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Studying and teaching ethnic African languages for Pan-African consciousness, Pan-Africanism and the African Renaissance: A Decolonising Task

open access: yes, 2021
In order to conquer and subjugate Africans, at the 1884 Berlin Conference, European countries dismembered Africa by carving her up  into pieces and sharing her among themselves.
Sesanti, Simphiwe
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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Copy Pronouns: Case Studies from African Languages

open access: yes, 2015
This volume is a collection of articles which may be used as a reference work for the comparative study of African pronoun systems. The book is an original and new contribution insofar as it is a first collection of articles which focus on languages that
Blench, Roger   +2 more
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Coping With Production Risk: Effects of Sown Plant Diversity on the Attractiveness of Crop Insurance in Grasslands

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry: A poetic deconstruction of Psalms 23, 51 and 137

open access: yesTheologia Viatorum
This scholarly discourse concentrates on the poetic deconstruction of Psalms 23, 51 and 137, elucidating the affluent literary devices and profound themes within these biblical poems.
Mlamli Diko, Adelheid Bechtold Celliers
doaj   +1 more source

Borrowing and Dictionary Compilation: The Case of the Indigenous South African Languages

open access: yes, 2010
Borrowing occurs when a language adds a word from another language to its own lexicon. Languages in neighbouring regions often borrow from each other. In South Africa, there are over nine indigenous languages, in addition to Afrikaans and English, all of
Mafela, MJ, MJ Mafela
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-apartheid representations of youth in the Zulu novel Kungasa ngifile

open access: yesLiterator, 2004
In this article representation of black African youth in the Zulu novel “Kungasa ngifile” is examined. The view is presented that the novel, though seeming to be politically neutral, deals with images of the youth that have ideological concerns in terms ...
N.S. Zulu
doaj   +1 more source

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