Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Yamba (Cameroon and Nigeria)'

This paper deals with the tonology of Yamba, a previously undescribed West African language spoken in northeastern Cameroons along the Nigerian border. It is classified as an Eastern Grassfields Bantu language belonging to the Benue-Congo group of Niger-Congo languages.The tonology of the language is first discussed from the viewpoint of the overall system of tones and tone melodies. The following chapters deal with the manifestation of this system on individual word classes: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and auxiliaries. Reduplication is discussed separately in the last chapter because reduplicated words frequently do not have the same set of tone melodies that otherwise belong to their respective word classes.

One of the most important aspects of monetary policy is an understanding of the transmission process: the mechanism through which the monetary policy actions of the Central Bank impact on aggregate demand and prices by influencing the investment and consumption decisions of households and firms. Thus, commercial banks are regarded as conveyers of monetary policy shocks and are expected to adjust retail interest rates in response to policy shocks one-to-one. In practice, commercial banks adjust their retail rates in response to changes in monetary policy with a lag of several months and this delay is often viewed as an impediment on the ability of the Central Bank to steer the economy. Several reasons, such as credit rationing and adverse selection, switching costs, risk sharing, consumer irrationality, structure of the financial system, menu costs and asymmetric information are some of the causes advanced for commercial banks retail rates being sticky. In spite of the important role of pass-through analysis in the monetary policy transmission process, it has received very little attention in Sub-Saharan Africa, especially in Cameroon and Nigeria, which have implemented a series of reforms. To this end, this study gives a comparative analysis of interest rate pass-through in Nigeria and Cameroon using retail rates (lending and deposit) and a discount rate (policy rate) from January 1990 to December 2010 for Nigeria and from January 1990 to June 2008 for Cameroon. The study examines the magnitude and speed of retail rate adjustments to changes in the Central Bank policy rate as well as examining the possibility of symmetric and asymmetric pass-through in both countries. In addition, the study also investigates whether there is pass-through of monetary policy from one country to the other. The empirical analysis employs four different types of co-integration techniques to test the presence of a long run co-integrating relationship between retail and the policy rates in order to ensure that the relationship detected is robust. Three sets of analyses are carried out in the study. Following Cottarelli and Kourelis (1994), the study employed a co-integration technique, firstly, to analyse pass-through for the entire sample, secondly, to analyse symmetric and asymmetric pass-through using a ten year rolling window analysis in an error correction framework. Finally, the policy rates were swapped around to investigate if there are transmissions of impulses from one country to the other. Overall, evidence from the entire sample and rolling window analysis suggests that monetary policy in Cameroon is less effective. This is perhaps one of the reasons why the Banque Des Etats De L’Afrique Centrale (BEAC) is unable to sterilise the excess liquidity of the banking sector in Cameroon. The long run pass-through of 0.72 and 0.71 for the entire sample, and the average long run pass-through for the rolling window of 0.78 and 0.76 for the lending and deposit rates, suggest that monetary policy is highly effective in Nigeria compared to Cameroon. The empirical evidence confirmed asymmetric adjustment in six rolling windows in the lending rate in Nigeria. Three rolling windows indicated that the direction of rigidity is downward, supporting Scholnick’s (1996) collusive pricing arrangement between banks, and the other three suggested that the lending rate is rigid in the upward direction, corroborating Scholnick’s (1996) customer reaction hypothesis. The deposit rate in Cameroon was also found to adjust asymmetrically and the direction of rigidity is downward, supporting Hannan and Berger’s (1991) customer reaction hypothesis. The investigation of impulse transmission between the two countries revealed that only the policy rate in Nigeria exerts some influence on the deposit rate in Cameroon. Policy recommendations are also discussed.

