from another.
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Sambo, Pamela Towela. "An African Legal, Cultural and Religious Perspective of Sustainable Soil Governance." In International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy 2022. Springer International Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40609-6_13.

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AbstractThis chapter adopts a desktop review of diverse literature to understand the legal, cultural and religious underpinning of sustainable soil governance in Africa. The role of traditional knowledge systems in achieving sustainable soil governance in Africa will also be evaluated. The African Union recognises five geographic regions on the continent namely, North, South, West, East and Central. A sixth region consisting of people of African descent living outside the continent is also categorized but it is not materially relevant for the present analysis. The countries highlighted in this chapter are only used representatively of the entire continent to the extent possible. Africa is a large continent with diverse traditions, cultures and religions upon which the legal systems responsible for natural resources and environmental protection are anchored. It is therefore impossible to discuss any issue pertinent to the continent with homogeneity. Africa is no doubt one of the most resource-abundant continents. Natural resources such as gold, diamond, oil, natural gas, copper, uranium, among others are mined in different parts of the continent. Almost every country in Africa has a deposit of natural resources because the continent is endowed with about 97% of the world’s chromium, 90% of the world’s cobalt, 85% of the word’s platinum, 70% of the world’s cocoa, and 60% of the world’s coffee. Despite this abundance of natural resources, Africa is also among the poorest continents. One of the factors that has led to the continent’s extreme poverty levels is that the extraction of land or soil based natural resources is minimally utilised to the benefit of the African countries themselves. The process of natural resources extraction causes immense damage primarily to land and soil as well as the general environment. Against this background, this chapter assesses how culture, traditional norms and religion have shaped sustainable soil governance in Africa.
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Ameka, Felix K. "Chapter 6. Conceptions of the make-up of a human person in Ewe." In Culture and Language Use. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/clu.23.06ame.

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Humans everywhere construct ethnopsychological models of a person which involves a physical body and non-physical aspects. There is variation in how the non-physical parts of a person are construed. Invariably, it is assumed that this other part is “invisible inside” (Goddard, 2018, p. 168; Levisen, 2017; Peeters, 2019a). The question of what the components of a human person in African culture(s) are has been discussed, and debated in the literature (see e.g., Cotzee &amp; Roux, 2004). In this paper, I examine the conceptual model of a person in Ewe communities of practice in West Africa through the prism of language and the meanings of the terms for the ethnopsychological constructs of a person.
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Garba, Faisal, and Thomas Yeboah. "Free Movement and Regional Integration in the ECOWAS Sub-Region." In IMISCOE Research Series. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97322-3_2.

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AbstractThis chapter situates attempts at promoting free movement of persons and regional integration in West Africa in a historical perspective. Employing a combination of historical policy research, critical literature review, and an analysis of secondary data, the chapter provides a chronology of the development of the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) Protocol on Free Movement. This is done within the context of how the implementation of the Protocol facilitate human mobility and regional integration. The chapter pays attention to how the provision of the Protocol enables citizens of the West African region to take advantage of the opportunities in member states, and further explores some of the major challenges in the implementation of the Protocol. The chapter shows that the protocol on free movement allows ECOWAS citizens to continue to travel without visas within the region. Free movement of persons in the region has yielded great economic benefits in terms of boosting intra-regional trade, supporting the livelihoods of Community citizens and increasing remittance flows within the region. Nevertheless, there are still challenges associated with extortion and harassment of migrants at border crossings, and a lack of coherence between the member state national laws and the ECOWAS Protocols has meant that protocol is yet to be fully realised. The chapter also presents analysis of the prospects of recent attempts at strengthening the protocol such as the proposal to lift the provision/restriction that allows/limits member states’ citizens to enter and stay for maximum of 90 days and the proposal for the establishment of a common social security across the region.
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Conference papers on the topic "West African Literature"

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Murashko, V. V., and D. A. Krivenko. "Range reconstruction of the genus Cicer L. (Leguminosae)." In Problems of studying the vegetation cover of Siberia. TSU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/978-5-94621-927-3-2020-26.

