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Patterns of wild meat and other protein consumption in the periphery of Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract In Central Africa, human activities are severely impacting terrestrial and aquatic wildlife, threatening the food security of millions of people. Accordingly, sustainable use of wildlife is crucial for the nutrition and livelihoods of many rural communities in the region.
Zolo Admettons, Mattia Bessone, Josué Ausse Baraka, Josué Engombe Botomia, Espérance Miezi, Bénédicte Nsilu, Jonathan Nkamisha Mukole, Michel Opelele Omeno, Jean Semeki Ngabinzeke, Barbara Fruth   +9 more
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Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Aspects of Variation in the Eastern Cape: Complexities of Xhosa Language Use

Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2018
This paper presents the results of a micro-variation project in which linguistic diversity of the Eastern Cape of South Africa is examined. It shows that regional variation in the Xhosa dialect cluster is minimal and that many older forms and sounds that
Eva-Marie Bloom Ström
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The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans. [PDF]

, 2009
Africa is the source of all modern humans, but characterization of genetic variation and of relationships among populations across the continent has been enigmatic. We studied 121 African populations, four African American populations, and 60 non-African
A. A. Awomoyi, A. Froment, A. Ranciaro, A. T. Juma, Batini, Behar, Bereir, C. Ehret, C. Wambebe, Campbell, Cann, Cerny, Chen, Coia, Destro-Bisol, F. A. Reed, F. R. Friedlaender, Forster, Forster, Friedlaender, G. Lema, G. S. Pretorius, H. Mortensen, Hassan, J. B. Hirbo, J. H. Moore, J. L. Weber, J.-M. Bodo, Jakobsson, K. Powell, Li, Lind, M. A. Thera, M. Ibrahim, M. J. Kotze, M. W. Smith, O. Doumbo, Parra, Parra, Patin, Patterson, Pritchard, Pritchard, Reed, Reynolds, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Rosenberg, S. A. Omar, S. A. Tishkoff, S. M. Williams, Salas, Scozzari, Semino, Sirugo, Smith, T. B. Nyambo, Tishkoff, Tishkoff, Verdu, Wang, Wood   +61 more
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Beyond Bloodlines: A Review of Succession Planning and Generational Continuity in African Family Businesses

Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents a systematic review of 107 peer‐reviewed articles on succession planning in African family businesses, offering a conceptual reframing of succession as an institutionally embedded process rather than a discrete managerial task. Moving beyond proceduralist and Eurocentric paradigms, the review integrates institutional theory,
Augustine Okeke
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A Method for Resourcing Sustainable Cities in Rwanda Through Informal Settlement Upgrading

npj Urban Sustainability
Meeting targets under SDG 11 depends on qualitative improvements implemented through planning and design processes. In many less developed countries (LDCs), the upgrading of informal settlements has potential to make significant gains towards SDG 11, but
Garret Gantner, Costanza La Mantia
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Ideophones in Sena (Bantu, Mozambique)

Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
Based on a recently collected fieldwork corpus, this paper offers an overview of ideophones in Sena, a Bantu language spoken along the Lower Zambezi River in central Mozambique.
Rozenn Guérois
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Pan-Africanism: a contorted delirium or a pseudonationalist paradigm? Revivalist critique [PDF]

, 2013
This essaic-article goes against established conventions that there is anything ethno-cultural (and hence national) about the so-called African tribes.
Albert C., Anthony D. S., Assmann J., Assmann J., Chinweizu I, Chinweizu I., Christopher E., Diop C. A., Diop C. A., Faulkner R. O., Godfrey M, Gray J, Hannah V., Jacquin-Berdal D., Kalopoulos M., Karenga M., Teeter E., Teeter E., Vandier J., William C.   +19 more
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BaYaka forager and Bantu fisher‐farmer adolescent engagement with intensifying market integration in the Republic of the Congo Participation des adolescents BaYaka chasseurs‐cueilleurs et Bantous pêcheurs‐agriculteurs à l'intégration croissante au marché en République du Congo

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
A substantial body of anthropological research has investigated how subsistence communities engage with market‐based economies. In this study, we contribute to this body of work by examining adolescent orientations towards intensifying market integration in the Congo Basin.
Sheina Lew‐Levy, Vidrige Kandza, Haneul Jang, Francy Kiabiya Ntamboudila, Derlan Bihoundou Mouketou, Chelvin Destin Siassia Vindou, Evrahd Ngalekandza, Brel Koubemba, Aise Pie X Lendzingoud, Roglane Goulou, Amandine Visine, Adam Howell Boyette, Lee T. Gettler   +12 more
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“The Father is also the Sister”: A Non-binary Gendered History of Matrilineal Bantu Communities

Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2023
Gender, as broadly construed by Bantu-speaking peoples, is not fixed in the same way that it is in the West. This kind of gender flexibility is counter to binary gender concepts which classify gender into two separate, opposite, and rigid forms of ...
Christine Saidi
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The long and short of verb alternations in Mauritian Creole and Bantu languages [PDF]

, 2015
Mauritian Creole displays an alternation between a short and a long form of the verb, which is reminiscent of the conjoint–disjoint alternation found in some eastern Bantu languages.
van der Wal, Jenneke, Veenstra, Tonjes
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