The goal of this study was to examine several aspects of the population genetics and population biology of the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee at seven sampling locations in the south of Taraba State, Nigeria. Three of the sampling locations are within GGNP and two are situated just outside the southern boundary of GGNP. The final two sampling locations are found within Ngel Nyaki forest reserve, at each of the two forest fragments inside the reserve. Ngel Nyaki forest reserve was the focus of the study and the principal goal was to 16 determine if the community of chimpanzees at Ngel Nyaki forest reserve has become isolated from the chimpanzees at GGNP using microsatellite loci extracted from non-invasive sources of DNA. In Chapter two, the methods used to extract and amplify the DNA and the protocols used to confirm the genotypes are outlined. Chapter three examines the population structure of the chimpanzees among the regions sampled in this study, particularly addressing the question as to whether the chimpanzees at Ngel Nyaki forest reserve are isolated from the chimpanzees at GGNP. Chapter four investigates patterns of sex biased dispersal in the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee. In Chapter five, population viability analysis is used to determine the fate of the chimpanzees at Ngel Nyaki forest reserve under a range of management scenarios. Chapter six summarizes the conclusions of the study and presents a conservation strategy to ensure the viability of the population of chimpanzees at Ngel Nyaki forest reserve.

Working as agents for their patients, health care providers often make treatment decisions on the patient’s behalf. By establishing common standards, clinical guidelines are central to efforts to improve patient care and can expedite the introduction of new technologies. Each year considerable resources are used to disseminate clinical guidelines, though conventional public health interventions often have a limited effect in changing providers’ practice. Using economic theory and methods, research was undertaken to design and evaluate interventions to support the roll-out of malaria rapid diagnostic testing. This thesis contains five research papers on providers’ knowledge, preference and practice in treating patients with malaria symptoms in Cameroon and Nigeria. In this setting, uncomplicated malaria is routinely diagnosed and treated by health workers in outpatient departments and primary health centres, or self-treated using antimalarials purchased at pharmacies and drug stores. Major problems with malaria diagnosis and treatment were identified. Relatively few febrile patients were tested for malaria, many did not receive the recommended antimalarial, and when patients were tested for malaria the test result was often ignored when treatment was prescribed. Moreover, there was no significant relationship between providers’ knowledge and their practice, and preferences over alternative antimalarials were similar among providers working in the same facility or locality. The results of a cluster randomized trial in Cameroon demonstrated that introducing rapid diagnostic tests with enhanced training, which targeted providers’ practice, was more cost-effective than introducing rapid diagnostic tests with basic training, when each was compared to current practice. Since the trial concluded, the Ministry of Health has incorporated the enhanced training in the nationwide roll-out of rapid diagnostic testing. The findings are also relevant for policy makers elsewhere, and highlight the value in developing strategies to improve providers’ adherence to malaria treatment guidelines when expanding access to malaria testing.

Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2005.
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Magister Artium (Development Studies) - MA(DVS)
Remittances inflows have gradually become one of the major sources of external financial inflows to developing countries. As a result, research abounds on the developmental effects of remittances in the home countries of migrants. At the micro level, recipients of remittances are more likely to have better access to quality health care, education as well as start-up fund for their own businesses. On the other hand at the macro level, remittances inflows can help increase the credit worthiness of countries by enabling them to use future remittances inflows as collateral for loans. Additionally, remittances inflows as a source of foreign exchange can be used by countries to fund import bills. Although there has been a surge of scholarship on remittances, this scholarship seems to be concentrated on the economic study of migration instead of the macroeconomic aspects of remittances. Furthermore, comparative studies on these macroeconomic aspects of remittances especially on African countries are underresearched and remains at the backwaters of academic study. Using quantitative time series data, this research seeks to do a comparative study on the countercyclical nature of remittances in four selected West African countries (Cameroon, Cape Verde, Nigeria and Senegal). The research used descriptive trend analysis, autocorrelation and an ARMAX model analyse the research problem. After critical analysis on whether remittances are countercyclical or not using the 2009 global financial crisis as a reference year in these four countries, it was found that, remittance inflows to Cameroon, Cape Verde, Nigeria and Senegal were pro-cyclical in nature. Moreover, in analysing the relationship between remittances inflows and gross domestic product (economic growth) the research revealed that there was a positive relationship between remittances inflows and economic growth for the four countries (Cameroon, Cape Verde, Nigeria and Senegal) observed. One recommendation given from this study is that, there is the need for remittances inflows to be invested in productive activities. This is because even if remittances continue to increase, without its investment in productive sectors, it cannot have any meaningful impact on economic growth in these countries.