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Based on herbarium and literature data, chorological maps were produced for 47 species of the genus Cicer, this made it possible to clarify the natural boundaries of the species and genus ranges. The species richness map was produced using the method of grid mapping. It identified five geographically isolated areas of modern species diversity: North African, Anatolian-Mediterranean, East African, East of West Asian, Central Asian. Phytogeographic measures are given for each cluster, such as area occupied, total number of species and number of endemics. It was established that the hotspot of mo
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Onyewuchi, Francis A., Michael A. Adewusi, Peter Okebukola, Tokunbo Odekeye, Olasunkanmi Gbeleyi, and Fred Awaah. "Breaking the Backbone of Difficult Concepts in the New Secondary School Physics Curriculum in Africa." In 28th iSTEAMS Multidisciplinary Research Conference AIUWA The Gambia. Society for Multidisciplinary and Advanced Research Techniques - Creative Research Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22624/aims/isteams-2021/v28n3p7.

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The new senior secondary school physics curriculum for Anglophone West African countries came into use in 2015. Since the beginning of its implementation, even though, the performance of the candidates has not been high, yet reported empirical studies on the difficulty level of the content, and specifically the topics or concepts have been scant. Moreover, there have never been any published studies which conducted an in-depth probe into the aspects of the topics students find difficult in physics and science in general, beyond mere cataloguing of such topics, nor have there been any, in which
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Wallstén, David, Gregory Axton, Anna Bakidou, Eunji Lee, Bengt Arne Sjöqvist, and Stefan Candefjord. "'Design for integrating explainable AI for dynamic risk prediction in prehospital IT systems." In AHFE 2023 Hawaii Edition. AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004199.

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Demographic changes in the West with an increasingly elderly population puts stress on current healthcare systems. New technologies are necessary to secure patient safety. AI development shows great promise in improving care, but the question of how necessary it is to be able to explain AI results and how to do it remains to be evaluated in future research. This study designed a prototype of eXplainable AI (XAI) in a prehospital IT system, based on an AI model for risk prediction of severe trauma to be used by Emergency Medical Services (EMS) clinicians. The design was then evaluated on seven
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Reddy, Reddem Jalaja, Mrinmoy Roy, T. Giri Teja, and Dr R. Sarala. "Assessing Health Care Students' Knowledge, Attitude, and Preparedness Towards Monkeypox." In 4th International Conference on Public Health and Well-being. iConferences (Pvt) Ltd, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.32789/publichealth.2022.1013.

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During the covid-19 pandemic, many people don’t know the causes, effects, and modes of transmission of the new virus, and the entire world is in a panic state. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), monkeypox is currently on the rise and has spread to Africa. An orthopoxviral based zoonotic illness known as monkeypox causes a smallpox-like vesicular pustular illness in humans. The evolution of monkeypox, epidemiology, with a focus on the number of confirmed, likely, and/or potential cases, age at presentation, mortality, and geographic distribution of cases across West and Central A
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Keprate, Arvind, and R. M. Chandima Ratnayake. "Riser Concept Selection for FPSO in Deepwater Norwegian Sea: A Case Study." In ASME 2018 37th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2018-78344.

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Selecting a riser concept for FPSOs stationed in deep water has posed challenges, due to the high hydrostatic pressure and large vessel payload. One of the major factors governing the riser concept selection for deepwater FPSOs is the geographical location and weather conditions prevalent in the region. For example, the free hanging flexible riser has been mostly used in the moderate environments of offshore Brazil, while concepts like the SCR and Hybrid Riser Tower (HRT) are dominant in the calm weather conditions of the West of Africa (WoA). Selecting a riser concept for an FPSO stationed in
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Seal, H., G. Alborzi, and M. Watson. "Detailed Modelling of Displacement and Hot Oiling of a Waxy Non-Newtonian Fluid in a Mature West Africa Deep Water Production Facility." In Offshore Technology Conference. OTC, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4043/35250-ms.

