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Assessment of the nitrogen fertilizer split-application on maize grain yield and profitability on Nitisols of South-Kivu, Eastern D.R. Congo

CABI Agriculture and Bioscience
Soil depletion constitutes a major challenge for agriculture and food security in highlands of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of the split-application of nitrogen fertilizer on grain yield and ...
Patient M. Zamukulu, Espoir M. Bagula, Jean M. Mondo, Géant B. Chuma, Gisèle M. Bulonza, Sarah Mwaluke, Yannick Mugumaarhahama, Céphas B. Mwimangire, Eloïs L. Cinyabuguma, Antoine K. Lubobo, Gustave N. Mushagalusa   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cheikh Anta Diop, figure de la Décolonialité [PDF]

Akofena, 2022
Résumé : Cheikh Anta Diop (1923-1986) est un érudit sénégalais, l'un des plus connus d'Afrique du XXe siècle. Ses travaux font de l’Afrique un sujet historique et la sortent ainsi de la sujétion, de la nuit noire dans laquelle l’avaient plongée les ...
Kouadio YAO
doaj  

One health: a concept led by Africa, with global benefits [PDF]

, 2015
Titus Mlengeya Kamani and others argue that Africa is well positioned and equipped to conduct and benefit from an integrated ...
Buza, J., Haydon, D., Kamani, T.M., Kazwala, R., Keyyu, J., Lankester, F., Mfinanga, S.   +6 more
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A reappraisal of the Middle to Later Stone Age prehistory of Morocco Réévaluer la préhistoire du Maroc, du Middle Stone Age au Later Stone Age

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Over the last 25 years, perceptions of the early prehistory of Northwest Africa have undergone radical changes due to new fieldwork projects and a corresponding growth in scientific interest in the region. Much of this work has been focused in Morocco, known for its extremely rich fossil and archaeological records in caves and rock shelters.
Nick Barton, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Stacy Carolin, Louise Humphrey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’image descriptive de l’Afrique traditionnelle dans L’Antédestin de Dramane Konaté [PDF]

Akofena, 2022
Résumé : La tradition est l’essence de l’existence de l’Afrique noire. Elle incarne d’innombrables valeurs presqu’indélébiles comparables à l’inhérence de la couleur de la peau de l’Africain.
Alidieta DRABO
doaj  

Building and Contesting post-war Housing in Dakar [PDF]

, 2015
After the Second World War, European welfare planning was transposed to the African colonies. With regard to housing this meant a true turning point in urban policy.
Beeckmans, Luce
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Fluctuating futures: coming of age in the biggest social housing neighbourhood in Milan Futurs fluctuants : passage à l’âge adulte dans le plus grand quartier de logements sociaux de Milan

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article – part of a six‐year ethnographic research project – aims to deconstruct and ‘decolonize’ essentialized notions of adolescence and youth, primarily through the application of the category of intersectionality. The research focuses on a series of educational initiatives implemented in San Siro, one of Milan's largest public housing ...
Paolo Grassi
wiley   +1 more source

‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

Reduced bio-efficacy of permethrin EC impregnated bednets against an Anopheles gambiae strain with oxidase-based pyrethroid tolerance [PDF]

, 2004
BACKGROUND: Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are an integral component of malaria control programmes in Africa. How much pyrethroid resistance in malaria vectors will impact on the efficacy of ITNs is controversial.
Chandre, Fabrice, Etang, Josiane, Guillet, Pierre, Manga, Lucien   +3 more
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Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines ...
Stephanie Lämmert
wiley   +1 more source