The embeddedness of Pentecostal/Charismatic tenets within contemporary global frameworks of transnational power reveals the ability of religion to shape the sociocultural and spiritual experiences of people on the move from one place to another. For this reason, sociologists of religion and scholars of World Christianity have noted the rapid missionary expansion of African Pentecostal/Charismatic movements to the northern hemisphere. Some have even referred to the missionary work of non-western forms of Christianity in the western world as the ‘Southernisation of European Christianity’. But if the aggressive strategies adopted by African Pentecostal/Charismatic churches in the western diaspora are intended to reawaken Christianity in Europe, what then is the motivation for intra-African Pentecostal/Charismatic movements in traversing national boundaries, with their distinctive version of the Christian faith, making Africa a theatre in which Christian missionaries are both sent and received? This thesis examines the intra-African missionary praxis of a highly influential Nigerian Pentecostal/Charismatic church, the Winners’ Chapel, and its accompanying power dynamics in Cameroon from 1996 to 2016. Using a qualitative research approach, the study examines the character of transnational Pentecostal/Charismatic movements in Africa, using Winners’ Chapel in Cameroon as a case study. After an investigation of the emergence of the church, the study examines the various strategies used to achieve and maintain control of the mother church in Nigeria over its daughter church in Cameroon, such as the deployment of Nigerian missionaries, the use of Nigerian-defined Winners’ Chapel tenets in Cameroon, the place of sermons and testimonies, and the role of the media. The thesis studies the conflicts of loyalty and contestations that emerge between Nigerian Winners’ Chapel missionaries to Cameroon and their Cameroonian colleagues in Cameroon. It concludes with an assessment of how far Winners’ Chapel can be said to contribute to the provision of social capital and empowerment in Cameroon. The findings in this study provide a significant and original contribution to the understanding of how power dynamics can operate within complex relationships between transnational Pentecostal/Charismatic actors (missionaries), and their receiving countries colleagues in the continent of Africa. It also contributes to the literature on African Pentecostalism but offers fresh insights into the encounters, contestations, and resistance that emerge between ‘founder-owners’ and recruited workers of intra-African Pentecostal/Charismatic Movements. By appropriating international relations concepts such as Joseph Nye’s ideas of ‘soft power’ and concepts in the sociology of religion such as Peggy Levitt’s ‘remittances’, popularised by Afe Adogame, the study potentially unveils the nexus between international relations, the sociology of religion and development within Pentecostalist transnational discourses in Africa.

The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the various reasons that have contributed to the decisionof international students not to return to their home countries after completing their studies, with a focus on students from Rwanda, Nigeria, and Cameroon. The study will include information about student’s home countries to provide a greater understanding of where they come from and how this has contributed to the decisions they have made. The push and pull factor theory will help to understand the different reasons why people choose to immigrate instead of staying in their home countries and what becomes a pull factor in the whole process. To gain even more insight into the students' choice not to return home, semistructured interviews with the 10 individuals will become important. By interviewing the 10 individuals from Rwanda, Nigeria, and Cameroon, one could tell that the countries have had amajor impact on the students' choice not to return home. Results showed that many chose not to return home because of the political instability that council in their home countries, some also felt living a life where they did not have to worry about tomorrow was an important factor in not going back home. The conclusion drawn was that countries were losing talented people because of their inability to put the needs of their citizens first.