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Abstract This study investigates the feasibility of a changeover of displacement and hot oiling fluid from diesel to dead crude in a mature West Africa deep-water production facility from a flow assurance perspective. It addresses the practical challenges associated with the dead crude displacement and hot oiling procedures as well as the technical challenges of transient modelling of a waxy non-Newtonian fluid through both insulated and uninsulated piping. Modelling was performed using commercial software packages to simulate the existing diesel displacement and hot oiling procedures and to t
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Coca Suaznabar, Paola Adriana, Kazuo Miura, and Celso Kazuyuki Morooka. "Verifying Production Losses due to Petroleum Flow Improving Well Intervention and Design." In ASME 2016 35th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2016-54820.

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The purpose of this research is to identify in the literature: causes, factors, case study descriptions and adopted solutions for production losses regarding the petroleum flow in offshore oil wells. Those facts will be organized and structured to identify potential zones of intervention for planning the well maintenance during well design phase to avoid production losses. This paper focuses on four offshore regions: Campos Basin, Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, and West Africa. These regions represent the most significant share of offshore oil production in the world. Data set available in the las
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Campbell, Scott, Ricardo Bueno, Sinasi Eren, and Malik Faisal Abdullah. "Salt Drilling: The State of the Art." In International Petroleum Technology Conference. IPTC, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2523/iptc-21165-ms.

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Abstract Drilling though salt is not a new challenge in the petroleum industry, with successful exploration and appraisal wells in salt environments paving the way for complex field developments. A detailed summary of how these advancements have subsequently evolved into the technology and methods being used today is presented. The numerous challenges, and the resulting solutions, of drilling in salt environments are well documented; a comprehensive review of the relevant published industry literature has been conducted. Additionally, workshops with several major service vendors have been held
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Bocci, Martina. "Is there a future for marginal communities?" In HERITAGE2022 International Conference on Vernacular Heritage: Culture, People and Sustainability. Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/heritage2022.2022.15218.

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In relatively marginal and isolated settings, changes in socio-cultural contexts and population reduction have contributed to the decay, abandonment and gradual disappearance of traditional ways of living and vernacular heritage. Associations and foundations often play a key mediating and facilitating role in countering these phenomena, supporting the survival of local communities and tangible and intangible expressions of heritage.In the context of the seminar cycle “Rehabilitation of traditional heritage and local development”, ten international case studies of unconventional practices of co
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Morooka, Celso K., and Maria Deolinda B. M. de Carvalho. "Evaluation of Alternatives for Offshore Petroleum Production System in Deep and Ultradeep Water Depth." In ASME 2011 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2011-49978.

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Different equipments combined compose an offshore petroleum production system. Several development alternatives are available for a given offshore petroleum field. The selection of the most suitable system for a given scenario depends on field development characteristics and strategies such as its geographical location, water depth, environmental conditions and knowledge about similar systems already selected and in use for oil and gas production and available infrastructure in around. For the purpose of field production system design a database with types of production platforms, mooring syst
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Tarif, Kheira. Climate Change and Violent Conflict in West Africa: Assessing the Evidence. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55163/vhiy5372.

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West Africa is widely cited as a hotspot of climate change and insecurity. This SIPRI Insights uses a systematic literature review of academic research to build a better understanding of the relationship between climate change and violent conflict in the region. Its findings are structured around four established ‘pathways’ of climate insecurity: (a) worsening livelihood conditions; (b) increasing migration and changing pastoral mobility patterns; (c) tactical considerations by armed groups; and (d) elite exploitation of local grievances. The literature review highlights a number of important
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Niang, Aminata, Lansine Sountoura, Kaderi Bukari, Imogen Bellwood-Howard, and Peter Taylor. Collaborative Art-Making for Deliberation in Africa. Institute of Development Studies, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/ids.2023.036.