Les bassins sédimentaires d'Hamakoussou et du Mayo Oulo-Léré sont des bassins à sédiments continentaux. Ils se situent en territoire camerounais, dans le prolongement de la branche de Yola de direction Est-Ouest du Fossé de la Bénoué dont la mise en place est liée à l'ouverture de l'Atlantique Sud à partir de la dislocation du Gondwana. L'âge de ces bassins est basé sur des études biochronologiques les situant dans le Crétacé inférieur. La série sédimentaire est sensiblement la même dans les deux bassins, elle est constituée de dépôts fluviatiles à fluviolacustres montrant une alternance de grés, de siltite et d'argilite.Des prélèvements paléomagnétiques ont été effectués sur des niveaux fins situés dans la partie supérieure de la série sédimentaire de chaque section. Dans le bassin sédimentaire d'Hamakoussou, 50 échantillons sur 11 sites d'épaisseur égale à 69 m, ont été prélevés dans la localité de Djallou et 78 échantillons sur 20 sites d'une épaisseur de 511 m dans la localité d'Ourokessoum. Dans le bassin du Mayo Oulo-Léré, 116 échantillons sur 45 sites sur une épaisseur de 478 m ont été prélevés dans la localité de Tchontchi.La désaimantation progressive au champ alternatif et à la température de ces échantillons montre que les séries sédimentaires de ces bassins portent une aimantation primaire. Les directions d'aimantation ont permis de déceler une tectonique régionale marquée par un mouvement de rotation autour de l'axe vertical et un mouvement de translation des blocs. Les minéraux magnétiques porteurs de cette aimantation sont de faible, moyenne et de forte coercivité. Une séquence de trois polarités a été déterminée le long de chaque section du bassin d'Hamakoussou : une polarité inverse et deux polarités normales. Dans le bassin du Mayo Oulo-Léré, la section Mayo a livré deux polarités dont une normale et une, inverse. La séquence de polarités obtenue pour chaque coupe a été corrélée avec l'échelle de temps de polarités magnétiques. Les trois polarités des coupes du bassin d'Hamakoussou ont été corrélées avec les chrones M1 et M3 avec un âge compris entre 125 Ma et 128,11 Ma. La séquence d'inversions de la coupe du Mayo Oulo-Léré a été corrélée avec le chrone M1 avec un âge compris entre 125 Ma et 127,61 Ma. Le taux de sédimentation des dépôts du bassin d'Hamakoussou varie entre 5,5 cm/ma et 40,5 cm/ma et est de 38 cm/ma dans la section du Mayo Oulo-Léré
Hamakoussou and Mayo Oulo-Léré sedimentary basins are extension of the executive branch of East-West Yola Benue Trough, whose formation is related to the opening of the South Atlantic from the dislocation of Gondwana, in the Cameroonian territory. An age range of lower Cretaceous to Barremian-Hauterivian limit has been assigned based on biochronological studies. The sedimentary sequence in both basins is composed upward finnings fluivial to fluviolacustrine deposits. The deposits present an alternation of fine grained sandstone, siltstone and mudstone overlying coarse sandstone which is underlain by micro-conglomerate to conglomerate facies at the base.A magnetostratigraphic study has been carried out on a fine sediments in the upper part of each sections. 50 samples from about 69.03 m thickness, were collected from 11 sites at Djallou and 78 samples, about 511.03 m thickness, were collected from 20 sites at Ourokessoum localities in the Hamakoussou basin ; and 116 samples, about 478.19 m thickness, collected from 45 sites at Tchontchi locality in the Mayo Oulo-Lere basin.Specimens subjected to progressive alternating field and thermal demagnetization show that the sedimentary sequences have a primary magnetization. The directions of magnetization indicate a regional tectonic marked by a rotation and translation block. Rock magnetic investigations reveal the presence of both high and low coercivity minerals. A sequence of three polarities was determined along each section of the Hamakoussou basin: one reversal polarity and two normal polarities, whereas two polarities: (normal and a reversal) were determined along Mayo section in the Mayo Oulo-Lere basin The three polarities sequences from the two sections from Hamakoussou basin are correlated with M1 and M3 Chrons and suggest an age between 125 and 128, 11 My. While the two polarities sequences from the Mayo Oulo-Lere basin are correlated with M1 Chron, and suggest an age between 125 and 127.61 My. The sedimentation rates of Hamakoussou basin deposits vary between 5.5 cm/kyr and 40.88 cm/kyr and 38.26 cm/kyr in the section of Mayo Oulo-Lere basin

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The title asks, but inside, these historians and political scientists from Africa and Europe assert that all across Africa the problems, challenges, and implications posed by civil militias¿Sudan's Janjaweed currently most in the news¿have elevated them into the continent's intractable security menace. Between discussions of a theoretical construction of the militias as a social phenomenon, and of international experiences and implications, they cite examples. Among these the Kamajor in Sierra Leone, a comparison of Nigeria and Indonesia, threats to national and human security in West Africa, Darfur of course, anti-gang militias in Cameroon, and Uganda since 1986. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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國立臺灣大學
法律學研究所
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ABSTRACT This thesis aims to encompass the issue concerning the Gulf of Guinea maritime boundary delimitation from the perspective of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe (hereinafter, Sao Tome and Principe) with particular reference to 2002 Land and Maritime Boundary Delimitation between Cameroon and Nigeria case. On 29 March 1994, the Republic of Cameroon filed an application before the International Court of Justice (I.C.J.) instituting proceedings against the Federal Republic of Nigeria in respect of a dispute described as “relating essentially to the question of sovereignty over the Bakassi Peninsula.” In addition, on 30 June 1999, the Republic of Equatorial Guinea instituted before the ICJ an application for permission to intervene in the case pursuant to article 62 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice. The object was to seek protection of its legal rights and interests in the Gulf of Guinea by all legal means available and to inform the Court of the nature of its legal rights and interests that could be affected by the Court’s decision. Contrarily to Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe however chose not to intervene on any basis, nor did pronounce any concern regarding the Court’s deliberation. Thus, in light of those concerns, this thesis tries to find out the underlying reasons of why Sao Tome and Principe choose not to intervene; secondly to find out what are the Sao Tome and Principe legal rights and interests in the Gulf of Guinea; and further to know how Sao Tome and Principe sees its legal rights and interests from the Court’s deliberation. The present thesis consists of five chapters. Chapter I present a brief introduction of geographical, historical and legal perspectives of the Gulf of Guinea. Chapter II presents an historical analysis of the Law of the Sea. Chapter III discusses and makes a comparative analysis of the International Court of Justice’s deliberation in case concerning Land and Maritime Boundary Delimitation between Cameroon and Nigeria. Chapter IV elaborates on Gulf of Guinea Maritime Boundary from the perspective of Sao Tome and Principe with a particular reference to 2002 Land and Maritime Boundary between Cameroon and Nigeria. Chapter V gives an conclusion of the overall thesis.

The Gulf of Guinea Highlands is a unique mountane range of volcanic origin, situated on the African mainland in the borther of Nigeria and Cameroon, and the Gulf of Guinea islands of Bioko, S?o Tomé and Príncipe. This area is highly unique as the only large mountains in central and western Africa. The high degree of isolation of these mountains generated high degree of endemism of many groups of organisms; the whole region is thus one of the world biodiversity hotspots (known as the West African Forests). Despite its tremnedous conservation importance, this mountain range is under strong anthropogenic influence, as one of the most densely populated areas in tropical Africa. Despite all these factors, the conservation efforts in West Africa focused mainly on lowland areas of rain forests, whilst only few conservation effort is focused to the mountain habitats. As the other result, the lack of comprehensive biogeographic and phytogeographical studies of mountain flora and fauna is obvious. In this work, I have summarized the results of all crucial studies of the biogeography of the Gulf of Guinea Highlands. I also obtained sequences of three mitochondrial genes (COI, COII, and ND1) of an endemic montane butterfly Bicyclus anisops. Variability in the studied genes was relatively low. Phylogenetic analyses separated haplotypes into 7 well-established groups (1st Mt. Cameroon, 2nd Nkogam I, 3rd Nkogam II, 4th Bakossi-Kupe-Manengouba-Bani, 5th Mbam, 7th Hosséré Enla Fabo 6th all others localities (tj. Bamenda-Banso Mts., Acha Tugi, Mbam, Ngel Nyaki, Gotel Mts.)) but did not significantly resolved relationships among them. Based on the hyplotype diversity of B. anisops as an umbrella species, Mt. Cameroon, Nkogam, Mbam Massif, Mbiame, Hosséré Enla Fabo, Mt. Manengouba, Mt. Kupe and Mt. Oku are considered as localities of the highest conservation importance.