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Across West Africa and East Africa, policy actors and citizens have tended to discuss socio-environmental issues in ways that recognise emotional, subjective viewpoints, but can be antagonistic. Although deliberation literature suggests that collaborative arts-based activities can encourage consideration of affective dimensions, their major value in these emotive, hierarchical and antagonistic contexts is to promote more convivial working relationships.
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Breiman, Adina, Jan Dvorak, Abraham Korol, and Eduard Akhunov. Population Genomics and Association Mapping of Disease Resistance Genes in Israeli Populations of Wild Relatives of Wheat, Triticum dicoccoides and Aegilops speltoides. United States Department of Agriculture, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2011.7697121.bard.

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Wheat is the most widely grown crop on earth, together with rice it is second to maize in total global tonnage. One of the emerging threats to wheat is stripe (yellow) rust, especially in North Africa, West and Central Asia and North America. The most efficient way to control plant diseases is to introduce disease resistant genes. However, the pathogens can overcome rapidly the effectiveness of these genes when they are wildly used. Therefore, there is a constant need to find new resistance genes to replace the non-effective genes. The resistance gene pool in the cultivated wheat is depleted a
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What are the main barriers and facilitating factors associated with intergenerational communication on sexual and reproductive health in Niger and Côte d’Ivoire? Population Council, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/sbsr2022.1029.

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When parents communicate with their youth on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues, they have a greater influence on youth SRH behaviors. But parents’ lack of knowledge of SRH, low self-efficacy in engaging young people, and unfavorable social norms about communication and youth access to SRH information are barriers to open intergenerational communication. Breakthrough RESEARCH conducted a qualitative study in Niger and Côte d’Ivoire to better understand the specific barriers to intergenerational communication about SRH, and ways in which adult allies can be supported to engage young pe
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Quels sont les principaux obstacles et facteurs de facilitation associés à la communication intergénérationnelle sur la SSR au Niger et en Côte d’Ivoire? Population Council, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/sbsr2022.1030.

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When parents communicate with their youth on sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues, they have a greater influence on youth SRH behaviors. But parents’ lack of knowledge of SRH, low self-efficacy in engaging young people, and unfavorable social norms about communication and youth access to SRH information are barriers to open intergenerational communication. Breakthrough RESEARCH conducted a qualitative study in Niger and Côte d’Ivoire to better understand the specific barriers to intergenerational communication about SRH, and ways in which adult allies can be supported to engage young pe
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Compendium: Community-based Armed Groups in Sub-Saharan Africa: RESOLVE Network Research 2018-2022. RESOLVE Network, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37805/cbags2022.5.

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This compendium brings together the collected work of RESOLVE’s 2018–2022 Community-Based Armed Groups Research Initiative. Launched in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development Africa Bureau, this research initiative sought to fill a gap in the literature on community-based armed groups in sub-Saharan Africa—often key actors in conflict-affected and fragile contexts, but highly localized and not well-understood. The papers in this volume are presented in a series of phases corresponding to the development of the research. Phase One involved mapping the existing literature
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COMPENDIUM: Community-based Armed Groups in Sub-Saharan Africa: RESOLVE Network Research 2018-2022. RESOLVE Network, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.37805/cbags2023.1.

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This compendium brings together the collected work of RESOLVE’s 2018–2022 Community-Based Armed Groups Research Initiative. Launched in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development Africa Bureau, this research initiative sought to fill a gap in the literature on community-based armed groups in sub-Saharan Africa—often key actors in conflict-affected and fragile contexts, but highly localized and not well-understood. The papers in this volume are presented in a series of phases corresponding to the development of the research. Phase One involved mapping the existing literature
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Breakthrough RESEARCH—Social and Behavior Change Costing Community of Practice Series Brief #2: Understanding the costs of SBC social media interventions. Population Council, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/sbsr2021.1088.

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While the use of social media for social and behavior change (SBC) has grown, there is limited evidence on the costs of these types of interventions. In a recent literature review, no peer reviewed studies on the costs of SBC via social media interventions in low- and middle-income countries were identified. To help address this gap, this brief identifies key considerations for costing SBC via social media, given the unique nature of social media platforms, and provides an applied example from the Merci Mon Héros (Thank You, My Hero) project, a youth-led multi-media campaign in Francophone Wes
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