Depuis au moins 500 ans, au sud du bassin du lac Tchad, la région des monts Mandara représente la rencontre géographique et culturelle entre deux mondes aux modes de pensée opposés : les populations des montagnes, égalitaires et non-islamisées, et celles des plaines environnantes, vivant sous le contrôle hiérarchique d’États islamiques, tels que Bornou et Wandala. Cette thèse s’inscrit dans une longue tradition de recherches archéologiques et ethnologiques entreprises depuis une quarantaine d’années dans cette région du monde afin de documenter le rapport ambigu qui existe entre ces deux systèmes sociopolitiques, au passé et au présent. Entre 1993 et 2012, les équipes d’archéologues du Projet Maya Wandala (PMW) et du Projet DGB (Diygyd- bay) ont mis sur pied l’une des plus grosses bases de données céramiques uniformisées de la région. Suivant une approche holistique, diachronique et régionale de la question des contacts culturels en zone frontalière, cette étude porte sur le décor céramique de 150 000 tessons issus de ce corpus. Provenant de huit sites clés du Nord-Cameroun et du Nord-Nigéria, ces petits objets racontent plus de 3000 ans d’histoire de cette région, du Néolithique jusqu’à la fin de l’Âge du Fer Final. Les méthodes d’analyses statistiques de classement (cluster analysis) par nuées dynamiques (k-moyennes) et d’agrégation Ward ont été mises à profit afin d’explorer les similarités et les différences de ces collections, à travers le temps et l’espace. Par la comparaison de mes résultats avec les données archéologiques, ethnologiques et historiques de notre région d’étude, une histoire chronologique de chacun des sites est proposée. Sur le site DGB-1/-2, plus important témoin à ce jour de l’occupation préhistorique des montagnes, les lieux de vie quotidienne, cooking area par exemple, se distinguent de ceux qui servent à l’aménagement physique, entre autres les remblais, malgré la similitude des décors céramique qu’on y retrouve. L’identification de quatre groupes aux décors céramiques particuliers met en exergue les différences qui apparaissent entre les populations des plaines et des montagnes, ainsi qu’entre les populations des plaines associées à l’élite étatique de Wandala, et les autres. Dans le contexte de la mise en place des premiers États centralisateurs dans la région, nous voyons donc comment ce phénomène historique d’importance a eu des répercussions non seulement sur l’occupation et la perception du paysage, mais également sur l’identité céramique.
For the last 500 years at least, in the southern area of Lake Tchad, the Mandara Mountains region represents the geographical and cultural meeting point of two contrasting ways of thinking: the egalitarian and non-Muslim populations of the mountains; and the populations of the surrounding plains—dominated by the hierarchical authority of Islamic states, including Bornou and Wandala states. This thesis is the continuation of a long tradition of archaeological and ethnological research completed during the last 40 years in this region. Its aim is to document the ambiguous relationship that exists between these two socio-political systems, in the past and the present. Between 1993 and 2012, teams of archaeologists working on both the Projet Maya Wandala (PMW) and the Projet DGB (Diy-gyd-bay) established one of the largest ceramic databases in the region. Following a holistic, diachronic and regional approach regarding the issue of cultural contacts in the border area, the present thesis focuses on the analysis on ceramic decoration from this dataset. These potsherds (n=150,000), originating from eight key archaeological sites located in Northern Cameroon and Northern Nigeria, tell the story of the region spanning more than 3000 years, dating from the Neolithic to the end of the Late Iron Age (LIA). Methods of statistical analysis, such as cluster analysis by dynamic clustering (K-Means) and Ward aggregation, have been used in order to explore both similarities and differences present in these collections, through time and space. After a comparison of my results with the archaeological, ethnological and historical data of the study area, a chronology of these sites is proposed based on the ceramic data. On the DGB- 1/-2 site, the most important evidence of prehistoric occupation of the mountains, the domestic spaces, such as the cooking area, are differentiated from those used for redeposited materials, despite the similarity of ceramic decorations found there. The identification of four groups of distinct ceramic decorations underlines the differences that arise between the lowland populations and those from the mountains, as well as between the lowland populations associated with the Wandala elite, and other groups. In the context of the emergence of the first centralised states in this region, we can see how this important historical phenomenon had consequences, not only on occupation and the use of the landscape, but also on ceramic identity.